Cardi B Announces Pregnancy & Files For Divorce On The Same Day

In a big day for life updates, Cardi B announced that she’s pregnant with her third child on Aug. 1 — roughly an hour after reports revealed that she’d filed for divorce from Offset.

Cardi shared her baby announcement on Instagram, sporting a belly-baring red gown and matching coat in her glamorous maternity photoshoot. “With every ending comes a new beginning!” she wrote in the caption, going on to pen a letter for the little one.

A Message To Baby No. 3

“I am so grateful to have shared this season with you,” Cardi wrote. “You have brought me more love, more life and most of all renewed my power! Reminded me that I can have it all! You’ve reminded me that I never have to choose between life, love, and my passion!”

Cardi, who shares 6-year-old Kulture and 2-year-old Wave with Offset, thanked her third child for helping her accomplish so much. “It’s so much easier taking life’s twists, turns and test laying down, but you, your brother and your sister have shown me why it’s worth it to push through!”

In a recent Rolling Stone profile, the rapper opened up about relishing the role of motherhood. “It’s like it’s meant to be,” she said. “The stars align. My kids are the best decisions I ever made.”

Cardi B & Offset’s Divorce

Earlier in the day, Cardi’s rep confirmed to Page Six that the musician had filed for divorce from Offset, her husband of nearly seven years.

If you’ve been following the couple for a while now, that probably isn’t too surprising. In December, Cardi confirmed on Instagram that she and Offset had broken up and had been “been single for a minute now.”

However, the couple has been seen out together since then — and in May, Cardi told Rolling Stone that they “do love each other.”

“We’re best friends,” she explained. “And it’s like, ‘OK. Well, there was a time that I didn’t have a best friend, or I didn’t have a support system.’ It’s not even about ‘How do you leave a partner?’ How do you stop talking to your best friend?”

Cardi previously filed for divorce in 2020, explaining that “people grow apart” in an Instagram Live at the time. However, she reversed course, and the case was dismissed soon after.

“The main thing that I wanted him to stop ... he stopped and he changed,” she shared on The Jason Lee Show (via Entertainment Tonight). “And it showed me that he wanted to change for me.”