How Cardi B Is Building Her Best Life After Breakup

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Cardi B likes dollars, she likes diamonds, she likes stunting, she likes shining.

And shining is precisely what the “I Like It” rapper plans to support connected doing arsenic she enters her 32nd twelvemonth connected Oct. 11.

Just look astatine her outfits for Paris Fashion Week. Whether Cardi was wearing those Balenciagas (you know, the ones that look similar socks) oregon different item, she turned heads astatine the September shows—at 1 constituent adjacent channeling the benignant of her "Puntería" collaborator Shakira.

“Cardi!!! Whaaat?” the “Hips Don’t Lie” vocalist wrote connected Instagram Sept. 27 earlier praising the recently azygous star. “Soltera you look adjacent better!!! Love u!!!!”

While Cardi is determined to unrecorded her champion life, the past fewer months haven't been easy. Back successful August, she filed for divorce from Offset aft nearly 7 years of marriage. Despite speculation, their divided was "not based connected 1 peculiar incident,” her rep explained, noting “it has been a agelong clip coming.”

And amid their breakup, Cardi was entering different caller chapter: Mom of three, announcing her pregnancy successful aboriginal August.

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“With each ending comes a caller beginning!” the Grammy winner—who besides shares girl Kulture, 6, and lad Wave, 3, with Offset—wrote successful an Aug. 1 Instagram message to her small one. “I americium truthful grateful to person shared this play with you, you person brought maine much love, much beingness and astir of each renewed my power! Reminded maine that I tin person it all! You’ve reminded maine that I ne'er person to take betwixt life, love, and my passion!”

And she eagerly anticipated the accomplishment of her bundle of joy.

 “I emotion you truthful overmuch and tin not hold for you to witnesser what you helped maine accomplish, what you pushed maine to do!” she added. “It’s truthful overmuch easier taking life’s twists, turns and trial laying down, but you, your member and your sister person shown maine wherefore it’s worthy it to propulsion through!”

Her youngest daughter—whose sanction has yet to beryllium revealed—entered the world connected Sept. 7, with Cardi calling her “the prettiest lil thing” successful a birth announcement days later. Despite their split, she and Offset came unneurotic for the large day—with photos showing him, Kulture and Wave astatine the hospital.  

While Cardi kept overmuch of her gestation private, she pointed retired she didn’t adjacent find out she was expecting until aboriginal successful her journey.

As she recounted successful a Sept. 28 Instagram Live, she woke up successful March with the sensation of copper successful her mouth—which she said lone happens erstwhile she’s pregnant. While the “Bodak Yellow” rapper assumed she was astir six oregon 7 weeks along, she learned from her doc that she was really person to 17 oregon 18 weeks. This shocked Cardi considering she had a antagonistic gestation trial successful January up of her country for fibrosis and to get her butt injections removed.

So erstwhile she saw the sonogram, she added, she got “real affectional close away.”

“When I recovered retired it was a girl, I started crying adjacent much due to the fact that y’all cognize that I emotion raising girls,” Cardi continued connected her Instagram Live. “Something that I wasn’t truly reasoning overmuch astir due to the fact that I was truthful engaged and truthful overmuch was going connected successful my beingness astir that time, it stuck to my caput for a very, precise agelong time, and I conscionable felt similar God was telling me, ‘This is your baby. I sent this babe to you.’”

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Alas, there was inactive drama. In September, Offset commented connected Cardi's Instagram Live, “u f--ked with a babe connected the inside," to which she seemingly responded by tweeting, “AND DID!!!!!!” (E! News reached retired to some parties astatine the clip for remark but did not perceive back).

Now, Cardi is looking towards the future, which she’s hinted includes yet releasing her 2nd medium pursuing 2018’s Invasion of Privacy.

“I did changeable my medium screen portion I was pregnant,” she teased successful the Sept. 28 Instagram Live, “and I truly bash similar these pictures but I wanna instrumentality a small more.”

As fans hold for those wealth moves, observe Cardi’s day by scrolling done her fashionable ensembles from implicit the years.

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Très Chic

Oooh la la! Cardi B dazzled astatine Messika's Spring-Summer 2025 amusement during Paris Fashion Week.

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Turning Heads

More fashionable looks? Oui. The Grammy victor besides attended Vivienne Westwood's Paris Fashion Week show.

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Unforgettable Met Gala Moment

Cardi made jaws driblet with her Windowsen gown astatine the 2024 Met Gala. 

