Pregnant Cardi B Claps Back at Troll over Skin Bleaching Claim: 'Why Must Yall Be So Dumb?'

Mar. 15, 2025

Cardi B at the 4th Annual Hollywood Unlocked Impact Awards at The Beverly Hilton on June 21, 2024.Photo:Arnold Turner/Getty

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Cardi Bis clapping back!

“Bleaching while pregnant? Why must yall be so dumb ?,” the “Bodak Yellow” artist, 31, wrote on X (formerly known as Twitter). “Actually NO ! I’m pregnant I’m slightly anemic.”

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Earlier this month, Cardi — who shares sonWave Set, 2½, and daughterKulture Kiari, 6, with rapperOffset— revealed that a “freak accident” left her briefly “paralyzed,” almost causing a pregnancy loss.

Speaking to fans in anX Spaces chat, the soon to be mother of three, said, “I had a f—ing freak accident. I don’t know how something — well, it wasn’t little, it actually hurt.”

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“It doesn’t really happen often, but it become [sic] so big to the point I was literally paralyzed," she added. “And that little thing almost cost me my little one to come.”

This occurred a dayafter she filed for divorce fromOffset, 32, after six years of marriage.

source: people.com