How Cardi B Is Building Her Best Life After Breakup

Cardi B likes dollars, she likes diamonds, she likes stunting, she likes shining.

And shining is exactly what the “I Like It” rapper plans to keep on doing as she enters her 32nd year on Oct. 11.

Just look at her outfits for Paris Fashion Week. Whether Cardi was wearing those Balenciagas (you know, the ones that look like socks) or another item, she turned heads at the September shows—at one point even channeling the style of her "Puntería" collaborator Shakira.

“Cardi!!! Whaaat?” the “Hips Don’t Lie” singer wrote on Instagram Sept. 27 before praising the newly single star. “Soltera you look even better!!! Love u!!!!”

While Cardi is determined to live her best life, the past few months haven't been easy. Back in August, she filed for divorce from Offset after nearly seven years of marriage. Despite speculation, their split was "not based on one particular incident,” her rep explained, noting “it has been a long time coming.”

And amid their breakup, Cardi was entering another new chapter: Mom of three, announcing her pregnancy in early August.

“With every ending comes a new beginning!” the Grammy winner—who also shares daughter Kulture, 6, and son Wave, 3, with Offset—wrote in an Aug. 1 Instagram message to her little one. “I am so grateful to have shared this season with you, you have brought me more love, more life and most of all renewed my power! Reminded me that I can have it all! You’ve reminded me that I never have to choose between life, love, and my passion!”

And she eagerly anticipated the arrival of her bundle of joy.

 “I love you so much and can not wait for you to witness what you helped me accomplish, what you pushed me to do!” she added. “It’s so much easier taking life’s twists, turns and test laying down, but you, your brother and your sister have shown me why it’s worth it to push through!”

Her youngest daughter—whose name has yet to be revealed—entered the world on Sept. 7, with Cardi calling her “the prettiest lil thing” in a birth announcement days later. Despite their split, she and Offset came together for the big day—with photos showing him, Kulture and Wave at the hospital.  

While Cardi kept much of her pregnancy private, she pointed out she didn’t even find out she was expecting until later in her journey.

As she recounted in a Sept. 28 Instagram Live, she woke up in March with the taste of copper in her mouth—which she said only happens when she’s pregnant. While the “Bodak Yellow” rapper assumed she was about six or seven weeks along, she learned from her doctor that she was actually closer to 17 or 18 weeks. This shocked Cardi considering she had a negative pregnancy test in January ahead of her surgery for fibrosis and to get her butt injections removed.

So when she saw the sonogram, she added, she got “real emotional right away.”

“When I found out it was a girl, I started crying even more because y’all know that I love raising girls,” Cardi continued on her Instagram Live. “Something that I wasn’t really thinking much about because I was so busy and so much was going on in my life around that time, it stuck to my head for a very, very long time, and I just felt like God was telling me, ‘This is your baby. I sent this baby to you.’”

Alas, there was still drama. In September, Offset commented on Cardi's Instagram Live, “u f--ked with a baby on the inside," to which she seemingly responded by tweeting, “AND DID!!!!!!” (E! News reached out to both parties at the time for comment but did not hear back).

Though the "Money" artist and the Migos member have broken up and gotten back together several times over the years—including in 2018 after he was at the center of a cheating scandal and then again in 2020 when she filed for divorce before dismissing the proceedings—she’s expressed how she's calling it quits for good.

“Thank you for my kids though—all three of them,” Cardi said in another Instagram Live last month. “I don’t regret none of them, but I regret you.”

Now, Cardi is looking towards the future, which she’s hinted includes finally releasing her second album following 2018’s Invasion of Privacy.

“I did shot my album cover while I was pregnant,” she teased in the Sept. 28 Instagram Live, “and I really do like these pictures but I wanna take a little more.”

As fans wait for those money moves, celebrate Cardi’s birthday by scrolling through her fashionable ensembles from over the years.

Oooh la la! Cardi B dazzled at Messika's Spring-Summer 2025 show during Paris Fashion Week.

More fashionable looks? Oui. The Grammy winner also attended Vivienne Westwood's Paris Fashion Week show.

Cardi made jaws drop with her Windowsen gown at the 2024 Met Gala. 

She also stunned at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscars after-party in this sexy lace Versace dress.

The "Bodak Yellow" artist went for a black and white floral-adorned gown by Chen Peng Studio at the 2023 Met Gala.

Cardi ruled the red carpet in a crimson design by Robert Wun at the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscars after-party.

The musician made a showstopping entrance at Schiaparelli's Paris Fashion Week Haute Couture show in 2023.

Cardi was shining bright at the Fendi Haute Couture fall/winter 2023/2024 show during Paris Fashion Week.

The "I Like It" artist looked like a golden goddess in an Atelier Versace chained gown during the 2022 MET Gala. 

Cardi also looked chic at Balenciaga's Paris Fashion Week show in 2021, where she wore a magazine-pattern trench coat, black hat, matchings gloves and coordinating shoes.

The "Please Me" star rocked a glittery fuchsia pink catsuit during the 2022 Wireless Festival.

Cardi also sparkled in a black jumpsuit at the festival.

Cardi B rocked a biker-inspired leather outfit with spike detailing during Paris Fashion Week in 2022.

The "WAP" rapper arrived at the 2021 America Music Awards in a black dress, matching veil and gold mask.

Cardi sported a sequined ruby gown and feathers at a 2021 Thierry Mugler Couturissime event.

Celebrity hairstylist Tokyo Stylez used Joico color, styling and care products on the rapper before her 2021 Grammys performance. 

Cardi B was going green in this Richard Quinn catsuit and matching ruffled headpiece at Paris Fashion Week in 2021.

Talks about a mic-drop moment. The star rocked the 2019 Grammys red carpet with this over-the-top Thierry Mugler gown from its 1995 archive.

Not surprisingly, Cardi, a.k.a., Belcalis Almanzar, dropped jaws during her 2019 Grammys performance. She took the stage in a 1995 archive Thierry Mugler bodysuit, which comes with larger-than-life feathers. Okurr!

She slayed Paris Fashion Week and she knew it. "I heard you b---hes were missing me at Fashion Week New York," she wrote on Instagram in 2019, while showing off her vibrant green floral ensemble. "I'm here to serve it to you mother-f--kers, and serve it to you cold."

Attending the Thom Browne show in Paris Fashion Week in 2019, the "Press" singer put on her finest fashion. As she noted on Instagram, she called her look, "THE TEACHER."

Cardi knows how to make a state-mint, which is exactly what she did with this Ralph & Russo gown in 2019.

The "Money" rapper went country glam with this custom Bryan Hearns outfit for 2019 Rodeo Houston.

As you can see, Cardi went all out for Rihanna's 2019 Diamond Ball gala and wore an over-the-top baby pink gown.

The 2018 Met Gala theme brought Catholic motifs and religious-inspired designs to the extravagant event, and Bardi took us to church with her ostentatious Moschino gown and headpiece.

Cardi turned up the heat at Coachella 2018 with this custom, white-hot outfit by Bryan Hearns.

She also channeled Linda Evangelista with this 2018 ensemble that was almost identical to what the supermodel wore in the '90s. She dazzled in a bodysuit by Vex Clothing, custom accessories from Laurel Dewitt and vintage boots from Chanel.

Cardi turned heads during Milan Fashion Week with her wild (literally) Dolce & Gabbana ensemble in 2018.

Never one to shy away from bold prints and patterns, the star wore this Moschino dress during a 2017 dinner.

She also made everyone green with envy in her custom emerald two-piece by Vex Clothing, Dare to Be Vintage robe and Balenciaga boots that year.