Whereas Kareem is Ashanti’s first youngster, Nelly shares two older youngsters — Chanelle and Cornell — together with his ex-girlfriend Channetta Valentine. He additionally raised and adopted his niece and nephew, Shawn and Sydney Thomas, after his sister, Jackie Donahue, died of leukemia in 2005.
For some further context, Nelly, 50, and Ashanti, 44, quietly bought married on the finish of 2023. After all, the couple beforehand dated again within the 2000s, and rekindled issues romantically roughly seven years after breaking apart.
