Major Music Star: Having an Abortion Has 'Haunted Me All My Life

Famed singer and rapper Nicki Minaj told Rolling Stone that having an abortion as a teenager has "haunted" her all her life.

Rapper Nicki Minaj appears on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on December 16, 2014.
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The 32-year-old said she thought she was "going to die" when she found out she was pregnant in high school, and added that ending her pregnancy was "the hardest thing I'd ever gone through."

Rolling Stone reported that the father was an "older guy from Queens" Minaj was dating while attending a performing arts school in Manhattan called LaGuardia.

"It'd be contradictory if I said I wasn't pro-choice," Minaj added. "I wasn't ready. I didn't have anything to offer a child."

Though Minaj believes she made the right decision, she has carried the choice with her since she made it.

Us Weekly noted that Minaj raps about her abortion in one of her new songs, "All Things Go."

"My child with Aaron would've been 16 any minute," she says in the song.

Minaj also referenced her abortion in an early song called "Autobiography," which she said at the time she "didn't expect anyone to hear."

The singer, who recently released her third album, has started speaking about her desire to become a mother.

She told Complex magazine in November: "If I'm done with my fifth album and I don't have a child by then, no matter how much money I have, I would be disappointed, as a woman, because I feel like I was put here to be a mother."

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