{"id":28032,"date":"2024-04-18T17:18:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=28032"},"modified":"2024-04-18T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:18:58","slug":"ashanti-announces-pregnancy-and-engagement-with-nelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/18\/ashanti-announces-pregnancy-and-engagement-with-nelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashanti Announces Pregnancy and Engagement with Nelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy award-winning singer, Ashanti, has shared exciting news with her fans, confirming that she is pregnant with her first child and engaged to American rapper, Nelly.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on her Instagram account on Wednesday, April 17, the 43-year-old R&amp;B singer revealed her pregnancy while getting ready for a performance. When asked how much time she needed, Ashanti jokingly replied, &#8220;Uh, I&#8217;m gonna need about nine months,&#8221; leaving her mother, Tina Douglas, visibly surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Ashanti also confirmed the news in an interview with Essence, expressing her joy and gratitude for the blessings in her life. She shared, &#8220;This new year of my life is such a blessing full of love, hope, and anticipation. Motherhood is something that I have looked forward to, and sharing this with my family, fianc\u00e9, and loyal fans, who have been so supportive of my career, is an amazing experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grammy award-winning singer, Ashanti, has shared exciting news with her fans, confirming that she is pregnant with her first child and engaged to American rapper, Nelly. In a video posted on her Instagram account on Wednesday, April 17, the 43-year-old R&amp;B singer revealed her pregnancy while getting ready for a performance. When asked how much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28032"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28044,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28032\/revisions\/28044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}