Nelly and Ashanti are all the thrill following a report from Us Weekly that the singer-actress is pregnant with the rapper’s little one.
Reached by Yahoo Leisure, a consultant for Ashanti had no remark. A rep for Nelly didn’t instantly reply.
The report adopted one from TMZ, which stated that, whereas showing at Nelly’s eleventh Black and White Ball for charity in his hometown of St. Louis, he and Ashanti each posed for photos with their arms on their bellies as a part of a potential “inside joke.”
The couple has an extended historical past collectively, with years as a pair — possibly greater than we notice, as a result of they’ve saved us all guessing about precisely after they’re a pair.
This is a glance again:
Jan. 7, 2003: Nelly and Ashanti meet and hit it off
She revealed on an episode of VH1’s Behind the Music that she met her future love on the 2003 Grammy Awards announcement occasion. {A photograph} of them was snapped.
“The primary time I met Nelly he requested me for my autograph, however I believe he was being sarcastic and I keep in mind writing it down on this system,” she instructed the present. “That image has been in so many publications as one thing else, however it began out as a joke. For the document, it took him a very long time to get my quantity.”
Feb. 1, 2006: Nelly and Ashanti are photographed on a date
The artists present up collectively at a bash for Diddy’s new perfume. It is a fairly large deal, as a result of she has stated that, although they’ve gone on a date, they’re “not boyfriend and girlfriend.”
Dec. 13, 2009: Ashanti co-stars in Nelly’s horny video for “Physique on Me”
The 2 get flirty onscreen. There are indicators that they are relationship — like when she denies that they are relationship, however says they plan to get engaged a while sooner or later — however, for probably the most half, they’re nonetheless maintaining their private lives quiet.
Dec. 14, 2010: Nelly clarifies his relationship with Ashanti and says he isn’t prepared for marriage
The “Only a Dream” rapper reveals in an interview with RapUpTV that he and Ashanti are taking issues gradual.
“Proper now we’re associates, I am married to my work,” he explains. “I am married to getting issues in a sure state of affairs proper now and she or he’s married to getting issues in a sure state of affairs proper now.”
He says marriage is one thing he takes very severely.
“What individuals do not perceive is that I believe you actually should be associates first, that is the factor,” he says.”It is not about how lengthy it takes, there is not any time restrict on this. I am not an individual who needs to be married greater than as soon as, I am not an individual who needs to be in a relationship greater than as soon as. You are dying if you happen to go away me.”
March 5, 2014: Ashanti says she has ‘no beef’ with Nelly
Amid breakup rumors, Ashanti offers an especially candid statement about Nelly’s standing together with her: “It is a very small business. Are we gonna see one another? Yeah… I am not bitter,” she says in an interview with radio station Scorching 97. “I really feel like in a relationship, it is like ping-pong. Generally you’re keen on them, typically you hate them. That is an actual assertion, everybody goes by that.”
March 13, 2015: Ashanti confirms that she and Nelly have damaged up
Throughout an look on The Meredith Vieira Present, the host says, “You are not collectively anymore, and also you stated it mainly got here all the way down to belief, and I believe that’s one thing that so many ladies cope with. How do you deal with belief in relationships? Why do you suppose it is exhausting to belief someone?”
“I believe typically when individuals have their very own insecurities, it permits them to behave out of character,” Ashanti solutions. “I have been betrayed. And I simply really feel like … once more, you simply should develop. You need to develop up. You need to settle for tasks for the issues that you just do. You realize, I am not a giant fan of individuals being cowards.”
Sept. 15 2021: Nelly and Ashanti reunite at Verzuz
Ja Rule and Fats Joe’s Verzuz battle contains a cameo by the 2, though neither of them had identified that it was going to occur. He comes over to hug her onstage throughout their group efficiency.
“Now look, that is the loopy half: I had no thought he was gonna be there,” she tells Ja Rule afterward on Instagram Stay. “I have never seen him or spoken to him since we broke up. Six years or one thing? So, I did not know what to anticipate.”
And he appeared shocked, too.
“I seen his eyes get large and I did not know what was gonna occur,” she says. “I did not know what to anticipate. It was constructive.”
December 2022: Ashanti and Nelly are ‘in a greater place’
On Dec. 4, the pair carry out once more! This time they do “Physique on Me” at Arizona radio stations’s vacation live performance.
Then, on Dec. 14, Ashanti tells Andy Cohen, on his Watch What Occurs Stay, that she was shocked on the constructive fan response to her reunion with Nelly.
“My response was wow,” she says. “It was quite a lot of feedback and lots of people wanting that. What I’ll say is we’re in a greater place.”
That they had been combating.
“However we’re cool now,” Ashanti says. “Yeah, we’ve got some conversations, . So it is cool.”
June 9, 2023: Nelly and Ashanti are again on the purple carpet collectively
The 2 have a date night time at a glam occasion in Atlanta. Their look marks their first on a purple carpet since 2012, in response to Individuals. (See high picture.)
Sept. 12, 2023: Nelly and Ashanti verify they’re formally reunited
He does it first throughout an look on Philo’s Boss Moves with Rasheeda. When requested in the event that they had been again collectively, he says, “Yeah. We cool once more. I believe it shocked each of us. It wasn’t something that was like, I do not suppose, deliberate. I believe we each had been just about doing what we do. However typically being separate, you perceive each other extra.”
That night, on the purple carpet on the 2023 MTV VMAs, Ashanti tells E! that the pair have reunited. The singer is requested about it as a result of she carries a clutch with a photograph of them collectively on the identical occasion 20 years earlier. She thought the accent “is perhaps cute,” and, after all, it was.
Oct. 13, 2023: Nelly pays tribute to Ashanti for her birthday, surprises her with a necklace
“Such a phenomenal, an unimaginable individual inside and outside,” he wrote as a part of a candy notice below a group of images that captured the 2 collectively. The publish makes it clear what followers had inferred for months, particularly from his publish in August of them singing Usher’s “Nice and Slow.”
As for the present, Nelly gave Ashanti a diamond necklace and watch.
Nov. 4, 2023: Ashanti offers birthday love — and a automobile! — to Nelly
Whereas they preserve their relationship largely personal, Ashanti, like Nelly, was very open about her emotions for him, in a caption for movies and images of them collectively. They confirmed her presenting him together with his present: a beautiful car.
“One of many kindest, most real males I’ve ever met,” she wrote. “You have got such a giant coronary heart and are ALWAYS giving to others Right now is YOUR day!!! Love u! Completely happy birthday.”
Dec. 4, 2023: Us Weekly stories that Ashanti is pregnant with the couple’s first little one collectively.
This might be the reunited couple’s first little one collectively. He is already a father to 4 grownup kids, together with two from earlier relationships and a niece and nephew that he adopted. Their mom was his sister, Jackie, who died of leukemia in 2005.
