With a booming career, high-profile marriage to rapper Jay-Z and countless accolades, motherhood just seemed like the next step for Beyonce, right? Former Destiny’s Child members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams didn’t always think so.
“We were very shocked,” admits Williams to PEOPLE on the red carpet of the 2012 BET Honors.
”We were laughing with each other the other day and she was like, ‘Can y’all believe it? I was the anti – like no children for me,’ and she’s the first one [of us to have a baby]. So it was so amazing to see her.”
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Williams says the new mommy is doing fabulous and has what it takes to be a great mother because of her “compassion for people and humanity, period.” Rowland added that Beyonce was “born to be a mother.”
The 30-year-old singer gave birth to Blue Ivy Carter Jan. 7.