Pregnant Ashanti Confirms Engagement to Nelly Before Baby’s Arrival

Ashanti and Nelly are engaged, confirming the news before they welcome their initial baby alongside one another.

“This new 12 months of my daily life is this sort of a blessing full of really like, hope, and anticipation,” Ashanti, 43, informed Essence on Wednesday, April 17. “Motherhood is something that I have seemed forward to, and sharing this with my loved ones, fiancé, and faithful followers, who have been so supportive of my vocation, is an awesome encounter.”

The expecting singer also debuted her baby information in an Instagram movie, in which her group was hurrying her on phase for a live performance.

“I need about nine months,” she quipped, holding up a fertility test from Proov, a organization she co-owns with Nelly, 49.

Ashanti captioned her article, “Baby child toddler baby…. ❤️🙏🏽😆.”

Us Weekly broke the information in December 2023 that Ashanti and Nelly are expecting their to start with infant with each other, his fifth. Nelly also shares daughter Chanelle, 29, and son Cornell Haynes III, 24, with ex Channetta Valentine. He also beforehand adopted Shawn and Sydney, the small children of his late sister Jackie Donahue, soon after her 2005 demise.

Ashanti and Nelly fulfilled at a Grammy Awards push meeting and dated on and off between 2003 and 2013. They reconnected a decade later on in April 2023.

“Yeah, we awesome once again,” Nelly mentioned all through a September 2023 physical appearance on the “Boss Moves with Rasheeda” podcast. “I think it amazed the two of us however. It was not nearly anything that I never assume was prepared.”

He extra at the time, “Before I felt like both equally of us had been doing what we were carrying out prior to vocation-wise, and when you obtained so a lot of men and women in the center of it, it can be tough.”

Months later, a resource explained to Us that the pair had been having their reunion gradual.

“A number of yrs back, Ashanti in no way would’ve imagined reconciling with Nelly, but they’re experiencing investing time collectively,” a source solely told Us in September 2023. “They really don’t want to rush something.”

According to the insider, Ashanti and Nelly “know just about every other greater than most people” and are “very comfortable” collectively.

Amid Ashanti’s pregnancy, her renowned good friends and previous associates are delighted for the few.

“She’s a truly dope person. She really is. She’s an amazing individual,” Joyner Lucas, who previously dated Ashanti, gushed on the “Jason Lee Show” earlier this thirty day period. “She’s about to have a little one. I know how a great deal she wished to be a mom.”

He continued, “She’s gonna be an amazing mom. I would convey to her that all the time [when we dated].”