The mates celebrated their small 1 connected the mode with a fairytale babe ablution that summer.

"It was a peculiar infinitesimal for Offset and Cardi, and you could archer determination was a batch of emotion betwixt them and successful the room," a source antecedently told E! News. "They are some precise excited astir the babe coming and are counting down the days." 

Cardi and Offset's daughter, Kulture Kiari Cephus, was born July 10, 2018, with her joining his kids Jordan, Kody and Kalea from erstwhile relationships. And the "Bodak Yellow" creator said the Migos members chose the newborn's name.

"My dude named the baby," Cardi told Ellen DeGeneres astatine the time. "I truly similar the name. Imma fto him accidental the sanction since helium named the baby. It's, like, astir tricky but erstwhile it comes out, it's like, 'Ahh!'"

The mates brought the heat to the Jingle Ball stage with a large smooch.  

"Thank you husband. He's truthful fine," Cardi told the crowd. "That's my babe daddy, yo."

But conscionable days later, Cardi announced they broke up aft rumors of Offset's infidelity dispersed crossed the internet. 

"I conjecture we grew retired of love, but we're not unneurotic anymore," she explained connected societal media. "I don't know. It mightiness instrumentality clip to get a divorcement and I'm gonna ever person a batch of emotion for him due to the fact that helium is my daughter's father."

Shortly aft Cardi revealed their split, Offset took to Instagram with an affectional plea that helium aboriginal featured connected his Father of 4 debut workplace album.

"We're going done a batch of things close now, a batch of things successful the media," helium said successful the video. "I privation to apologize to you, Cardi. I embarrassed you. I made you spell crazy. I was partaking successful enactment that I shouldn't person been partaking in, and I apologize. You cognize what I'm saying? For breaking your heart, for breaking our promise, for breaking God's committedness and being a selfish, messed-up husband."

A time later, he crashed her headlining performance astatine the Rolling Loud Festival successful Los Angeles, implicit with a barroom and 2,000 achromatic and reddish roses from Venus ET Fleur worthy $15,000, displaying the message, "Take Me Back Cardi." 

During the 2019 Grammys reddish carpet, Cardi and Offset not-so-subtly confirmed they were backmost connected with immoderate superior PDA.

And Offset aboriginal explained however they were moving forward.

"You gotta spell done steps and antithetic things truthful that we tin grow," helium said connected The Breakfast Club. "Not connected the TV though, existent behind-the-scenes, getting to cognize each other, getting to cognize who you're with and admit them each the mode around. Because that 1 mistake made maine admit her." 

By that spring, the brace had enactment their romance connected show with a steamy associated euphony video for "Clout" arsenic good arsenic a surprise performance unneurotic astatine Revolve Festival. 

The fashion-forward mates stuck a sultry airs astatine the 2019 BET Awards, and professed their emotion for each different successful saccharine societal media tributes.

"I emotion you," Cardi wrote connected Instagram astatine the clip alongside photos from the event, and Offset adding, "I emotion you more."

Cardi and daughter Kulture appear on the screen of Vogue successful December 2019, wherever the Grammy victor reflected connected her husband's infidelity.

"I judge successful forgiveness," she told the magazine. "I prayed connected it. Me and my husband, we prayed connected it. We had priests travel to us. And we conscionable came to an knowing like, bro, it's truly america against the world."

"He has my backmost for everything, I person his backmost for everything," Cardi continued, "so erstwhile you cheat, you're betraying the idiosyncratic that has your backmost the most. Why would you bash that? We person travel to a wide understanding. For me, monogamy is the lone way. I'll bushed your ass if you cheat connected me."

The household celebrated Cardi's 2nd Mother's Day, which Offset commemorated with a loving message.

"Happy Mother's Day," helium wrote connected Instagram astatine the time, "since I met you it's been emotion convey you for my beauteous girl she astute with cognition similar you and talented similar america some my kids and you assistance maine go a amended feline each around. Thank You WIFE !!!!"

While performing with her hubby and the remainder of the Migos radical during the 2021 BET Awards, Cardi announced she's expecting her 2nd child with Offset.

On Sept. 6, 2021, the parents announced their baby's birth.

"We are truthful overjoyed to yet conscionable our son," they shared successful a associated statement. "He is already loved truthful overmuch by household and friends and we can't hold to present him to his different siblings."

Seven months later, Cardi and Offset revealed the small one's name: Wave Set Cephus.

And the "Money" creator was excited astir their caller chapter.

"Of people we went done immoderate challenges," she told E! News successful November 2021. "We had to get to cognize each different better. But I consciousness similar I've ne'er been happier. I truly consciousness similar [it's] not adjacent conscionable marriage, it's the family, the unity, the relationship that we have, the 'I person your back, you person my back.'"

With astir 5 years of matrimony nether their belt, Cardi looked backmost astatine the aboriginal days of their union.

“I consciousness similar our archetypal year, adjacent though we were successful emotion with each other, we had a batch of lust,” she told Essence successful a 2022 screen story. “We didn’t truly cognize each different similar that, due to the fact that helium was doing 4 shows a week. I was doing 4 shows a week. We would spot each different astir 3 oregon 4 times a month.”

The “Up” rapper besides shed immoderate airy connected wherefore she called disconnected their divorcement backmost successful 2020.

"The main happening that I wanted him to halt and everything, helium stopped and helium changed," she explained connected a January 2023 occurrence of The Jason Lee Show, "and it showed maine that helium wanted to alteration for me."

As clip went on, Cardi added, she and Offset were “getting amended and better” and she soon learned they were expecting babe Wave. She past decided to springiness Offset different chance, noting, “You could conscionable spot erstwhile somebody’s trying.”

After the stars celebrated New Year's Eve together, fans questioned erstwhile again wherever they stood, making Cardi consciousness the request to connection immoderate clarification.

"I don't see that we're backmost together," she told her followers the adjacent day, "because  the reply of getting backmost unneurotic is not a bully nighttime astatine the nine and f--king the nighttime long. We request to enactment connected our s--t. We request to enactment connected our communication. There's things that helium gotta enactment on, there's things that I gotta enactment on."

So, arsenic Cardi enactment it, they were "testing the space."

Cardi B and Offset sparked reconciliation rumors aft they were seen unneurotic astatine a 2024 Met Gala after-party.

“I deliberation it through," she told Rolling Stone that aforesaid period astir the authorities of their marriage. "We deliberation it through, due to the fact that we bash emotion each other. It’s not adjacent astir love. We’re champion friends. And it’s like, ‘OK. Well, determination was a clip that I didn’t person a champion friend, oregon I didn’t person a enactment system.’ It’s not adjacent astir ‘How bash you permission a partner?’ How bash you halt talking to your champion friend?”