Nicki Minaj Details Heartbreaking Decision To Have Abortion On Rollingstone

Barbie queen and Young Money rapper, Onika Tanya Maraj a.k.a Nicki Minaj, has revealed a secret heartache that has hung over her like a shadow for years. The 32-year-old has spoken openly for the first time about having an abortion when she was a teenager in a candid new cover interview with America's Rolling Stone Magazine. Detailing the horror of making the decision to terminate a pregnancy at such a young age, she said: 'I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through.

'[It's] haunted me all my life. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.'

The star first hinted at the subject in her 2008 track 'Autobiography', in which she referred to herself as 'mommy'. The topic returned to the spotlight earlier this month when she showed off her vulnerable side in new track 'All Things Go'.

The man who she fell pregnant with was believed to have been an older man from Queens, New York who she met while studying at the revered LaGuardia performing arts school. It's a shockingly honest revelation from the tough hip-hop hitmaker, who prefers to keep her private life out of the public domain.

However, she insists that she wants her fans to know more about her past through the material on her recently-released third record, "The Pinkprint". 'One of my goals was to give people a glimpse into my personal life, because it’s something I’ve kept very private.'

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