I’m opening with the one that still breaks the internet. In Valerian (2017) Rihanna’s shape-shifter Bubble works the cabaret pole for Dane DeHaan, flipping from a nurse costume to a lace catsuit, latex, roller-skate glam and a feathered showgirl bikini. Nearly three minutes of pure tease.
Rihanna as Bubble in Valerian: the cabaret pole dance. Ranked scenes, 14 clips, 6 official music videos, 67 photos, Nico’s take and an FAQ below.
Note: Real, released material only: her film and TV scenes, official music videos, Savage X Fenty shows, magazine shoots and red carpet looks. Every photo here was taken when she was an adult. There is no real Rihanna sex tape, and we don’t pretend there is.
Updated: November 1, 2026 (Bangkok). Brand-new Rihanna hub with a jump menu, ranked scenes, 14 clips, music videos, six galleries and the latest A$AP Rocky gossip. The old Rihanna page now points here.
I’ve been behind the camera since 2001 and shot 2,000+ scenes, and here’s what most stars never learn: the tease sells harder than the reveal. Rihanna built a billion-dollar empire on exactly that. This is every real moment she has let us see, from Bubble’s pole in Valerian to her own lingerie runway.
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Rihanna (Robyn Rihanna Fenty) is a Barbadian singer, actress and businesswoman, born on 20 February 1988 in Saint Michael, Barbados. She broke through on Def Jam in 2005 and went on to S&M, Rude Boy, Pour It Up, Work and Wild Thoughts, then built Fenty Beauty and the lingerie brand Savage X Fenty. Her sexiest screen moments are the cabaret dance in Valerian (2017), her Marion Crane in Bates Motel (2017), her music videos, and the runway specials she stars in for her own lingerie line.
Rihanna Pole Dance in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Film: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017), directed by Luc Besson | Role: Bubble, a shape-shifting “glamopod” performer in Paradise Alley | What you see: a cabaret and pole dance with costume changes, and a bare-back reveal
Valerian (Dane DeHaan) walks into a cabaret run by Jolly the Pimp (Ethan Hawke) and Bubble performs for him, changing body and outfit with every beat: nurse, lace catsuit, latex, roller-skate glam and a feathered showgirl bikini. It is the most revealing thing she has done in a feature film.
Cabaret and pole dance as Bubble (2:49)
The full Valerian cabaret number. Rihanna’s Bubble spins upside down on the pole, then morphs look after look: white nurse, sheer black lace bodysuit, latex dominatrix, stars-and-stripes skater and a jewelled showgirl bikini, before the blonde bombshell talk with Valerian. Her sexiest minutes on the big screen.
Bare back in a top hat (0:19)
Back to Valerian (2017). Rihanna’s Bubble stands with her back to the camera in a black top hat, bare-backed with a jewelled choker, before the reveal on the cabaret stage. Twenty seconds, but that bare spine is all anyone remembers.
Rihanna Shower Scene and Bed Scene in Bates Motel (2017)
Series: Bates Motel (A&E), season 5 (2017) | Role: Marion Crane, the part Janet Leigh made famous in Psycho | What you see: a bed scene with Sam Loomis (Austin Nichols), then undressing and the shower scene
The final season of Bates Motel retells Psycho, and Rihanna’s Marion is a woman on the run with her boss’s cash who checks into the wrong motel. The show plays with the famous shower: Norman (Freddie Highmore) watches her undress through the peephole, she showers, and this time she leaves alive. It was her first big TV role.
Undressing and the shower scene (2:50)
The shower everyone was waiting for. Norman watches through the peephole as Rihanna’s Marion undresses in her motel room, holding her arms across her bare chest, then she steps under the water in the tiled shower. The twist: in this version Marion walks away alive.
In bed with Sam Loomis (1:20)
Bates Motel season 5. Rihanna’s Marion Crane lies in bed with Sam Loomis (Austin Nichols), then rests on his bare chest, bare-shouldered and red-haired, kissing him across the pillows in the lamp light. Short, warm and the closest she has come to a full sex scene on screen.
Rihanna’s Sexiest Music Videos: S&M, Pour It Up, Rude Boy, Needed Me & Work
Nobody in pop has pushed YouTube’s age gate harder. These are the official videos from her own channel, embedded straight from YouTube.
S&M (2011)
Latex, ball gags, a press conference on leashes and Rihanna wrapped in cling film. Directed by Melina Matsoukas, S&M was banned in about a dozen countries and YouTube put it behind an 18+ wall. Still the kinkiest video a pop star of her size has ever released.
Pour It Up (2013)
Rihanna on a throne in a strip-club set, twerking in a bra, a G-string and thigh-high boots while money rains down, then a slow grind in a pool. Pole dancers, cash and zero apologies.
Rude Boy (2010)
Another Matsoukas video: zebra stripes everywhere, Jamaican dancehall colours and Rihanna rolling her hips in skin-tight bodysuits. The moment the good-girl Rihanna was gone for good.