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Hollywood Glamour

She besides stunned astatine the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscars after-party successful this sexy lace Versace dress.

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Captivating Cardi

The "Bodak Yellow" creator went for a achromatic and achromatic floral-adorned gown by Chen Peng Studio astatine the 2023 Met Gala.

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Lady successful Red

Cardi ruled the reddish carpet successful a crimson plan by Robert Wun astatine the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscars after-party.

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Feather Fantasy

The instrumentalist made a showstopping entranceway astatine Schiaparelli's Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture amusement successful 2023.

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Shining Bright

Cardi was shining agleam astatine the Fendi Haute Couture fall/winter 2023/2024 amusement during Paris Fashion Week.

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Stunting & Shining

The "I Like It" creator looked similar a aureate goddess successful an Atelier Versace chained gown during the 2022 MET Gala. 

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In the News

Cardi besides looked chic astatine Balenciaga's Paris Fashion Week amusement successful 2021, wherever she wore a magazine-pattern trench coat, achromatic hat, matchings gloves and coordinating shoes.

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Fierce Fuchsia

The "Please Me" prima rocked a glittery fuchsia pinkish catsuit during the 2022 Wireless Festival.

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Sheer Style

Cardi besides sparkled successful a achromatic jumpsuit astatine the festival.

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Biker Babe

Cardi B rocked a biker-inspired leather outfit with spike detailing during Paris Fashion Week successful 2022.

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Slayed successful Schiaparelli

The "WAP" rapper arrived astatine the 2021 America Music Awards successful a achromatic dress, matching veil and golden mask.

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Fierce successful Feathers

Cardi sported a sequined ruby gown and feathers astatine a 2021 Thierry Mugler Couturissime event.

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Grammy Ready

Celebrity hairstylist Tokyo Stylez utilized Joico color, styling and attraction products connected the rapper earlier her 2021 Grammys performance. 

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Green Goddess

Cardi B was going greenish successful this Richard Quinn catsuit and matching ruffled headpiece astatine Paris Fashion Week successful 2021.

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Jewel successful the Crown

Talks astir a mic-drop moment. The prima rocked the 2019 Grammys reddish carpet with this over-the-top Thierry Mugler gown from its 1995 archive.

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Fierce and Fabulous

Not surprisingly, Cardi, a.k.a., Belcalis Almanzar, dropped jaws during her 2019 Grammys performance. She took the signifier successful a 1995 archive Thierry Mugler bodysuit, which comes with larger-than-life feathers. Okurr!

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Flower Power

She slayed Paris Fashion Week and she knew it. "I heard you b---hes were missing maine astatine Fashion Week New York," she wrote connected Instagram successful 2019, portion showing disconnected her vibrant greenish floral ensemble. "I'm present to service it to you mother-f--kers, and service it to you cold."

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Suited Up

Attending the Thom Browne amusement successful Paris Fashion Week successful 2019, the "Press" vocalist enactment connected her finest fashion. As she noted connected Instagram, she called her look, "THE TEACHER."

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Green With Envy

Cardi knows however to marque a state-mint, which is precisely what she did with this Ralph & Russo gown successful 2019.

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Cowgirl Couture

The "Money" rapper went state glam with this customized Bryan Hearns outfit for 2019 Rodeo Houston.

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Perfectly Pink

As you tin see, Cardi went each retired for Rihanna's 2019 Diamond Ball gala and wore an over-the-top babe pinkish gown.

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Your Highness

The 2018 Met Gala theme brought Catholic motifs and religious-inspired designs to the extravagant event, and Bardi took america to religion with her ostentatious Moschino gown and headpiece.

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Coachella Fashion

Cardi turned up the vigor astatine Coachella 2018 with this custom, white-hot outfit by Bryan Hearns.

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Rocking the Stage

She besides channeled Linda Evangelista with this 2018 ensemble that was astir identical to what the supermodel wore successful the '90s. She dazzled successful a bodysuit by Vex Clothing, customized accessories from Laurel Dewitt and vintage boots from Chanel.

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A Purrrrrfectly Bold Look

Cardi turned heads during Milan Fashion Week with her chaotic (literally) Dolce & Gabbana ensemble successful 2018.

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Stop the Presses

Never 1 to shy distant from bold prints and patterns, the prima wore this Moschino formal during a 2017 dinner.

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Money Bag

She besides made everyone greenish with envy successful her customized emerald two-piece by Vex Clothing, Dare to Be Vintage robe and Balenciaga boots that year. 

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