Beyoncé and Jay Z’s eldest daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, made her Met Gala debut this evening at age 14. Wearing a white gown and matching jacket, the teenager posed for photos on the carpet with her parents.
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Blue Ivy poses on the carpet.
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The Carter family.
It was a surprise that Blue Ivy attended; starting in 2018, the Met Gala has enforced a strict 18 or older age policy for attendees. “It’s not an appropriate event for people under 18,” organizers confirmed to Hollywood Reporter. Yet, the publication noted, “there will be exceptions for those accompanied by their parents, which sounds right.” Last week, Blue Ivy’s grandmother Tina Knowles hinted that Blue Ivy could be attending, telling Sherri Shepherd on the Sherri show, “I would love to see her go.”
In February, Blue Ivy and her sister Rumi Carter joined their parents at the Super Bowl in San Francisco.
Last year, Blue Ivy and Rumi both joined Beyoncé on the Cowboy Carter tour. “That was amazing,” Jay Z told GQ of his daughter on tour. “On the first tour [the Renaissance World Tour, where Blue also appeared as backup dancer] there was a lot of conversation around her first performance, and she worked really hard to get to that point, but she still wasn’t going for it. She still was going through the motions. And then she just started fighting back. I saw her fight maybe for the first time in her life—like, not everything is just given to her and everything is easy. She fought for it. She’s almost on every number. I had to take her off some, like, ‘Man, you can’t be on that stage when she’s singing “Six-inch heels…,” are you crazy?’”
Blue Ivy, he added, is a talented musician already. “Blue is a crazy pianist, but she won’t let us get her a teacher,” he said. “She doesn’t want it to be a job. But she has perfect pitch. If she hears a song, she’ll be like ‘Play it again’ and then she’ll teach herself. That’s just talent, she doesn’t work at that. She worked at this, and it makes me proud that she fought for something that she really wanted to do. I don’t think we’re going to be able to get her off that stage now.”
Emily Burack (she/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.
