Rapper Nicki Minaj, 32, recently revealed that she had an abortion when she was a teenager.
"I thought I was going to die," Minaj told Rolling Stone about the time she found out she was pregnant. "I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I'd ever gone through."
At the time, she was pregnant with the child of her first love, who was an older guy from Queens. She was attending the prestigious Manhattan performing-arts high school LaGuardia when she dated him.
Minaj ended up having an abortion. Although it was the right choice for her at the time, she said that decision haunted her all her life.
"It'd be contradictory if I said I wasn't pro-choice. I wasn't ready. I didn't have anything to offer a child," Minaj explained.
On a mixtape track titled "Autobiography," Minaj rapped about her abortion experience for the first time. In it, she says she did not expect "anyone to hear" but now, millions of people are going to hear it so she said she has to watch everything she says as people find an issue with every single thing.
In the interview, the former "American Idol" judge also talked about her single "Anaconda." She described herself as a mature woman in the music video where she stands for "girls wanting to be sexy and dance, but also having a strong sense of themselves."
"If you got a big ol' butt? Shake it! Who cares? That doesn't mean you shouldn't be graduating from college," Minaj added.
In addition, Minaj said that only Beyonce's husband Jay Z and Lil Wayne can "brag about not writing rhymes, or doing things really quickly, and then it's not great" but other artists should just sit down and "figure out something new to say."