Beyoncé expecting twins

Beyoncé announced in an Instagram post on Wednesday that she and her husband Jay Z are expecting not one, but two new little ones.

“We would like to share our love and happiness. We have been blessed two times over,” the 35-year-old singer captioned a photo of herself cradling her sizeable bump, People.com reports.

“We are incredibly grateful that our family will be growing by two, and we thank you for your well wishes. – The Carters.”

The couple – who wed in 2008 – already share daughter Blue Ivy, 5.

This special announcement is a little more low-key than when Queen Bey broke the news of her first pregnancy during the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards by revealing her bump while performing “Love on Top.”

In fact, the singer has become known for her penchant for big surprises – like last year’s Lemonade album, which earned her an impressive nine nominations at the upcoming Grammy Awards.

Though usually private about her life with Jay Z, 47, Beyoncé has opened up about their struggle to conceive in the past. In her 2013 HBO documentary Life Is But a Dream, the singer revealed that she suffered a miscarriage.

“About two years ago, I was pregnant for the first time. And I hear the heartbeat, which was the most beautiful music I ever heard in my life,” she said.

During the pregnancy, Beyoncé said she “envisioned what my child would look like” and was feeling “very maternal.”

She also shared that, “being pregnant was very much like falling in love. You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There’s no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you, so of course you want to scream it out and tell everyone.”