NEED TO KNOW
- Cardi B is opening up about why she decided to keep her pregnancy private for a while
- During a pre-recorded interview with Gayle King for CBS Mornings, the Am I the Drama artist revealed that she’s pregnant and expecting her fourth baby — her first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs
- The rapper shares her daughters Blossom and Kulture and son Wave with rapper Offset
Cardi B is opening up about why she initially decided to keep her pregnancy news under wraps.
The Am I the Drama artist, 32, recently sat down with Gayle King for an exclusive interview with CBS Mornings, where she talked about her upcoming tour, her relationship with Stefon Diggs and her baby on the way. During the conversation, Cardi B spoke about why she decided to keep the exciting news of baby No. 4, her first with the professional football player, 31, to herself.
“I just was like, ‘Can I just say it on my own time?’ Like, I’m not hiding,” Cardi B told King, 70. “On my time, on my own terms. Let me close some deals first, you know what I’m saying? Let me close some deals first.”
“And it’s like, you don’t really want to say right away that you’re pregnant,” she added. “It’s like, ‘Let me see a couple of more sonograms. Let my baby be healthy.’ ”
In fact, Cardi B admitted to King that, as of the interview’s taping date, she hadn’t yet told her parents. She said that she planned to let them know before the interview aired.
“They just be looking at me,” she said. “I’m very scared of my parents!”
She noted that keeping the pregnancy news away from her parents had nothing to do with their feelings towards Diggs. In fact, the expectant mother revealed how her parents feel about her new beau.
“They like him, they do like him,” she shared.
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Diggs is already dad to an 8-year-old daughter named Nova, who was born in October 2016.
As for Cardi B, the Love & Hip Hop: New York alum shares three children with her estranged husband, rapper Offset. The former couple are parents to daughter Kulture Kiari, 7, son Wave Set, 4, and daughter Blossom Belle, whom they welcomed in September 2024. Offset is also a father to sons Jordan, 15, and Kody, 10, and daughter Kalea Marie, 10, from previous relationships.
In addition to her baby on the way, Cardi B is preparing to embark on a new project — a 32-city tour.
“By the way, now that I talked about it, y’all better get my album,” she said, addressing the audience. “Y’all wanted to know, right? Now you know. Now y’all can buy my album, so I can buy Pampers and diapers and all that type of stuff. I told y’all, now go support my album ’cause I’m a mother of four now!’ ”
While the soon-to-be mom of four didn’t reveal her exact due date or the sex of the baby, she told King that her baby will come ahead of her tour in February. The “Bodak Yellow” rapper assured the famed journalist that she’s “very ready” to put on a show.
“I’m very ready,” she said. “Even when I’m pregnant I’m very, very ready. Because I’m getting my body ready. I stretch it out. I stretch so as soon as I give birth, tour rehearsal starts. Yeah. I don’t come from weak women.”
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