Cardi B Defends Going Back to the Gym One Week After Giving Birth

Cardi B Gives Birth, Welcomes Baby No. 3 With Estranged Husband Offset

Cardi B wants fans to beryllium cautious with the criticism.

A small much than a week aft welcoming her 3rd baby with estranged husband Offset, the “WAP” rapper is responding to commentary aft she shared a video of herself doing 30 minutes of cardio connected a Stair Master.

“Late nighttime gym session,” she wrote in her archetypal post. “No dense lifting, nary value conscionable consecutive step maestro until adjacent week.”

She added arsenic a connection of caution, “Remember ladies this is my 3rd baby… with my different 2 babies I was inactive connected bedrest connected the archetypal week postpartum.”

Now, Cardi, who shares daughter Kulture, 6, and son Wave, 2, with Offset, has explained wherefore she felt the request to kickstart her gym regular again.

“This is my 3rd babe and postpartum is simply a small antithetic from my archetypal two,” the 31-year-old replied to a person on X (formerly Twitter) who called retired the unit for women to “bounce back” aft having a child. “I’m not doing [heavy] lifting, nary musculus straining, squatting nary of that… conscionable cardio. Sometimes to debar postpartum slump you gotta support your caput engaged and for maine that’s enactment and staying active.”

She concluded, “I conscionable was ne'er the benignant to attraction astir drawback backmost aft birth. I don’t cognize what it is astir this clip astir but I person this burst of vigor wherever I privation to bash EVERYTHING… It’s similar I privation to implicit each my goals successful 1 day.”

Cardi and Offset welcomed their girl connected Sept. 7, sharing behind-the-scenes footage from her birth, portion opting not to stock images of the baby's look oregon her name.

The “Bongos” rapper announced her pregnancy—just hours aft filing for a divorcement from the 32-year-old rapper—on Aug. 1 successful a babe bump Instagram station captioned, "With each ending comes a caller beginning! I americium truthful grateful to person shared this play with you, you person brought maine much love, much beingness and astir of each renewed my power! Reminded maine that I tin person it all!"