Cardi B on New Life After Offset Divorce

Cardi B is leveling up.

The “Money Bag” rapper shared how her breakup with ex Offset—from whom she filed for divorce in 2024 after seven years of marriage—sparked a major personal transformation.

“I feel like last year a new person was reborn,” she said during the March 31 episode of the Aspire With Emma Grede podcast. “I don’t know if it was the divorce. I don’t know if something woke me up. I feel like I’m definitely a new person.”

As a result, the Grow-Good Beauty founder—who shares kids Kulture, 7, Wave, 4, and Blossom, 18 months, with the Migos alum as well as a 4-month-old baby boy with Stefon Diggs—was more motivated than ever to lock in professionally, even taking cues from other stars in building her own empire.

“A lot of artists or celebrities that have really big, major businesses that are successful, they didn’t build their brand on the second or third year of being big celebrities,” she explained. “They built their brand when they [were] seven to eight to 10 years in the business, and I feel like right now is the perfect time.”