Ashanti is juggling it all, baby.
The singer, 44, and Nelly, 50 have a love story for the books. The pair first started dating in 2003, before splitting in 2013. But in Sept. 2023, they found their way back to each other.
Ashanti and Nelly tied the knot in December of that year before welcoming their first child together, son Kareem Kenkaide Hayes, in July 2024.
Now, the actress is getting candid on how she navigates motherhood while having a decades-long career in the entertainment industry.
“Coconut water!” Ashanti teased exclusively to The Post while promoting her new film “No Address” on Monday.
All jokes aside, the new mom explained, “When you’re passionate and you care, you make it happen.”
“I’m super, super blessed and very grateful and humbled and I’m infatuated with my son, my family, my husband — it’s a beautiful thing,” Ashanti continued. “It’s really a joy to still be able to do what I love and make a difference.”
As the superstar put it, “I’m just very grateful for that.”
And Ashanti’s “No Address” co-star Billy Baldwin knows a thing or two about balancing being a working parent.
“Your life changes, you know?” the actor, 61, said. “My life was never the same.”
“I don’t want to say this out loud,” Billy teased to the Grammy winner. “Not that this is going to happen to you, but I really, and this happened to my mother too, I never really slept the same. You don’t really sleep the same.”
He quipped, “It ain’t the old sleep.”
Baldwin’s family has also grown this past year, after his niece Hailey Bieber and husband Justin Bieber welcomed their son, Jack Blues, in August.
As for how it has been since welcoming the little one? As Baldwin described it: “Great.”
“That was like my mother’s sixteenth great-grandchild,” he shared. “She’s got 30 grandchildren so 16th or 17th. Yeah they are busy, young parents. Very exciting, very happy for them. “
And when it comes to making a difference, Ashanti is doing just that with her and Baldwin’s latest project “No Address,” which sheds light onto the homelessness crisis in LA and beyond.
The artist’s song “Bonafide Survivor” was also played in the film.
“It’s so funny, I actually recorded this song a while ago and it just teaches us about the universe and how time aligns just like how the project is coming out now,” Ashanti told the Post. “We filmed this years ago and the alignment is just incredible, same with the song.”
“It follows the path and it describes everyone’s struggle. Everyone gets to a point at some time in their life where they feel they have to be in survival mode. And it’s about surviving,” she went on. “I just felt like it was perfect and it definitely showed [my character] Violet’s true aura. Just surviving and making it through.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
