Cardi B admits stripping made her feel "pretty"
The 26-year-old rapper worked in a strip club prior to becoming one of the world's most recognisable music stars, and Cardi has confessed to enjoying the job, insisting she doesn't have any regrets about it
12 December 2018
During a visit to the Satin Dolls strip club in Manhattan, she shared: "A lot of the women here they taught me to be more powerful. I did gain, like, a passion and love to performing. It made me feel pretty."
Asked whether the experience made her feel powerful, Cardi told CBS: "Yes. I'm glad for this chapter in my life.
"A lot of people always want to make fun of me, like, 'Oh, you used to be a stripper.' I don't ever regret it. I don't ever regret it."
The 'Bodak Yellow' hitmaker claimed the experience of working as a stripper meant she became more mature.
She said: "I learned a lot. And I feel like it matured me.
"My biggest ambition was money. Because that's what these women put in my head: 'Nothing is important but the money.'"
However, since becoming an internationally famous star, Cardi feels as though attitudes towards her have changed.
And the New York-born star admitted she cannot understand why people are now so eager to criticise her.
She explained: "When I was, like, a nothing, everybody was rooting. And now that I'm finally here, people have a problem for it. Like, I feel like I work so hard, why do people feel like I don't deserve it?"
Asked whether she tells herself to ignore the criticism, Cardi added: "I do snap out of it. And I do ignore it. It's just like, it drives you insane!"
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