Needed Me (2016)
Directed by Harmony Korine in Miami: a strip club, a gun and Rihanna in lingerie and a sheer robe. Mean, sexy and violent in equal measure.
Work (2016) with Drake
Two versions, both pure grind: a packed Toronto dancehall and a pink-lit room where she dances on Drake. The song that made every club sweat in 2016.
Rihanna and Laetitia Casta in Te Amo (2010)
Music video: Te Amo (2010), from the album Rated R | With: French model and actress Laetitia Casta | What you see: a slow seduction in a French château, with near-kisses and close dancing
In the song a woman falls for Rihanna and won’t take no for an answer. Casta plays her, and the video turns it into four minutes of looks, touches and red-lit tension.
Te Amo (2010) is pure tension. Rihanna in a black hat and a heavy chain necklace circles Laetitia Casta through a red-lit château, crawling across the floor, pinned against walls and leaning in for kisses that never quite land. Four minutes of slow-burn seduction.
Rihanna in Wild Thoughts (2017)
Music video: DJ Khaled – Wild Thoughts (2017), featuring Rihanna and Bryson Tiller | What you see: a sheer teal dress on a red bed, and a red ruffle crop top at the street party
The song samples Santana’s Maria Maria, and the video was shot in Miami. Rihanna changes from the carnival-red ruffles to a sheer teal dress that keeps slipping off her shoulders.
Sheer teal dress on the bed (0:16)
Wild Thoughts (2017) bedroom moment. Rihanna sprawls across a red bed in a sheer teal ruffled dress, one hand in her hair, then peers over heart-shaped sunglasses and twirls out of the room. A quick hit of skin, silk and that Barbados attitude.
Teal dress dance (0:14)
More Wild Thoughts (2017). The teal dress slips off both shoulders as Rihanna sways against a jungle-green wall, spins until the silk flies, then drops back onto the red bed, staring straight into the camera. Hot, humid and impossible to skip.
Red ruffles with DJ Khaled (0:39)
Wild Thoughts (2017) street party. Rihanna dances through the crowd in a red ruffled crop top and patterned skirt, next to DJ Khaled in his floral shirt, under neon and string lights. Belly out, hips rolling, the whole carnival watching her.
Rihanna in Savage X Fenty: Runway Shows and Lingerie Campaigns
Brand: Savage X Fenty, launched in May 2018 | Shows: Vol. 1 (2019), Vol. 2 (2020), Vol. 3 (2021) and Vol. 4 (2022) on Prime Video | What you see: Rihanna in her own lingerie on stage and in the campaigns
Rihanna doesn’t just sell the lingerie, she models it. Every Savage X Fenty special ends with her on stage, and her own campaigns put her in lace, mesh, garters and corsets. Her newest drop is the “Satin Secrets” reel from 30 October 2026, which we broke down piece by piece in Rihanna’s Satin Secrets robe story.
Vol. 1 (2019): sheer black mesh (0:17)
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 1 (2019). Rihanna struts out in a sheer black mesh top and tiny shorts, skin glowing through the net, then poses on a lit plinth while her dancers drop into formation around her. She owns the stage, the brand and the room. Short, sharp and very see-through.
Vol. 2 (2020): purple lace in the flowers (0:14)
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 (2020). Rihanna lounges inside a wall of purple flowers in a plunging lace bodysuit and corset, dancers in matching lingerie writhing around her, before the camera pulls back to the giant tree set. Lush, sweaty and dripping in lace.
Vol. 4 (2022): blue corset in the smoke (0:34)
Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 (2022). Rihanna stands in purple smoke in a blue corset with black lace spilling over her chest, big curls flying as she rolls her shoulders and stares down the lens. Pure dominance in lingerie.
Savage X Fenty lingerie photos
16 frames from her own campaigns: neon green lace by the palm trees, white lace in the bedroom, the high-rise rooftop shoot, Valentine’s red lace and the mint lingerie set.
She also cast Lizzo in a Savage X Fenty show.
Rihanna Topless and Nude Magazine Shoots: Lui, GQ, Esquire and Vogue Brasil
- Esquire, November 2011: named Esquire’s Sexiest Woman Alive, shot nude by Russell James, with leaves as the only cover. Emilia Clarke took the same title four years later.
- GQ (US), December 2012: “Obsession of the Year” at GQ Men of the Year, shot by Mario Sorrenti in panties, open shirts and a Rick Owens top.
- British GQ, December 2013: the 25th-anniversary issue, art-directed by Damien Hirst. She posed topless as Medusa with live snakes for hair, photographed by Mariano Vivanco.
- Vogue Brasil, May 2014: shot by Mariano Vivanco in a fishing village on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro. She called it the best shoot of her life, and the behind-the-scenes video is below.
- Lui, May 2014: her most explicit cover. Mario Sorrenti shot her for the French men’s magazine in nothing but pink bikini bottoms and a bucket hat, nipple piercing on show.
Vogue Brasil behind the scenes (1:48)
Vogue Brasil (2014), behind the scenes in Ilha Grande. Rihanna kneels topless on the sand in white bottoms, poses in a giant straw hat with nothing but a bikini bottom, struts in an open jacket and briefs and leans out of a fisherman’s window. Raw, sunny and barely dressed.
