‘Been single for a minute now:’ Cardi B confirms Offset break up
Break up FILE PHOTO: (L-R) Cardi B and Offset attend the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 12, 2023 in Beverly Hills, California. The couple has apparently broke up again. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)
By Natalie Dreier, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Cardi B says she’s “curious for a new life, for a new beginning” after the rapper confirmed she has broken up once again with husband Offset.
She said during an Instagram Live that she wasn’t afraid to tell her fans about the relationship ending but said, “I just didn’t know how to tell the world,” adding that she had wanted to tell them during her last Instagram Live but had changed her mind, E! News reported.
Entertainment Online said the couple had unfollowed each other on social media and she had posted, “You know when you just out grow relationships” and “I’m tired of protecting peoples feelings...I GOTTA PUT MYSELF FIRST!” leading fans to suspect that the two were no longer together.
There had been new rumors recently that Offset had been cheating on Cardi B, which he denied, CNN reported.
Cardi B and Offset married in private in 2017, with just the officiant, the couple and Cardi B’s cousin present in Atlanta, CNN and E! News reported. There was no makeup, no dress and no ring, she said when she broke the news to her fans. Months after the secret wedding, Offset asked her to marry him during a sold-out concert, giving her an 8-carat diamond ring.
The couple had a daughter, Kulture, in July 2018, but broke up for a short time in December of that year after he was accused of cheating. They were “working things out” the next year, but then filed for divorce in 2020 before calling it off a few months later, E! News reported.
The couple had baby number two together in 2021, a boy named Wave, Entertainment Tonight reported.
Last weekend, Cardi B walked the catwalk during the Balenciaga Fall 24 Show in Los Angeles. Offset was not at the show, ET reported.
Balenciaga LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 02: Cardi B attends the Balenciaga Fall 24 Show on December 02, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Balenciaga) (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for Balenciaga)
Photos: Cardi B through the years Here are some memorable photos of rapper Cardi B through the years. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2015: Cardi B walks the runway for Gypsy Sport at Milk Studios on September 15, 2015, in New York City. (Arun Nevader/Getty Images)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2016: Hennessy and Cardi B attend the 2016 VH1's Divas Holiday: Unsilent Night at Kings Theatre on December 2, 2016, in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2017: Cardi B at the 2017 BET Awards at Microsoft Square on June 25, 2017, in Los Angeles. (Maury Phillips/Getty Images)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2017: Cardi B attends the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on August 27, 2017, in Inglewood, California. (Christopher Polk/Getty Images)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2018: Recording artist Cardi B attends the 60th annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018, in New York City. (Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2018: Cardi B attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018, in New York City. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2019: Cardi B attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2019, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2019: Offset (left) and Cardi B attend Rihanna's fifth annual Diamond Ball Benefitting the Clara Lionel Foundation at Cipriani Wall Street on September 12, 2019, in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Diamond Ball)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2020: Cardi B attends Universal Pictures Presents the Road to F9 Concert and Trailer Drop on January 31, 2020, in Miami. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Universal Pictures)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2020: Cardi B, Offset and Kulture Kiari Cephus attend the Teyana Taylor "The Album" Listening Party on June 17, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California. (Rich Fury/Getty Images for Def Jam Recordings)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2021: Cardi B performs onstage during the 63rd annual Grammy Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California, and broadcast on March 14, 2021. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Photos: Cardi B through the years 2021: Cardi B poses on the runway during the Balenciaga Womenswear Spring/Summer 2022 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Theatre Du Chatelet on October 2, 2021, in Paris. (Richard Bord/Getty Images)