Beyonce slips into sexy swimsuit as she drapes herself in stars and stripes

Let's be honest, there aren't many people who rock a swimsuit better than Beyonce.

So it was fantastic to see that the singer chose a particularly sexy number for her shoot for Beat magazine.

The songstress, whose dad Matthew Knowles is charging wannabes $200 for a Queen Bey bootcamp , has reminded everyone that nobody comes close to the real thing.

Captured by photographer Ryan McGinley, the shoot sees Beyonce frolicking around the Hamptons in New York.

From lying in the grass wearing a summer dress, to draping a flag over her swimsuit-clad body, Bey easily makes sure to wow.

Even the fairly bizarre sight of the Crazy in Love hitmaker using a chicken as a prop is a wonder to behold.

While Beyonce isn't known for doing regular interviews, she's also taken part in a small Q&A for the issue.

In it she reveals her love of pizza with jalapenos and which era Beyonce she'd go as for Halloween.

She revealed: "Destiny’s Child Survivor era with the army fatigues. Or maybe Bootylicious with the gold tooth and pink tips in my hair."

Beyonce must have been pleased with the final outcome because she gushed about the cover on Instagram .

She wrote: "I sneezed on the BEAT and the BEAT got sicker."

And judging from the near-900,000 who have liked the post so far, we reckon her fans must be happy about it too.