Nicki Minaj has celebrated Mother’s Day by commemorating all the strong women that surround her and her family, shouting them all out in a heartfelt post on Instagram.
The post, which included a carousel of photos that started with one of her and her husband, Kenneth Petty, alongside their son Papa Bear, included photos of Papa with all of his grandmas. Nicki shouted them all out and said her son was so “lucky” to have them in his life.
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“All I can think about is how sleep deprived my husband & I were,” the Pinkprint rapper began. “And how I wouldn’t trade even one minute of the journey to becoming your mom.”
She continued, “3 diff moms in this slide. Papa, one day I hope you’ll know how lucky you are to have them. Happy Mother’s Day Mommy. Thank you for bringing me to church with you when I was a kid. Happy Mother’s Day to my husband’s mother who helped us soooo much in the first year so we could get a few hours of sleep sometimes.
“Happy Mother’s Day to my husband’s grandmother whom he adores. And to you. The mothers who have no clue how you’re going to “figure it out”. Wishing you blessings & peace. You will ABSOLUTELY figure it out. I promise. You’re a superhero”
This is far from the first time Nicki has spoken about her trials and tribulations as a mother. In a candid interview alongside Jada Pinkett Smith for Interview Magazine, the rap superstar ruminated on how her own childhood trauma has impacted her mothering abilities.
“I see myself as a baby in my son and because of that, it reminds me of moments that I had probably forgotten over time, just of me being a toddler in Trinidad,” Nicki said. “First of all, being a mother is the biggest freaking blessing on planet earth. I’m so happy that God allowed me to experience this.”
She continued: “I love my son so much that I don’t know if it’s normal, but it seems unhealthy because I took too long to start working and leaving him to be watched by anyone, so now I have this real bad separation anxiety. So that’s not good.”
She went on to say that her parents had left her in Trinidad and that the experience created serious separation anxiety.
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“When I was 2 years old, my parents left me in Trinidad,” she said. “Of course, I was very attached to my mother, and in my little toddler mind, I thought I was going to see her the next day. And she was gone for two years, so that’s a big part in my development.”
She added: “In fact, right before I came to the States, my mother had to come to Trinidad because I had to have an operation. And when I opened my eyes from the operation, and I was maybe three years old going on four, I started crying because I didn’t know who this lady was. I was crying at the side of my mother, and I started begging my cousin, who was a teenager, to come be in the room with me because that’s who I had gotten attached to in the year-and-a-half prior, you know?
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“So I’m reliving all of those things now because I’m afraid that my son will ever feel that I left him for anything, for any reason, and for any amount of time.”
In other news, Nicki Minaj just gave her latest single “Red Ruby Da Sleaze” the visual treatment, dropping off the track’s music video on Sunday (May 14).
