Cardi Bis ready to celebrate!
The pregnant rapper and her fiancé, Migos’Offset, opened up forRolling Stone‘s July cover story about their loving relationship and how they’re preparing fortheir daughter on the way.
“Don’t let Mama see youdrinking that red wine,” one of Offset’s family members tells her, referring to the latter’s mother. “She’s going to have a fit.”
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In fact, he was over the moonto learn she was pregnant. “He was like, ‘What? Are you sure?’ ” she recalls of their FaceTime conversation. “I said, ‘Yeah.’ And then he just started smiling really hard.”
“He said, ‘What do you mean, what are you going to do? You’re going to keep it,’ ”Cardi Bexplains of an initial conversation between the couple following the news. “A lot ofsuccessful women have kids, and a lot of successful artists have kids, but not at the peak of their career.”
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“I really wanted to tell them [Atlantic Records] myself, to sit down with themand tell everybody that I am pregnantand I have a plan,” she says.
ExplainsCardi Bofthe image she wants to upholdfollowing her daughter’s birth, “Just because I’m a mom, my street credibility’s not gone, my sex appeal’s not gone.”
As far as exposure on social media,Cardi Bis “iffy about” sharing her daughter with her followers in the same candid way she opens up about herself.
“My feelings get hurt when people onlinetalking about family members. I think I’ll kill somebody if somebody talking about my child like that,” she explains.
But she will make sure her daughter knows how to stand up for herself — namely, with boxing lessons. “I don’t want my kid to get picked on and she don’tknow how to defend herself,” saysCardi B. “I have a little brother and I always put in his head, since he was 2 years old, ‘Somebody hit you, you kick, you kick, you kick.’ ”
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” ‘You have a choice. I could maintain you. I could spoil you if you go to college. Orif you want to be independent, go ahead. When you a teenager and you 18, 19, you can’t get no job that pays you more than $200 a week,’ ”Cardi Bexplains of a potential future conversation.
source: people.com
