Nicki Minaj welcomes 1st child with husband Kenneth Petty
Nicki Minaj is officially a mom.
"Good Morning America" confirmed the "Yikes" rapper gave birth to her first child with husband Kenneth Petty on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
No other details, including the baby's name or sex, were available.
Minaj announced her pregnancy in July by sharing a few glammed-up Instagram photos of her showing her baby bump. "Preggers," she captioned an image of herself wearing curly yellow wig and a floral-themed bra.
"Love. Marriage. Baby carriage. Overflowing with excitement & gratitude," she captioned another photo of herself, reclining on a pink sofa. In yet another photo, Minaj wore a blue wig styled into an updo, while sporting a pink-and-blue ruffled top.
Minaj, 37, married her husband last October. The couple dated as teenagers and reconnected in 2018.
It's been a dream for the "Move Ya Hips" rapper to become a mother, which she revealed during a 2015 Cosmopolitan interview. Speaking about the future, she said she saw herself married with two children.
"Ten years from now, I will have two children, unless my husband wants three. I will be into my fitness a lot more, I will stop yo-yo dieting, and I'll be a housewife with careers that I can run from home," she said. "I want to be able to cook for my children, bake cookies for them, and watch them grow up. I just want to be Mommy. Take them to school, go to the parent-teacher conference, help them with their homework, and put their work on the refrigerator."
