Cardi B Reveals She’s Expecting Fourth Child: ‘Now Y’all Could Buy My Album So I Can Buy Pampers!’

Cardi B shared some exciting news on CBS Mornings on Wednesday (Sept. 17): she’s expecting a baby with boyfriend Stefon Diggs. The “WAP” rapper revealed to co-host Gayle King that she and the New England Patriots wide receiver are gearing up to welcome their little one before she is slated to kick off her just-announced Little Miss Drama tour in February.

“Yes, I am [pregnant]. I’m having a baby with my boyfriend, Stefon Diggs,” Cardi, 32, said with a smile. “I’m excited. I’m happy. I feel like I’m in a good space. I feel very strong. I feel very powerful that I’m doing all this work. But I’m doing all this work while I’m creating a baby, and me and my man, we’re very supportive of each other.” The baby news comes just as Cardi — already a mother of three young ones with ex-husband rapper Offset — is gearing up for the release of her long-awaited sophomore studio LP, Am I the Drama?, which drops on Friday (Sept. 19).

Cardi said she and Diggs, 31, are in the “same space” in their careers, with both arguably “great” at what they respectively do. “Yeah, we’re one of the greatest, but what’s next? What are we doing again?” she said of their mutual ambition. “We’re never comfortable, we just want to keep doing it.”

King asked about the new album track “Safe” and if Diggs makes Cardi feel that way. “Very safe, in both ways, physically — I mean, like you see how big he is — and he just makes me feel safe and very confident and very, like, strong.” She described having a panic attack a few weeks ago, during which she was “crying and crying and crying” over her nerves surrounding the LP’s release.

“People were coming at me very hard. You know, sometimes people love you, people hate you. And people was just saying very mean things about me,” she said. “And I’m like, see, this is why I don’t put music out, because it’s like, this is my art and this is something that I put a lotta love and time to. And it’s just like, sometimes, when people just rip it apart it just hurts you and it crushes you.”

But, she added, Diggs’ support has made her feel “very confident” and like she can take on the world.

She then sent a direct message to all the haters and talkers who’ve been speculating about her for the past few weeks. “Ya’ll wanted to know, right? Now y’all know. Now y’all could buy my album so I could buy Pampers and diapers and all that type of stuff,” she said with a sassy head finger shake. “Now go support my album because I’m a mother of four now.”

In a serious moment, Cardi explained that she wanted to make the baby announcement on her own time and on her own terms, explaining that she wasn’t hiding anything, but was just trying to “close some deals” before officially sharing the news. “You don’t really want to say right away that you’re pregnant,” she added, noting that expectant mothers typically want to see a few sonograms and make sure their baby is healthy before revealing their pregnancies.

In fact, she hasn’t even told her parents at the time the interview was taped, joking that she’s “scared of them,” but that she’s happy they like Diggs, who has a young daughter.

Cardi has been in full promo mode this week, interrupting Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show monologue on Tuesday night (Sept. 16) to plug the album and dipping into TODAY With Jenna & Friends earlier in the day to announce her 30-date Little Miss Drama tour, slated to kick off on Feb. 11; she confirmed to King that the baby is due before the tour launch.

“I’m ready, even when I’m pregnant I’ve very, very ready,” she told King about how she’s feeling about being a new mom again as she gears up for her first-ever arena tour. “As soon as I give birth, tour rehearsal stars,” she said. “I don’t come from weak women.”

She also told host Jenna Bush Hager that despite her testy split with Migos rapper Offset she’s a “hopeless romantic” who would definitely get married again. “I believe in love,” she said.

Am I the Drama? will feature eight guest artists: Cash Cobain, Janet Jackson, Kehlani, Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion, Selena Gomez, Summer Walker and Tyla. So far, Cardi’s released two singles from the collection, the Hot 100 top 10 “Outside” and the Jay Z-sampling “Imaginary Playerz.

Watch Cardi on CBS Mornings below.