Ashanti Shows Off Postpartum Body Weeks After Welcoming Son With Nelly

Ashanti is “so proud” of her postpartum physique 4 weeks after she and her husband, Nelly, welcomed their first child collectively.

“Humorous how life’s plans aren’t … at all times on time,” Ashanti, 43, jokingly wrote by way of Instagram on Wednesday, August 21, referencing her childbirth expertise. “I’ve been ready to be a mother for a very long time now however nothing might put together me for EVERYTHING motherhood brings!”

She added, “That is what postpartum appears like. I’m loving these tremendous cozy @fridamom shorts! I’m so happy with my physique for giving me my child, child, child, child, child.”

Ashanti uploaded a selfie of herself, carrying a pair of Frida’s postpartum shorts and an identical white crop prime. She accessorized her look with a large diamond chain and blue-and-white silk gown.

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The singer additionally uploaded a video taken on the identical time.

“You haven’t any thought what this physique can do,” she quipped, resting a hand on her stomach.

Ashanti gave delivery to son Kareem Kenkaide on July 18, the couple’s first child collectively. The “Scorching in Herre” rapper, 49, additionally shares daughter Chanelle and son Cornell Haynes III with ex Chanetta Valentine and beforehand adopted his late sister, Jackie Donahue’s two kids after her 2005 loss of life.

Us Weekly broke the information in December 2023 that Ashanti and Nelly have been anticipating a child. Amid Ashanti’s being pregnant, she and Nelly secretly received engaged and later married.

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“This new 12 months of my life is such a blessing full of affection, hope and anticipation,” she advised Essence in April. “Motherhood is one thing that I’ve regarded ahead to.”

Ashanti and Nelly initially dated on and off between 2003 and 2013 after assembly at a Grammy Awards press convention. They reconciled ten years later in 2023.

“Yeah, we cool once more,” Nelly mentioned throughout a September 2023 look on the “Boss Strikes with Rasheeda” podcast. “I believe it shocked each of us although. It wasn’t something that I don’t suppose was deliberate.”

Previous to getting again collectively, Ashanti noticed Nelly for the primary time in years at a music competition in 2021. She was a visitor of Fats Joe, whereas Nelly had his personal set on the competition. Whereas backstage, the now-couple shared a hug.

“You realize what, the loopy half is he didn’t say something,” Ashanti mentioned throughout a November 2021 interview on The Angie Martinez Present. “To start with, I didn’t know he was going to be there. I advised Joe, like, ‘Joe, why you ain’t inform me he was gonna be there?’ He was like, ‘Sis, I do know, it’s horrible.’ He was like, ‘I couldn’t threat you not coming when you knew he was going to be there.’”