“It’s a blessing to be able to have them all together, and to have a wife who’s open and treats them as if they’re her kids,” he says. The graciousness of that attitude isn’t lost on the father of five. That family dynamic shaped Cardi’s desire for all of Offset’s kids to forge a close bond. While Cardi and her sister Hennessy have the same mother and father, she has an additional six siblings from her father’s previous relationship. “I never heard of a half-brother-those are my brothers.” “I have two brothers, and we have three different dads,” Offset says. I hope that we always have a great relationship.”Ĭardi and Offset knew about the realities of blending families long before they had to navigate those waters themselves. “I always wanted them to love me, and they really do. “After we got married, that’s when I first met his kids,” Cardi says during our sit-down interview. While she doesn’t want to disturb the relationships she has with the other mothers of Offset’s children, more than anything, she doesn’t want any of his kids to feel left out. It was Cardi who asked on a Zoom call whether she could talk to our editorial and creative team, woman to woman, about the possibility of including her stepchildren in our photo shoot. Offset is also a father to three older children from previous relationships: daughter Kalea, 7, and sons Jordan, 12, and Kody, also 7. They’re husband and wife, and parents to their 3-year-old daughter Kulture and 7-month-old son Wave. Exhausted from trying to keep up with their ever-changing schedule for just a few weeks, I wonder how they do it.Ĭardi B, 29, and Offset, 30, aren’t just mega-successful music superstars in their own right. “Before this interview, I hadn’t seen her in like seven days,” the Migos rapper tells me five days later, when we all finally reunite in their sprawling New Jersey mansion. He’s somewhere boarding a plane to do a show. Moments later I’m sitting on a brown sectional across from Cardi herself, in the family room of the luxurious multilevel home, my voice recorder and a laundry list of questions queued up. I recognize it from a picture on Cardi’s Instagram. Standing on their doorstep, I admire the spiral staircase I can see through the large window in the entryway. Cover locked in, they graciously allow me into their Beverly Hills home for a joint interview. It will be just shy of three months before I see the couple again. As Cardi lets Offset in on the news that we want to feature their family as the stars of our anniversary issue, he replies with a smile and a casual “Let’s do it.” I make small talk while hoping to close the deal on the ESSENCE cover offer we extended a month prior. We’re in a cabana atop Pharrell Williams’s Goodtime Hotel in Miami Beach for the launch of Cardi’s newest business venture, Whipshots. The first time I meet Cardi B and Offset, it’s during Art Basel.
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