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While accepting the award from the favorite rap / hip-hop artist, Cardi B says she had to prove to people that she could succeed after having a baby.
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The new mom Cardi B really understood about childbirth and motherhood when she stopped at "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Wednesday. "Adapting to motherhood in the limelight is not only a challenge," she said, "but giving birth to her baby, Kulture, hurt her a lot worse than expected.

"I do not want to show my baby to the public yet," rapper "Bodak Yellow" in Kimmel. "I just want to protect her, I'm not mentally ready, so it's as if the paparazzi were everywhere, even in my (expletive)."

She added, "I would like to do normal things with my baby, but for now, I have to stay very discreet," she said.

With regard to these normal activities, she said, "I want to go to the beach with my baby, I want to walk down the street with my baby, and I can not because I do not know who is next to me and who has certain intentions. "

And then was the physical impact of childbirth, for which Cardi B admitted that she was not quite prepared.

When Kimmel asked her if childbirth was easier or harder than she thought, she confessed that it was "totally more difficult" and stated that the baby Kulture l & # 39; had "broken".

"Nobody told me that they were going to sting my vagina," she said. "People just say" Oh, you know when you give birth, it's going to hurt, but nobody tells you. "

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The delivery room was packed to accommodate her daughter Kulture when Cardi gave birth. Offset's husband, sister Hennessy Carolina, her publicist, her parents and her mother-in-law were all present for the birth of the baby.

Pain and paparazzi aside, Cardi told Kimmel that she loves being a mother.

"It's the best," she says. "It's like" Oh my God, I should have been when I was a teenager! It's what I miss all my life? I t & # 39; Like, & # 39; "

Not as good for the 26 year old mother? Kulture already has a "feisty" attitude of Cardi. "I'm like" Oh snap, I'm already seeing it coming, "she says jokingly that the three-month-old baby is" very demanding ".

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