While Kareem is Ashanti’s first child, Nelly shares two older kids — Chanelle and Cornell — with his ex-girlfriend Channetta Valentine. He also raised and adopted his niece and nephew, Shawn and Sydney Thomas, after his sister, Jackie Donahue, died of leukaemia in 2005.
For some additional context, Nelly, 50, and Ashanti, 44, quietly got married at the end of 2023. Of course, the couple previously dated back in the 2000s, and rekindled things romantically roughly seven years after breaking up.
