Cardi B used to "stuff her jeans" to make her butt and thighs look thicker.
The 33-year-old rapper did not feel comfortable wearing jeans as a teenager because she was insecure about her figure, so she stuffed them with two or three pairs of tights after worrying her backside looked "extra flat" in skinny jeans.
Cardi told People: "When I was like a teenager, that used to be something I was really insecure about - so I used to stuff my jeans.
"I would put like two, three tights under my jeans so my butt and my thighs could be thicker. Being from the hood or, you know, my culture, being thick is better. I always was scared for my butt to look extra flat in jeans.”
Now, the Up artist - real name Belcalis Almanzar - lets her mood dictate how she dresses.
She said: "Sometimes I wanna dress like a ho. Sometimes I wanna dress really professional. Sometimes I wanna give fashion. Sometimes I wanna give red carpets. Sometimes I want the boobs out. Sometimes I wanna be more conservative."
But ultimately, the Grammy winner likes to feel "sexy and comfortable".
Cardi said: "I like wearing a nice tight shirt on top with a little bit of cleavage, with some long pants, sweats or jeans. That’s really my style. Sexy up here, really cool and chill in the bottom. That’s really my thing."
Last month, the WAP performer said she had her bum injections “reduced”.
At 21, Cardi received biopolymer injections to shape and enlarge her backside, but now she has revealed she underwent surgery in January 2024 to make the effects smaller because of her 5ft 3in frame.
During a recent Instagram Live session, she said: “A lot of y’all keep telling me to go get my ass reduced. I don’t need to go get my ass reduced, news flash, I did get my ass reduced.”
Cardi noted that she “can’t just go and lipo my butt” - a procedure where suction is used to remove fat from other parts of the body to shape other areas - because her “skin is like kinda loose”, which is “why my a** shakes so much”.
She continued: "So if I just go and get a lipo reduction, that is the easy way, my ass could drop.
"So I would have to cut myself. And I’m not cutting myself. I’m not sitting down for four months. I’m outside, like I said. I like my body how it looks right now. I’m comfortable in my skin."
Cardi added: “I’m very, very honest. First of all, I got two lipos and one ass reduction.”
The artist had her bum “reduced” because she is a “small girl”.
Cardi then called out the trolls who have been judging her body.
She said: "Y’all acting like y’all new to this. Y’all been seeing my body for how many years now? Too many.
"Oh, ‘You look super super snatched.’ Yes, b****, just stop hating. I’ll tell you what I do so I could look snatched."
