Ashanti And Nelly Are Engaged, Expecting First Baby Together: 'An Amazing Experience'
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Ashanti has revealed that she’s engaged to Nelly and the two are expecting their first child together.
On Wednesday, the “Foolish” singer revealed that she’s pregnant through a witty Instagram clip where her mother and manager, Tina Douglas, asks her how much time she’ll need before a show.
“I’m gonna need about nine months,” Ashanti says, looking into the camera.
She confirmed the pregnancy news to Essence and also announced her engagement to the “Country Grammar” rapper, with whom she reunited last year after years of on-and-off involvement.
“This new year of my life is such a blessing full of love, hope, and anticipation,” Ashanti said. “Motherhood is something that I have looked forward to, and sharing this with my family, fiancé, and loyal fans, who have been so supportive of my career, is an amazing experience.”
Nelly and Ashanti met at the 2003 Grammy Awards and dated intermittently for about a decade until their breakup in 2013.
They sparked rumors that they were back together last year, and eventually the two each confirmed their reunion.
“Yeah, we cool again,” Nelly said on Philo TV’s “Boss Moves” in 2023. “We cool again. I think it surprised both of us, though. It wasn’t anything that was, like, I don’t think planned. I think we both was pretty much doing what we do. But sometimes being separate, you understand one another more.”
Ashanti, for her part, brought a clutch featuring a 20-year-old picture of the couple to the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards.
The couple’s baby will be Ashanti’s first child, while Nelly, real name Cornell Haynes Jr., is already a father of four: his daughter Chanelle, his son Cornell III, and Shawn and Sydney Thomas, siblings he adopted after his sister Jackie Donahue died of leukemia in 2005.
