Cardi B Reveals the Way She 'Automatically' Knew She Was Pregnant with Baby No. 3

Mar. 15, 2025

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“It was around March 20 or March 16… it was around those days, right? I woke up one morning and my mouth tasted like copper. It literally tasted like copper. So I was like, ‘Oh my gosh. This only happened to me when I’m pregnant,'” Cardi remembers. “So I was like, damn. I automatically knew that I was pregnant.”

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The mom of three says that she thought about the timeline and decided she must be either six or seven weeks pregnant. When she got to New York, Cardi says she went to her OBGYN, who told her that she was actually much further along.

“She was like, ‘You’re not like seven weeks pregnant or six weeks pregnant. You’re like 17 weeks pregnant.’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ " Cardi remembers. “I was like, No f—ing way, I only had sex one time this year.”

“And then I was like, ‘What is it? What is it?’ And my OB-GYN is like, ‘It’s a girl.’ And when I found out it was a girl, I started crying even more because y’all know that I love raising girls,” she adds.

source: people.com