Cardi B: net worth, age, height, partner and children

Cardi B, born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar on October 11, 1992, in Manhattan, New York City, is a 34-year-old American rapper, songwriter and entrepreneur whose net worth is estimated at $120 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth, although other published estimates are lower, with Parade listing $100 million in 2026. She rose from social media and Love & Hip Hop: New York to become the first solo woman to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album, with the number one albums Invasion of Privacy and Am I the Drama?. She is the mother of four children.

Quick facts

Biography and early life

Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar was born on October 11, 1992, in Manhattan, New York City, so her birthday falls in mid-October and she turned 34 in October 2026. According to Celebrity Net Worth, she was raised in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx. Her father, Carlos Almánzar, is Dominican, and her mother, Clara Almánzar, is Trinidadian, and she grew up in a Spanish-speaking Caribbean household in New York. Her younger sister is Hennessy Carolina. The names themselves explain her stage name: because her sister was called Hennessy, friends nicknamed Belcalis Bacardi, which she shortened and respelled as Cardi B.

She attended Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and Technology and later enrolled at Borough of Manhattan Community College. At 19 she began working as a stripper, a period she has discussed openly for years, saying the work let her leave an unhealthy relationship, support herself and return to school for a time before dropping out. In the early 2010s she began posting blunt, funny videos about money, relationships and everyday life on Vine and Instagram, building a large online audience before she had any mainstream music career. That audience, and the unfiltered voice that built it, became the foundation everything else was built on: television producers, record labels and eventually Grammy voters all encountered a personality that was already fully formed in public.

Career

Cardi joined VH1’s Love & Hip Hop: New York in its sixth season in 2015 and immediately became one of the show’s breakout stars. While on reality television she began releasing music seriously, appearing on a remix of Shaggy’s Boom Boom in 2015 and releasing the mixtapes Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 in March 2016 and Vol. 2 in January 2017. She left the show after two seasons to concentrate on recording, signed with Atlantic Records in 2017, and released her major-label debut single, Bodak Yellow, on June 16, 2017. The song climbed through the summer and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in September, making her the first female rapper to top the chart with an unaccompanied solo song since Lauryn Hill’s Doo Wop (That Thing) nearly two decades earlier. It was later certified Diamond by the RIAA.

Her debut studio album, Invasion of Privacy, arrived in April 2018 and debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Alongside Bodak Yellow it included Bartier Cardi, Be Careful and I Like It, featuring Bad Bunny and J Balvin, which also reached number one. Every track on the album entered the Hot 100. In February 2019 she won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, becoming the first woman to win that category as a solo performer. Around the same period she appeared on Maroon 5’s Girls Like You, which spent seven weeks at number one, and on DJ Snake’s Taki Taki. Rather than rushing a second album, she spent the following years releasing major singles: Money and Press, Please Me with Bruno Mars in 2019, WAP with Megan Thee Stallion in August 2020, which debuted at number one with 93 million United States streams in its first week, and Up in 2021, another number one that made her the first female rapper with multiple solo chart-toppers. Later releases included Hot Shit, Tomorrow 2 with GloRilla, Bongos and the 2024 top ten single Enough (Miami).

The long-awaited second album, Am I the Drama?, was released on September 19, 2025. According to Celebrity Net Worth and Wikipedia, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 200,000 equivalent album units, making her the only female rapper whose first two albums both debuted at the top of that chart. The album included WAP and Up alongside new singles Outside and Imaginary Playerz. She followed it with the Little Miss Drama Tour, her first full headlining arena tour, which ran from February to April 2026 across 35 shows, sold approximately 453,000 tickets and grossed roughly $70 million according to Celebrity Net Worth and Billboard reporting. Outside music she acted in the films Hustlers in 2019 and F9 in 2021, judged Netflix’s Rhythm + Flow, and starred in the web series Cardi Tries. For new parents among her enormous fan base, the family milestones she posts about land in the same everyday world as a practical roundup of baby shower basket ideas.

Songs and albums

Cardi B has released two studio albums: Invasion of Privacy (2018) and Am I the Drama? (2025), preceded by the mixtapes Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 (2016) and Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2 (2017). Her best-known songs include the following.

