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"Beyonce unflinchingly parses through fact and fiction about her high-profile pregnancy in Life Is But a Dream, her new HBO documentary that debuts later this month. As Us Weekly revealed on Thursday (Jan. 31), the 31-year-old opens up candidly in the film about the miscarriage she and husband Jay-Z endured before the successful January 2012 birth of daughter Blue Ivy.\r\nThe singer also puts to rest, once and for all, persistent speculation that she used a surrogate to carry Blue Ivy; conspiracy theorists harshly claimed that Beyonce even sported a false baby bump in the nine months leading up to her baby&amp;apos;s birth.\r\n\r\n&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;To think that I would be that vain,&amp;quot; the Grammy winner retorts in the film. &amp;quot;I respect mothers and women so much. To be able to experience bringing a child into this world, if you&amp;apos;re lucky and fortunate enough to experience that, I would never ever take that for granted.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nShe says of carrying a child: &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s the most powerful thing you can do in your life -- and especially after losing a child, the pain and trauma from that just makes it mean that much more . . . A child, you don&amp;apos;t play around with that.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nCalling her miscarriage the &amp;quot;saddest thing I&amp;apos;ve ever been through,&amp;quot; becoming a mother to Blue became a truly life-defining moment. &amp;quot;My baby was born out of a conflict in my life and that struggle had to be settled. I wouldn&amp;apos;t have gone through the pain if I hadn&amp;apos;t gone down the path,&amp;quot; she surmises.  &amp;quot;There&amp;apos;s something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You&amp;apos;re playing a part in a much bigger show and that&amp;apos;s what life is, it&amp;apos;s the greatest show on earth . . . I felt like god was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nBeyonce plays the Super Bowl halftime show in New Orleans this Sunday, Feb. 3. Singing the National Anthem live at a press conference for the event on Thursday (Jan. 31), she also acknowledged that she used a pre-recorded track while singing the same song. &amp;quot;I did not have time to rehearse with the orchestra. It was a live television show... Due to the weather, due to the delay, due to no proper sound check... I did not feel comfortable singing live.&amp;quot;\r\nStill, this Sunday, she &amp;quot;absolutely&amp;quot; will be singing live, she assured reporters."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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