Ashanti and Nelly's 関係 timeline: A look at the couple's on-off romance as singer 発表するs pregnancy and 約束／交戦
Ashanti finally 確認するd her pregnancy?after months of rumours that she and Nelly were 推定する／予想するing their first child.
Speaking to Essence, the singer, 43, also 明らかにする／漏らすd she is engaged to the rapper, who is six years her 上級の.
While this will be Ashanti's first child, while Nelly has two children with his former partner Channetta Valentine and also 可決する・採択するd his niece and 甥 - Shawn and Sydney Thomas - after the death of his sister Jackie Donahue.
Nelly, real 指名する?Cornell Iral Haynes Jr, and Ashanti have had an on-off romance going 支援する over two １０年間s.
Look 支援する at the couple's 関係 timeline by reading on.
Ashanti finally 確認するd she and Nelly are 推定する／予想するing their first child, and are engaged (pictured together last month)
The?musical 二人組 (pictured in 2006) met at a Grammy Awards 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in 2003
When did Ashanti and Nelly 会合，会う?
The musical 二人組 first crossed paths at a Grammy Awards 圧力（をかける） 会議／協議会 in January 2003 where 指名された人s were 発表するd.
In a 未来 VH1 Beh ind The Music special, Ashanti 明らかにする／漏らすd Nelly playfully asked for her autograph when they met.?
'I think he was 存在 sarcastic,' she 解任するd, 'and I remember 令状ing it 負かす／撃墜する on the program.
'That picture has been in so many 出版（物）s as something else, but it all started out as a joke. For the 記録，記録的な／記録する, it took him a long time to get my number.'?
In 2005, Ashanti 明らかにする／漏らすd that she and Nelly had 'gone out' but were not in a 関係 (pictured that year)
Ashanti and Nelly 関係 timeline
2005
Ashanti 明らかにする／漏らすd to PEOPLE that she had 'gone out' with Nelly but 主張するd the pair were 'not boyfriend and girlfriend' at the time.
That October, Nelly was spotted at the singer's 25th birthday party, and the Ashanti returned the favour at Nelly's 31st the next month.
2006
In February 2006, the pair were snapped together at the 開始する，打ち上げる part y for Sean 'Diddy' 徹底的に捜すs' new perfume in New York.
The に引き続いて July, the Ashanti brought the rapper as her date to the 首相 of John Tucker Must Die, in which she played Heather - a cheerleader.
As they continued to dodge questions about their 関係 status, they showed up together at another New York event in November.
2007
The pair 共同製作するd for the first time on the song Switch in 2007.
The pair 共同製作するd for the first time on the song Switch in 2007, which they are seen 成し遂げるing the に引き続いて year?
2008
In June 2008, five years on from the first rumours that the pair were dating, Ashanti 率直に teased that they were in a 関係.
She told PEOPLE that they were 'good friends' who spend a lot of time together, but 絶対 支配するd out t hat they were engaged.
However, she foresaw: 'Definitely in the 未来. Haha!'
2009
In another musical 共同, Ashanti appeared in the music ビデオ for Nelly's 団体／死体 On Me, 解放（する）d in December 2009 - just months after rumours that the pair had 分裂（する）.
The song 含むs the lyrics: 'I wanna make you more than just a bone in my closet/ I wanna 勝利，勝つ that type of 関係.'
2010
In October 2010, Nelly 繰り返し言うd that the pair were just friends in an interview with コンビナート／複合体.
'We never 認める that we were together or 支援する together or separated,' he said.
Nelly echoed this message two months later when he spoke to RapUpTV, although hinted that he might want to marry the singer some day.
He said:?'What people don't understand is that I think you really have to be friends first, that's the thing.?
'I'm not a person who wants to be married more than once, I'm not a person who wants to be in a 関係 more than once. You're dying if you leave me.
'権利 now we're friends, I'm married to my work.'
After a 10-year 関係, the two singers (pictured in October 2012) 静かに broke up in December 2012
2013
After continuing 報告（する）／憶測s that Ashanti and Nelly were a couple, rumours surfaced for a second time that they had 分裂（する） up during the summer of 2013.