• Bodak Yellow (2017)
• Bartier Cardi and Be Careful, from Invasion of Privacy
• I Like It, with Bad Bunny and J Balvin (2018)
• Girls Like You, with Maroon 5, and Taki Taki, with DJ Snake, Selena Gomez and Ozuna
• Money (2018) and Press (2019)
• Please Me, with Bruno Mars (2019)
• WAP, with Megan Thee Stallion (2020)
• Up (2021)
• Hot Shit (2022) and Bongos, with Megan Thee Stallion (2023)
• Enough (Miami) (2024)
• Outside and Imaginary Playerz, from Am I the Drama? (2025)

Net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Cardi B has a net worth of $120 million, a figure the site supports in part with an estimated $70 million valuation for her music catalog rights. Published estimates disagree, and the disagreement is printed here rather than hidden: Parade’s 2026 profile lists $100 million, and many trackers published figures between $80 million and $100 million through 2025 and 2026. Cardi herself publicly pushed back on an $80 million estimate in 2024 as too low. No audited personal balance sheet is public, so every total, including the $120 million anchor used here, is an estimate.

The earnings record behind those estimates is substantial. Celebrity Net Worth traces her tracked net worth from $400,000 in January 2016 to $1.5 million in 2017, $8 million in 2018 and $12 million in 2019, with $28 million earned before taxes across 2018 and 2019 alone. Since then the drivers have been the streaming and catalog value of five Hot 100 number ones, live fees that included a reported $1 million for a roughly 35-minute private performance during Miami Art Basel in December 2022, the roughly $70 million grossing Little Miss Drama Tour in 2026, endorsements and collections with Fashion Nova, Pepsi and Reebok, her co-founded Whipshots vodka-infused whipped cream brand launched with Starco Brands in 2021, and Grow-Good Beauty, the hair-care company she launched in April 2026, whose first release sold out in under an hour according to Celebrity Net Worth. Tour grosses are not personal earnings, since production, crew and venue costs come out first, which is one reason careful trackers separate the $70 million tour figure from the net worth total itself.

Personal life and family

Cardi began publicly dating Offset, of Migos, in early 2017. He proposed on stage in October 2017, but the couple had already secretly married in September 2017. They have three children together: Kulture Kiari Cephus, born on July 10, 2018, Wave Set Cephus, born on September 4, 2021, and Blossom Cephus, born on September 7, 2024. Cardi filed for divorce in September 2020 and withdrew the case after a reconciliation. She confirmed in December 2023 that they had separated, and she filed for divorce again at the end of July 2024, with news of the filing reported on August 1, 2024. On the divorce’s status, the latest reliable reporting available for this profile, from People in 2026, describes her as still legally married to Offset because the divorce had not been finalized; no reliable source checked for this profile confirms a finalization by November 2026.

Her later relationship has been reported only in outline by reliable outlets, and its current status is genuinely unsettled in the public record. According to People, Cardi and NFL wide receiver Stefon Diggs were first seen publicly together at a New York Knicks playoff game in May 2025, and she confirmed the relationship on Instagram weeks later. In September 2025 she confirmed she was pregnant, and the couple welcomed a son in November 2025; his name has not been reliably reported in the sources checked for this profile, so he is not named here. People reported that she pulled away from the relationship in February 2026 around the Super Bowl period, then reported in spring 2026 that the two had been seen together repeatedly, including at her tour and at his charity event, with a source saying Diggs had stepped up and wanted to make the relationship work. Representatives for both did not comment to People. Because reliable sources describe a split followed by unconfirmed reconciliation reports, this profile records both and states plainly that their status as of November 2026 is not confirmed. Her wider family, her parents Carlos and Clara Almánzar and her sister Hennessy Carolina, is covered in the biography section above.

Instagram

Cardi B’s official Instagram account is @iamcardib, the platform where her public career began and where she confirms major personal and professional news herself, including her 2025 relationship confirmation and pregnancy announcements. Because follower counts change daily and vary by source, no exact follower figure is stated as fact here. Readers should rely on the verified @iamcardib account and treat similarly named profiles as fan pages.

Closing summary

Cardi B’s profile is a documented rise from the Highbridge section of the Bronx to the top of the rap industry. Born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar on October 11, 1992, to Carlos and Clara Almánzar, she turned viral videos and two seasons of reality television into Bodak Yellow, the Grammy-winning Invasion of Privacy, a run of five number one singles and, after a seven-year gap, a second number one album, Am I the Drama?, and a $70 million grossing arena tour. The mother of Kulture, Wave, Blossom and a son born in November 2025, she holds an estimated net worth of $120 million according to Celebrity Net Worth, with other published estimates running to $100 million and below.