Ashanti Says She’s Ready to Slow Down, Get Married & Have Kids… But Only with the 'Right Person'

[Theraflu]

Ashanti Says She Wants to 'Slow Down,' Get Married and Have Kids — But Only with the 'Right Person'

"Trust me, there's a lot of guys that want to be my baby daddy — and they've tried," Ashanti tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, opening up about her life and 20-year-long career

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Ashanti Says She Wants to 'Slow Down,' Get Married and Have Kids — But Only with the 'Right Person'​

"Trust me, there's a lot of guys that want to be my baby daddy — and they've tried," Ashanti tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, opening up about her life and 20-year-long career​

More than 20 years into her career, Ashantiis shaping an impressive legacy, reaping the benefits of her hard work and preparing to slow down in order to start a family — eventually.

"I'm hustling and doing what I need to do now, so I can chill a little bit," the R&B icon, 42, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, opening up about successes, hardships and how she's remained grounded throughout decades of fame.


Looking forward, she plans to wrap up her current projects before taking a step back from work to settle down with a partner, get married and have children. "But I have to make sure it's with the right person," says Ashanti, who recently reunited with Nelly for a steamy onstage performance and told Andy Cohen they're in a "better place" following post-breakup tensions. "Trust me, there's a lot of guys that want to be my baby daddy — and they've tried."


Envisioning her ideal future as a mother, she hopes to follow the model that's guided her throughout her own life. "If I have an ounce of my mom's skills, I'm superior, honestly, because my mom is the s—," she says. "My dad is cool too, and my sister. But my mom's a different breed. They don't make human beings like my mom."


Ashanti at her 42nd birthday this year

 

[MikelArteta]

I had my fun I want to settle down at 42 years old

 

[Sweet Pea]

Irv bouta put his bid in again

 

[ORDER_66]

aint she too old for this now???

I mean All 3 holes is mandatory but settling down at 42 having kids???

 

[gho3st]

Aint she 40+ ?

 

[Lord_nikon]

Raw

 

[Braman]

If she froze her eggs years ago, hey cool do you

If she hasn’t I pray she’ll be able to have kids… but this is the exact type of delusional reckless ‘I’m gon reinvent the wheel bc I’m a new age black woman’ behavior that is going to result in a lot of regret.

All that ‘breaking generational curses’ and ignoring—-and even ridiculing—-older black women…they gon learn the hard way

 

[Reptile]

Should've did that in your mid 20s. Stay in the streets.

 

[DaylitoJames]

Aww baby

 

[jilla82]

shyt like this is why these 40 year old bytches on dating apps have "want children" still checked

the level of nonsense women get sold is crazy...
...leaves most of them delusional.

 

[Theraflu]

Aint she 40+ ?

She’s 42

She said she’s been ‘hustling’ and now she’s ready to slow down and settle down

 

[Theraflu]

shyt like this is why these 40 year old bytches on dating apps have "want children" still checked

the level of nonsense women get sold is crazy...
...leaves most of them delusional.

I think the celebs use surrogate or donor egg IVF

 

[Left.A1]

She’s a wealthy celebrity if she wants to do the housewife thing in her 40s I, sure she can find one of these investment banker type bruhs to wife her up

 

[The Pledge]

Have kids? at 40+?

 

[StackBundles]

Y’all nikkas doubting she can get pregnant. I guarantee I can get her pregnant. I would flood that pwussy with so much nut