Ashanti told HOT 97 that they were still 'good friends' with all 井戸／弁護士席 between them.
2014
The pair were seen partying in February 2014 at the 最高の Bowl, but in another interview with HOT 97?the next month, Ashanti continued to be tight-lipped over whether there was ever a 関係 with Nelly.
She repeated that?she had 'no beef' with the rapper, but said: 'I feel like in a 関係, it's like ping-pong.?
'いつかs you love them, いつかs you hate them. That's a real 声明, everyone goes through that.'
2015
A year later, in March 2015, Ashanti seemed to finally 確認する that there had been a 関係 between her and Nelly, but only in 確認するing that the pair had broken up.
She told The Meredith Vieira Show: 'I've been betrayed. You just have to grow. You have to grow up. You have to 受託する 責任／義務 for the things that you do. I'm not a big fan of people 存在 cowards.'
Ashanti appeared on The Meredith Vieira Show in 2015, 説: 'I've been betrayed'
2021
It took a その上の six years for the 二人組 to 再会させる - at Ja 支配する and Fat Joe's Verzuz 戦う／戦い, during which Nelly crossed the 行う／開催する／段階 at one point to give his ex a 抱擁する.
Ashanti took to Instagram Live after the event and said she 'had no idea he was going to be there'.?
She 追加するd: 'I 港／避難所't seen him or spoken to him since we broke up. Si x years or something? So, I didn't know what to 推定する／予想する.'
2022
Over a year later, at the end of 2022, Nelly and Ashanti 成し遂げるd together as they sang 団体／死体 On Me at 力／強力にする 98.3 and 96.1's Under the Mistletoe concert in Arizona.
Weeks later Ashanti told Andy Cohen that the pair were in 'a better place' after the earlier 業績／成果 went viral.
突然に, the pair reconciled in 2023, with rumours first 誘発するd by the Grammy 勝利者s 存在 seen 持つ／拘留するing 手渡すs at a ボクシング match between Gervonta '戦車／タンク' Davis and Ryan Garcia?
2023
突然に, the pair reconciled in 2023, with rumours first 誘発するd by the Grammy 勝利者s 存在 seen 持つ／拘留するing 手渡すs at a ボクシング match?between?Gervonta '戦車／タンク' Davis and Ryan Garc ia that April.
There was another surprise in May, when Ashanti brought her ex out at her Los Angeles show to give a rendition of 団体／死体 On Me and a month later they Stepped out together at an event in Atlanta - their first red carpet together in 11 years.
In August, Nelly 株d a ビデオ of the two cosied up to sing 勧める's Nice & Slow in an Instagram Story, as they 残り／休憩（する）d their 長，率いるs on one another.?'Take it nice and slow! So long! I just want to take it nice and slow!' they sang.
The couple's 再燃するing was 確認するd in September 2023 by Nelly during an interview with Love and Hip Hop 星／主役にするs Rasheeda and Kirk 霜.
Another month later he penned a 噴出するing 43rd birthday 地位，任命する for his partner, calling her 'such a beautiful, an incredible person inside and out and one of the hardest working women I know'. He gifted her a matching Cartier diamond necklace and watch.
Ashanti returned the favour by throwing Nelly a surprise 49th birthday party in November and gave him a vintage 1962 Chevrolet Impala.
すぐに after, rumours began to 循環させる that Ashanti was 妊娠している, with a source 確認するing the news to Us 週刊誌?in Decembe r.
Rumours that Nelly and Ashanti were 推定する／予想するing their first child together were 確認するd in December 2023 (pictured February 2024)
2024
Ashanti finally 公然と 明らかにする／漏らすd her pregnancy, and 約束／交戦, on April 17, 2024, 説: 'This new year of my life is such a blessing 十分な of love, hope, and 予期.
'Motherhood is something that I have looked 今後 to, and 株ing this with my family, fianc? and loyal fans, who have been so supportive of my career, is an amazing experience.'
