Why Blue Ivy Carter Skipped the 2026 Met Gala
Beyoncé and Jay Z’s eldest daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, made her Met Gala debut this night at age 14. Wearing a white robe and matching jacket, the teenager posed for photographs on the carpet together with her mother and father.
The Carter household.
It was a shock that Blue Ivy attended; Starting in 2018, the Met Gala has enforced a strict 18 or older age coverage for attendees. “It’s not an appropriate event for people under 18,” organizers confirmed to Hollywood Reporter. Yet, the publication famous, “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 might be attending, telling Sherri Shepherd on the Sherry present, “I would love to see her go.”
In February, Blue Ivy and her sister Rumi Carter joined their mother and father at the Super Bowl in San Francisco.
Last 12 months, Blue Ivy and Rumi each 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 was still 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 loopy?’”
Blue Ivy, he added, is a proficient musician already. “Blue is a crazy pianist, but she won’t let us get her a teacher,” he mentioned. “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.”
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