Nelly said in a recent interview that he married Ashanti because he didn’t want her to simply be his “baby mama".
I married Ashanti because I didn’t want her to simply be the mother of my child. After we had dated years ago, went our separate ways, spent roughly a decade apart, and eventually found our way back to each other, our second chance became something much more serious.
When pregnancy became part of the picture, marriage mattered to me. I didn’t want Ashanti to just carry the title of my child’s mother!! I wanted her to be my wife and for us to build our family together.💖
This is the moment a mother in St Petersburg, Russia was swept away in a frozen river in front of her children. It was later confirmed rescue divers never found a body so it's assumed the mother of two is now dead.