Beyoncé is full of love because she has "three hearts" inside of her body

The Destiny's Child star has filed the images under the caption "I have three hearts", which feature images of her sporting sheaths of wet material that cling to her curvaceous frame and expose her swelling stomach, whilst she clutches at one of her breasts and another of her showing Blue Ivy sweetly kissing her bump.

Another photo sees the 'Lemonade' hitmaker pose under water whilst she elegantly twists into various positions as red and orange fabric wrap around her body, which have been carefully positioned to ensure she doesn't expose too much flesh.

Another image shows Beyoncé posing in the nude and cradling her stomach.

Other pictures include the image the 'Dreamgirls' actress shared on her Instagram account last night of her sporting a burgundy bra, blue silk panties and a green veil, as well as pictures of her and her spouse over the years.

Beyoncé - who has been married to 'Hard Knock Life' rapper Jay Z for nine years - also shared a string of black and white images of her every month during her first pregnancy, as well as sentimental photographs of her 63-year-old mother Tina Knowles kneeling on a sandy beach when she was expecting her first daughter.

She captioned the image: "My mother pregnant with me, 1981. (sic)."

And has admitted she wonders whether her parent shared the same emotions she now feels as her brood is expanding.

One post read: "I look at photos of my mother when she was pregnant with m, does she feel how I feel now?"

Beyoncé also shared a poem about motherhood and how a woman's body changes over the nine months.

It read: "Mother is a cocoon where cells spark, limbs form, mother swells and stretched protect her child, mother has one foot in this world and one foot in the next, mother, black Venus."