However, there were also those who criticised the rapper for refusing to go public with her news until now.

Responding to these trolls in an Instagram Stories post (which has since been deleted), Cardi B wrote: “This is why I did not want to say nothing.

“People be so thirsty to scrutinise and try to destroy something that it supposes to be a blessing.”

Of course, she is not the first celebrity to attempt to keep her personal life personal: Mindy Kaling, who welcomed her first child in December 2017, didn’t confirm her pregnancy until August that same year.

“It’s so unknown to me,” the Wrinkle In Time actress explained. “I have a lot of control over a lot of aspects of my life, and this is one where I’m like, ‘OK, it’s out of my hands,’ which is kind of a fun feeling”.

Oprah Winfrey had already inadvertently spilled the beans about Kaling’s pregnancy to People the month before – a mishap the actress handled well.

Mindy told Ellen DeGeneres in October: “If anyone is going to announce big news about your private life, Oprah Winfrey is the person. You can’t complain that much about it. And you also can’t be like, ‘Hey, Oprah, zip it’ — because she’s almost like a religious figure. So if there’s one person I have to tell my daughter about that revealed her existence to the world, Oprah is pretty good.”

This is why Cardi B kept her pregnancy a secret until now