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Rihanna returns to Instagram


Rihanna has returned to Instagram.

The ‘Rude Boy’ hitmaker – who has been absent from the picture-sharing site since her account was temporarily disabled after she posted pictures of herself topless earlier this year – has reactivated her account and uploaded an upside down selfie.

According to The Sun newspaper, she posted the quirky shot along with the words: "Hellurrr #badgalback."

The 26-year-old singer also shared a cartoon illustration of herself in a bikini followed by the caption: "I’m back B****e$$$."

The Barbados-born beauty deactivated her page – which had over 12 million followers – in May this year after the site claimed topless images she had posted of herself from a shoot with French magazine Lui were in breach of their no nudity rule.

She was then forced to take to her Twitter account to confirm she had left the site and dismiss a fake account that had been set up in her name, which quickly amassed 47,000 followers.

Rihanna said at the time: "#PHAKE!!!! Let’s be clear, I do NOT have an IG account (sic)."

However, the company have denied they disabled the account over the racy images and claimed shutting down her page was a "mistake".

Instagram representative Alison Schumer said: "We briefly disabled the account by mistake and restored it quickly."