37-year-old rap queen, Nicki Minaj is expecting their first child.
Minaj made the announcement on Monday July 20, by sharing her baby bump photos on Instagram and it came with the caption “#Preggers.”
The third photo the rapper shared came with the caption;
Love. Marriage. Baby carriage. Overflowing with excitement & gratitude. Thank you all for the well wishes.
Nicki Minaj ignited speculations of being pregnant when she stylishly hid her stomach with a baby shark in promotional snaps for Trollz last month. When one cheeky fan asked her for a baby bump pic, she responded: “The world aint ready yet.”
The rapper surprised fans in October 2019 when she posted about marrying Petty, an old friend of hers. She wrote then “Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty 10•21•19,” seemingly sharing her new legal name and the date she made it official with boyfriend, ex-con Kenneth Petty.
Fans rushed to the comments after she shared the joyful news.
One gushed: “No way you‘ll be the best mom.”
A second added: “Yesssssssssss I know this CONGRATULATIONS.”
Others echoed: “OMG” and “Yaas nickiii congrats.”
Minaj previously spoke about her desire to become a mother, telling Complex in 2014;
“[My biggest fear] is that I’ll become so consumed with work that I’ll forget to live my personal life to the fullest. If I’m done with my fifth album and I don’t have a child by then, no matter how much money I have, I would be disappointed, as a woman, because I feel like I was put here to be a mother. … I definitely will be married before I have my baby. I want to make sure I do it in that order. I’ve always felt like that since I was young; my mother always put that in my head.”
“I wonder if I’m going to be one of those women who balances my child with a career. I always said, ‘When I have my baby, it’s going to be all about my baby.’ I don’t want the child feeling like they don’t have all of my attention, so I always said, ‘I’m going to take a little break.’ But we’ll see.”