Esquire behind the scenes (1:35)
Esquire shoot, behind the scenes. Rihanna arches in a locker room, peels a grey tank over white briefs, sits in white fishnets and a Greek-key waistband, then hangs from gym rings in white underwear with wet hair. Ninety seconds of sweat-slick tease.
Topless and nude shoot photos
14 frames from her magazine work: the locker room and gym-ring shoot, black-and-white topless portraits, the red-haired bed shot and her CR Fashion Book cover set.
Rihanna See-Through and Sheer Red Carpet Looks
The big one is the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards, where Anna Wintour gave her the Fashion Icon Award and she wore a sheer fishnet Adam Selman gown covered in more than 200,000 Swarovski crystals, with a matching do-rag and a fur stole. Next to it: sheer mesh at Paris Fashion Week, a see-through black dress on a Miami date night and the silvery gown at the Wakanda Forever premiere in 2022.
Ocean’s 8 (2018): the red dress at the Met (0:08)
Ocean’s 8 (2018). Rihanna’s hacker Nine Ball turns up at the Met Gala heist in a red off-the-shoulder ruffled gown and long braids, strolling through the crowd of tuxedos. Not nude, just a reminder she can steal a scene fully dressed.
Rihanna at Crop Over: Barbados Carnival Costumes
Every year she can, Rihanna goes home for Crop Over and parades on Kadooment Day in a feathered, jewelled carnival costume that is basically a bikini with wings. These are her most-searched beach-body photos for a reason.
Rihanna Braless, Sheer and Instagram Candids
On set in a sheer white robe in 2016, a gold sheer slip behind the scenes, a braless pink top in New York, her topless Instagram tease from 2021, the Savage X Fenty Pride drop and the pool shots.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky: The Gossip
They were friends and collaborators for years: Rocky opened for her Diamonds World Tour in 2013. They started dating in late 2019, went public in 2020, and in May 2021 Rocky called her “the love of my life” in GQ. The baby news came in public moments: her second pregnancy at the Super Bowl LVII halftime show in February 2023 and her third at the Met Gala in May 2025. They now have three children.
Are they married? Rocky has called himself her “husband” and she keeps stepping out with a ring on her wedding finger, but neither has confirmed a wedding. The newest gossip is music: Rocky says she’s back in the studio, and songwriter Jozzy says she is “doing a Rihanna album”. There is still no title and no date.
Before Rocky, her headline romances were Drake (on and off for years) and the Saudi businessman Hassan Jameel, whom she dated from 2017 to early 2020.
Rihanna and Rocky photos
Here’s my take. Rihanna is the only pop star who turned “almost naked” into a business plan. S&M and Pour It Up got her age-gated, Lui and GQ gave her topless covers, and then she took the whole thing in-house. With Savage X Fenty, every lace bra she peels down for the camera sells out by morning.
That isn’t luck, it’s direction. On a set I’d call it control: she decides how much skin, where the light falls and when to cut. As for A$AP Rocky, my bet is the ring is real and she simply doesn’t owe anyone the paperwork.
The fake “sex tape” crowd never understood her. She never needed one. Watch Bubble on that pole and tell me I’m wrong, then go see her Satin Secrets reel.
— Nico
Rihanna FAQ
Has Rihanna ever done a nude scene?
Not a full nude sex scene. Her most revealing screen moments are the cabaret dance in Valerian (2017) and the undressing and shower scene in Bates Motel season 5 (2017). Her nude and topless work is in magazines: Esquire (2011), British GQ (2013), Vogue Brasil (2014) and Lui (2014).
Is there a Rihanna sex tape?
No. No real Rihanna sex tape exists. Videos sold under that name show other women or are fakes.
What is Rihanna’s sexiest music video?
S&M (2011) is the kinkiest and was age-restricted on YouTube. Pour It Up (2013) is the strip-club one, and Rude Boy, Needed Me, Work and Wild Thoughts are close behind.
Did Rihanna pose topless for Lui magazine?
Yes. She was on the cover of the May 2014 issue of the French magazine Lui, shot by Mario Sorrenti, wearing only pink bikini bottoms and a bucket hat.
Who does Rihanna play in Bates Motel?
She plays Marion Crane in season 5 (2017), the role Janet Leigh played in Psycho. Her shower scene has a twist: Marion survives.
Who does Rihanna play in Valerian?
She plays Bubble, a shape-shifting performer who dances for Valerian in a cabaret and changes costume with every move.
Does Rihanna model her own Savage X Fenty lingerie?
Yes. She appears in the Savage X Fenty shows on Prime Video and in many of the brand’s campaigns, including the Satin Secrets reel in October 2026.
Are Rihanna and A$AP Rocky married?
Not officially. Rocky has called himself her husband and she has been seen wearing a ring on her wedding finger, but neither has confirmed a wedding. They have three children together.
How old is Rihanna?
She was born on 20 February 1988, so she is 38 in November 2026.
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