Nelly and Ashanti. Courtesy of Ashanti/Instagram
Ashanti and Nelly are formally married as they await the arrival of their first child collectively.
Ashanti, 43, and Nelly, 49, secretly held their wedding ceremony in St. Louis on December 27, 2023, Us Weekly can verify. The information comes simply weeks after Us confirmed Ashanti was pregnant with their first little one.
The couple initially met at a Grammy Awards press convention and dated on and off between 2003 and 2013. After calling it quits, Ashanti and Nelly reconnected a decade later in April 2023 and rekindled their romance.
“Yeah, we cool once more,” Nelly stated on the “Boss Strikes with Rasheeda” podcast in September 2023. “I believe it shocked each of us although. It wasn’t something that I don’t suppose was deliberate. Earlier than I felt like each of us had been doing what we had been doing earlier than career-wise, and once you acquired so many individuals in the midst of it, it may be robust.”
The Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner, Lauren Alaina, Usher and extra celebrities went to the chapel in 2024 and acquired married. Turner met Theresa Nist through the inaugural season of the Bachelor Nation spinoff, which aired in late 2023. Weeks after their televised proposal, Turner and Nist wed in a stay TV ceremony on January […]
On the time, a supply completely advised Us that the pair had been taking issues sluggish.
“A number of years in the past, Ashanti by no means would’ve imagined reconciling with Nelly, however they’re having fun with spending time collectively,” the insider shared about how “snug” Ashanti and Nelly are with one another. “They don’t wish to rush something.”
Us subsequently broke the information in December 2023 that Ashanti and Nelly had been anticipating their first child collectively, his fifth. Nelly additionally shares daughter Chanelle, 29, and son Cornell Haynes III, 24, with ex Channetta Valentine. He additionally beforehand adopted Shawn and Sydney, the kids of his late sister Jackie Donahue, after her 2005 demise.
Ashanti and Nelly. Alexander Tamargo/Getty Pictures for E11EVEN
After remaining largely tight-lipped about their romance, Ashanti confirmed their engagement and her being pregnant.
“This new 12 months of my life is such a blessing full of affection, hope, and anticipation,” Ashanti advised Essence in April. “Motherhood is one thing that I’ve appeared ahead to, and sharing this with my household, fiancé, and constant followers, who’ve been so supportive of my profession, is an incredible expertise.”
Ashanti and Nelly discovered their manner again to one another in 2023 after a collection of ups and downs. The twosome sparked romance hypothesis in early 2003 after connecting at a Grammys occasion. Though they performed coy about their standing for years, Ashanti confirmed in March 2015 that they had been a pair till 2013. Following […]
The singer supplied extra particulars on the proposal two months later, sharing with Leisure Tonight on June 18, “It was simply such a stupendous, intimate second. We weren’t dressy. I felt like [the proposal] was going to return quickly. I didn’t know when. The best way that it occurred was simply so humorous. I’m sitting within the mattress watching TV with boxers on.”
Ashanti continued: “I gave him the most important hug and kiss ever. I FaceTimed everybody I do know. … I used to be overjoyed and shocked and shocked and joyful, type of, like, multi functional.”
Through the interview, Ashanti teased her imaginative and prescient for his or her wedding ceremony after saying she was “prepared” to stroll down the aisle, including, “I believe it’s going to be a mixture of trend, glam, Caribbean vibes. I’ve to have a seaside and ocean and sunshine and palm bushes.”
