At 44, Ashanti FINALLY Respond To Pregnancy Rumors! And It’s Just As We Suspected.

Insiders told the Jasmine Brand on Wednesday that the musicians are expecting their second child together after secretly getting married last December.

 

 

Nelly and Ashanti attend Usher's "Coming Home" Album Release Event on February 14, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reps for the couple weren’t immediately available to Page Six for comment.

The “Foolish” songstress’ pregnancy comes months after she and the rapper welcomed son Kareem Kenkaide Hayne on July 18.

At the time, Ashanti gushed over seeing her newborn’s face for the first time during an interview with “Entertainment Tonight.”

“I cried it was just so emotional and spiritual at the same time. Having a vision of this moment for so long … it was such an electrifying feeling,” she said.

Nelly and Ashanti attend as Nelly celebrates Halloween and his 50th birthday at Guardian Works on November 1st, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The “Happy” singer also took to Instagram to share she had been “waiting to be a mom for a long time now.”

Nelly, 50, and Ashanti, 44, first met at a Grammy Awards press conference in 2003, and have worked on multiple projects together, including their 2008 track “Body on Me” and 2024 song “This Lil’ Game We Play.”

Ashanti and Nelly attend I Love R&B Mondays at Greenhaus ATL on October 30, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia.

They dated for a decade before parting ways in 2013 and publicly reuniting in Las Vegas for a boxing match in April 2023.

Nelly and Ashanti attend Usher’s “Coming Home” Album Release Event on February 14, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Ashanti and Nelly pose together.

That September, the “Air Force Ones” rapper confirmed he was dating the Grammy winner, admitting their rekindled romance “surprised” them.

He told “Love & Hip Hop” stars Rasheeda and Kirk Frost, “Sometimes being separate you understand one another more.”

Ashanti and Nelly at the Baby2Baby Gala Presented by Paul Mitchell held at the Pacific Design Center on November 9, 2024 in West Hollywood, Los Angeles.

According to a marriage license obtained by Page Six, Nelly and Ashanti secretly wed in the rapper’s hometown of St. Louis, Mo., on Dec. 27, 2023.

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