'I kind of wish that someone had told me': Nicki Minaj says parenting got 'scarier' for her and husband Kenneth Petty
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Nicki Minaj is being honest about her parenting struggle! The ‘WAP’ rapper shared how difficult it was to raise her son during the pandemic times.
“I’m not going to lie, things got testy between us,” she told Vogue in an interview.
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Nicki shares mental struggle while raising her infant son with Petty
The star who welcomed her first baby in September 2020, added “Because of our history, I think we knew we’d get past it. But there’s no such thing as confidence in parenthood.”
“I kind of wish that someone had told me — although I’m sure I wouldn’t have been able to understand it — that there’s a level of anxiety, and you think it’s going to go away, but in fact it gets scarier,” the 40-year-old said.
“So often you think: I don’t know how to do this!," she said.
Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj, shared her only child with her husband Kenneth Petty.
The pair is yet to share the name of their three-year-old son, but they did reveal “Papa Bear,” as his nickname.
"You know what his name was supposed to be? I think I might still change it," she said on her fan radio in January 2021, as per ET.
"A lot of people said they liked it, but I said, 'Nah,' His name was going to be Ninja."
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Is Nicki Minaj a strict mother?
Minaj makes sure his young one is not into ‘unhealthy’ food habits. “I’m not in favor of body positivity if it means unhealthy bodies. That’s bull. It’s not believable, so let’s stop pretending,” she explained.
The ‘Tusa’ crooner could take responsibility at an early age. “I had adult burdens way too early, but I had tunnel fucking vision” Minaj said.
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The acting aspirant shared, “I literally told everybody that by the time I turned 19, I would be just asfamous as Halle Berry and Jada Pinkett, and no one could tell me any different. So when I went to auditions and didn’t get parts, I was shocked. I would sit by the phone thinking, I know they’re gonna call; everybody’s gonna love me and see how great I am. I didn’t get one callback. But at the same time I was like, Eff this shit, I need money.”
Minaj, who comes from a humble family, shared, “You figure out the value of money when you come from a different country, and then you don’t have what the other kids have.”
“Children know a lot more than you think regarding poverty," she added.