{"id":279041,"date":"2019-09-01T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T20:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1069570"},"modified":"2019-09-01T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T20:53:54","slug":"nicki-minaj-feels-unconditionally-loved-by-kenneth-petty-after-opening-up-about-past-toxic-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/nicki-minaj-feels-unconditionally-loved-by-kenneth-petty-after-opening-up-about-past-toxic-relationships\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicki Minaj Feels &#8221;Unconditionally Loved&#8221; by Kenneth Petty After Opening Up About Past &#8221;Toxic&#8221; Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201946\/rs_600x600-190506174654-600-2019-met-gala-red-carpet-fashionsnicki-minaj.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.756578947368\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.289473684211\">\n<p>The <em>Queen<\/em> has spoken.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nicki_minaj\">Nicki Minaj<\/a><\/strong> is opening up about love and getting real about her past relationships, which she&nbsp;shares weren&#8217;t always the healthiest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When u see a woman in a toxic relationship, rather than laugh &amp; say mean things, try to offer sound advice from your heart &amp; root for her to learn her worth,&#8221; the 36-year-old star&nbsp;began her <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1168239913034104832\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">series of tweets<\/a> on Sunday afternoon. &#8220;We&#8217;ve all been there. I saw my parents fight &amp; argue non stop &amp; never divorce, so I thought this was normal behavior&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the <em>Queen<\/em> rapper, she explained that she thought &#8220;love had to hurt&#8221; when she was in a relationship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I rlly used to think love had to hurt. So I could never look down on anyone else,&#8221; she said online. &#8220;We are merely human. It&#8217;s not easy to leave. Especially in the world of IG where all ppl want to do is post relationship goal pics for clout &amp; attention. A man should make you feel safe, not afraid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9\">\n<p>Minaj opened up even more and recalled being &#8220;afraid to speak&#8221; when she knew her&nbsp;partner at the time was in a &#8220;mood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I could maybe say one wrong thing that would get me hit,&#8221; she shared. &#8220;So the diff you see in me now is that feeling when a woman feels lifted up, safe, appreciated &amp; unconditionally loved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"55.449386503067\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.478527607362\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">When u see a woman in a toxic relationship, rather than laugh &amp; say mean things, try to offer sound advice from your heart &amp; root for her to learn her worth. We\u2019ve all been there. I saw my parents fight &amp; argue non stop &amp; never divorce, so I thought this was normal behavior&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1168239913034104832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"54.823151125402\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"12.379421221865\">\n<p>&#8220;But I first had to learn how to love MYSELF,&#8221; she added. &#8220;If you wouldn&#8217;t let a man treat your mother, your sister or best friend like that b\/c you LOVE them, then you wouldn&#8217;t let a man treat YOU like that b\/c you love YOU. This isn&#8217;t about judging. We judge too much. Lift them up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her empowering message about love and relationships comes nearly three weeks after many of her fans believed she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1051731\/nicki-minaj-and-kenneth-petty-officially-get-marriage-license-despite-announcing-they-already-had-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">secretly tied the knot with her longtime love<\/a>,&nbsp;<strong>Kenneth Petty<\/strong>. After taking his last name on social media and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1051731\/nicki-minaj-and-kenneth-petty-officially-get-marriage-license-despite-announcing-they-already-had-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getting a marriage&nbsp;license<\/a>&nbsp;a month before that, it&#8217;s clear Nicki is&nbsp;happier and more in love than ever before.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"57.224522292994\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"13.242038216561\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Dear all of you beautiful souls.<\/p>\n<p>A man who loves you does not:<\/p>\n<p>1. Humiliate you on social media<br \/>2. Beat you<br \/>3. Cheat on you<br \/>4. Call you out of your name\/put you down to lower your self esteem due to his own insecurities.<br \/>5. Hide his phone, passwords, where abouts, etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mrs. Petty (@NICKIMINAJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NICKIMINAJ\/status\/1168241844792119297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>In fact, the couple goes way back. In June, she revealed she and her boo met when she was only 15-years-old and known as her birth name (and not her stage name)&nbsp;<strong>Onika Tanya Maraj<\/strong>. Now, it seems they&#8217;re both ready to take their relationship to the next level.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1069570\/nicki-minaj-feels-unconditionally-loved-by-kenneth-petty-after-opening-up-about-past-toxic-relationships?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Queen has spoken. Nicki Minaj is opening up about love and getting real about her past relationships, which she&nbsp;shares weren&#8217;t always the healthiest. &#8220;When u see a woman in a toxic relationship, rather than laugh &amp; say mean things, try to offer sound advice from your heart &amp; root for her to learn her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-24 19:11:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}