Originally appeared on E! Online
Cardi B is stunning and shining in her latest chapter.
After all, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper welcomed a baby boy with boyfriend Stefon Diggs, she announced on social media Thursday.
“Starting over is never easy but it’s been so worth it,” Cardi B wrote on Instagram alongside a video of her strutting down a white hallway in an all-black ensemble. “I brought new music and a new album to the world! A new baby into my world, and one more reason to be the best version of me, one more reason to love me more than anything else or anyone else so I can continue giving my babies the love and life they deserve.”
And the MC also provided insight into where her focus lies now that she’s welcomed the new addition, saying, “This next chapter is Me vs. Me!”
“I’ve started prepping for tour getting my body right getting my mind right,” she said. “There’s nothing thats gonna stop me from giving you guys the performance of a life time!”
And Cardi B further celebrated her latest arrival in a separate post to her Instagram Story, where she admired a pair of light baby pink strollers. “I just had a boy,” she said in the clip, “but I love this stroller!”
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As Cardi B — who shares kids Kulture, 7, Wave, 4, and Blossom, 13 months, with estranged husband Offset—embraces her latest motherhood milestone, she’s also been focusing on her career.
“I feel very strong,” the 33-year-old shared on CBS Mornings in September. “I feel very powerful that I’m doing all this work, but I’m doing all this work while I’m creating a baby.”
Indeed, that month she released her second studio album Am I the Drama?, with her Little Miss Drama Tour set to kick off in February. And the New England Patriots wide receiver — who is also dad to daughter Nova, 9, from a previous relationship — has been her MVP during this major life moment.
“He makes me feel very confident,” Cardi B gushed. “Feeling safe is feeling confident, feeling like you could do it. And it makes you feel like you could take over the world.”
“Me and my man, we’re very supportive of each other,” she added. “We’re in the same space in our careers. I feel like we’re really great, and one of the best at what we do.”
But the “Money” rapper is also glad to be postpartum after navigating the realities of pregnancy.
“I’m uncomfortable when I sit, when I lay down, when I stand up,” she wrote on X in October alongside a gif of a meme of Anthony Anderson crying. “I can’t take this no more.”
Nonetheless, for Cardi B, motherhood has hit all the right notes.
“It turned me into a real woman,” she told Billboard in September. “I was like, ‘What makes a woman? Her body? Her cooking?’ It’s her maturity and her thinking. If I didn’t have kids, I wouldn’t sacrifice so much.”
“I do everything for my kids,” she continued. “I’m the only provider and you know what? Ain’t no complaining about it. I love them so much and they ground me. Sometimes I be so exhausted and it’s not even about work, it’s just life. If you think when you get rich you’re going to stop working, you’re never going to stop working.”
She revealed the simple idea that she wants her kids to take away from their childhood. As she put it, “I want my kids to be like, ‘My mom made sure I had everything that I wanted.'”
