Cardi B Reveals She’s Expecting 2nd Child With Husband, Offset (Photos)

American rapper, Cardi B, is expecting her second child with husband, Offset. She made this announcement few hours ago.

Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar was born on October 11, 1992, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The daughter of a Dominican father and Trinidadianmother, she was raised in the Highbridgeneighborhood of the South Bronx,and spent much time at her paternal grandmother’s home in Washington Heights, which she credits with giving her “such a thick accent.”

Almánzar developed the stage name “Cardi B” as a derivation of Bacardi, a rum brand that was formerly her nickname.She has said she was a gang member with the Bloods in her youth, since the age of 16,and has stated that she would not encourage joining a gang. She attended Renaissance High School for Musical Theater & Technology, a vocational high school on the Herbert H. Lehman High School campus.

During her teens, Cardi B was employed at a deli in Tribeca. She was fired, and her manager suggested she apply to be a stripper at the strip club across the street. Cardi B has said that becoming a stripper was positive for her life in many ways: “It really saved me from a lot of things. When I started stripping I went back to school.”

She has stated that she became a stripper to escape poverty and domestic violence, having been in an abusive relationship at the time after being kicked out of her mother’s house, and that stripping was her only way to earn enough money to escape the situation and get an education.

She attended Borough of Manhattan Community College before eventually dropping out.While stripping, Cardi B lied to her mother by telling her she was making money babysitting.

In 2013, she began to gain publicity due to several of her videos spreading on social media, on Vine and her Instagram page.