I can’t help but draw analogies between Beyonce and female reproductive histology. I mean, it’s BEYONCE people. Here she is in all her glory at the 2017 Grammies:

She is adorned in a beautiful golden gown and her head is surrounded by a gorgeous radiating crown. Oh, AND she’s pregnant!

Beyonce is like a primary oocyte sitting in a Graafian follicle: her crown is the corona radiata, and her dress is made of gorgeous granulosa cells. At some point she no doubt sits on a little stool, which is the cumulus oophorus.

The metaphor continues! What happens during ovulation? Beyonce sheds her gown (the granulosa cells of the Graafian follicle) and leaves the ovary, making her way down that treacherous runway to the opening of the fallopian tube. So what’s left behind? Her gorgeous golden gown! That stays in the ovary, and becomes the corpus luteum (the “yellow body”).

I’m telling you, there’s even more here. If you watch the lecture recording, you’ll see I keep saying the Graafian follicle is juicy (maybe not the best description, but hey, that’s what it looks like to me!). And Bey is most certainly juicy – she straight up says it in Cozy!

Ughhh I love her so much.