Cardi B dating rumors are heating up after the rapper was spotted multiple times with Nigerian soccer player Maduka Okoye, but neither party has officially confirmed that they are in a relationship.
According to TMZ, Cardi and Okoye were seated beside each other during a group dinner at Gio’s restaurant inside the St. Regis in Venice, Italy. The outlet reported that there was no public display of affection, although the two appeared comfortable while talking and enjoying the evening.
The Venice outing followed an earlier appearance at the Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture show during Paris Fashion Week. Per ABC News, their interaction sparked Cardi B dating speculation, but neither Cardi nor Okoye confirmed the rumors. The 26-year-old athlete is a goalkeeper for Udinese Calcio in Italy’s Serie A league and represents Nigeria internationally.
As the internet continues dissecting the sightings, Cardi addressed her overall dating life during a recent X Spaces conversation. Cardi acknowledged that her choices in men have sometimes created drama, but she argued that dating anyone with an ex or a child’s mother can bring complications.
“Could I pick better men? Probably maybe so, whatever, but even if I do. One thing about it, two things for sure. I’m telling you this since I was 20 since I was 20. As long as a has a baby mom, f**k a baby mom. As long as a have an ex-girlfriend, just an ex-girlfriend itself. This is going to happen.”
“When I was 20-years-old, I was dating this guy. He was dating this crazy a** white girl. Well, he, he, that was an ex-girlfriend. She was obsessed with me. She was obsessed with me. She was calling my house phone. Yeah, I had a house phone and a cell phone. She was calling me to tell him to leave him alone, all that s**t.”
“She even came to my job, this skinny little white girl. And to the point that I was like, girl, please, I don’t want to get you beat up. Leave me alone, because she was so little. I used to tell her like, please, I don’t want to get you beat up, please. Especially when she’s, when she, that day that she came to my job.”
“And one thing about it. Me and my stripper b***hes, not even Kita and Sweeney, like the other ones that used to hanging out with, they will beat the s**t out of somebody. I was like, please, girl, leave me alone.”
Cardi continued by recalling similar tension involving men she dated before becoming famous.
“Then when I did it, When I dated that scammer that I dated for three years, he had an insane baby mom. Like the, the b***h was even crazier. The b***h was even crazier. She was just f**king insane.”
“Now, Now, if y’all was around the Tommy era, if y’all was really around the Tommy era, if y’all know me from 2014, 2013, y’all know too the baby mom was insane and the list is gonna go on. So unless a man f**king was born the day before yesterday and never dated a girl, never did this and that, this is what always gonna come with it.”
“I don’t know what it is about b***ches. I ruffle their f**king feathers really bad. I just do so.”
The rapper then made it clear that public criticism will not convince her to abandon dating completely.
“BG, I know y’all be expecting me to sometimes be single, be this, be that. I’m not gonna stay single forever. I’m sorry. I’m just, I’m just, I’m just not. I’m not. I need to be entertained. Like life is cool, life is everything, but it’s just like, I, the p***y needs love too, OK.”
“This always f**king calling me, bro. I’m going to, I swear to God, he calls me one more time.”
Cardi’s comments arrived as Okoye’s former partner and the mother of his son, Dutch model Jelicia Westhoff, publicly criticized him. Westhoff accused Okoye of failing to maintain contact with their three year old son, Isaiah, and claimed he was absent during several hospitalizations.
“YOU DONT TAKE CARE OF YOUR 1 and only SON!” Westhoff alleged.
Westhoff also accused Okoye of infidelity and physical abuse. Okoye has not publicly responded to the allegations. For now, Cardi B dating Okoye remains speculation. Her X Spaces comments confirm that she has no intention of staying single forever, but they do not confirm that Okoye is officially her boyfriend.
