{"id":97856,"date":"2024-05-17T01:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/pregnant-ashanti-reflects-on-why-this-mothers-day-was-so-special-yeah-yeah-i-know-im-late\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T01:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T01:03:20","slug":"pregnant-ashanti-reflects-on-why-this-mothers-day-was-so-special-yeah-yeah-i-know-im-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/17\/pregnant-ashanti-reflects-on-why-this-mothers-day-was-so-special-yeah-yeah-i-know-im-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Ashanti reflects on why this Mother&#8217;s Day was so special &#8216;Yeah, yeah, I know I&#8217;m late&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-05-17\" datetime=\"1715907800\" pubdate=\"\">17 May 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ashanti\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ashanti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashanti<\/a> felt &#8220;so special&#8221; on Mother&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Ashanti and Nelly are expecting their first baby together<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old singer is currently expecting her first baby with fianc\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/nelly\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,nelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nelly<\/a>, 49, and took to social media on Thursday (16.05.24) evening &#8211; which was four days after Mother&#8217;s Day in the US &#8211; to explain how &#8220;grateful&#8221; she feels to be expanding her family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She wrote on Instagram: &#8220;This Mother\u2019s Day was so special\u2026 having our families together as we are about to embark on such an incredible journey was amazing. Wishing all of the amazing Moms and Moms to be a beautiful Mother\u2019s Day\/ Pre Mothers Day!!!!! #gratefulyeah yeah I know I\u2019m late\u2026 it was so much food I got distracted!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ps\u2026 I only had 1 plate tho.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ashanti\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ashanti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ashanti<\/a> and Nellie revealed the pregnancy just over a month ago.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a video posted to Instagram, Ashanti can be seen getting ready for backstage and when asked how long she needs to get ready, she replies: &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna need about nine months!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nShe captioned the post: &#8220;Baby baby baby baby\u2026.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut not only did the &#8216;Foolish&#8217; singer announce the news that she is having her first baby with &#8216;Hot in Here&#8217; hitmaker Nelly &#8211; who already has Chanelle, 30 and 25-year-old son Cornell from his previous relationship with Rhonda Mack &#8211; she also revealed at the time that the pair are set to tie the knot.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told Essence magazine: &#8220;This new year of my life is such a blessing full of love, hope, and anticipation. Motherhood is something that I have looked forward to, and sharing this with my family, fianc\u00e9, and loyal fans, who have been so supportive of my career, is an amazing experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe celebrity duo were initially together in the late 2000s but were apart for more than a decade before reuniting in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/pregnant-ashanti-reflects-mothers-day-special-yeah-yeah-know-late-1399728.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 May 2024 Ashanti felt &#8220;so special&#8221; on Mother&#8217;s Day. Ashanti and Nelly are expecting their first baby together The 43-year-old singer is currently expecting her first baby with fianc\u00e9 Nelly, 49, and took to social media on Thursday (16.05.24) evening &#8211; which was four days after Mother&#8217;s Day in the US &#8211; to explain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1645,1646,7955],"class_list":{"0":"post-97856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-ashanti","9":"tag-nelly","10":"tag-rhonda-mack"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}