Nicki Minaj announces she's pregnant along with her first child

Rapper says she is ‘overflowing with exhilaration & gratitude’ after revealing news on Instagram

Nicki Minaj is pregnant with her first toddler.

The rapper posted 3 pics on Instagram, one proposing the caption “#Preggers” and any other reading: “Love. Marriage. Baby carriage. Overflowing with exhilaration & gratitude. Thank you fascinated by the nicely desires.”

The father is Kenneth Petty, who Minaj married in 2019. “I didn’t think it would be as clean and calming as it is,” Minaj has said of her marriage. “Even if you’re not married, if you have someone that looks like your soulmate or a person who is familiar with you, it just makes you experience such as you’re on pinnacle of the world.”



Petty was convicted of attempted rape in 1995, and earlier this yr, he pleaded no longer guilty whilst charged with failing to sign in himself as a sex perpetrator after moving to California from New York, with an ordeal date yet to be set. He served a seven-yr sentence for a 2006 manslaughter conviction, stemming from a 2002 taking pictures.

Having by no means scored a No 1 hit in the US before, Minaj has topped america charts twice this year, first in May with her remix to Doja Cat’s single Say So, after which in June with Trollz, her tune with 6ix9ine. Her most recent album changed into Queen in 2018.