Nicki Minaj admits her marriage to Kenneth Petty “got testy” following the birth of their son.

The “Barbie World” rapper — who welcomed her baby boy in September 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic — said in a new interview that she and her husband navigated their son’s infant stage without any help other than a few visits from a grandparent.

“I’m not going to lie, things got testy between us,” she told Vogue in her December 2023 cover, published Thursday. “Because of our history, I think we knew we’d get past it. But there’s no such thing as confidence in parenthood.”

She added, “I kind of wish that someone had told me — although I’m sure I wouldn’t have been able to understand it — that there’s a level of anxiety, and you think it’s going to go away, but in fact it gets scarier.

“So often you think: I don’t know how to do this!”

Nicki Minaj on the cover of Vogue.
Nicki Minaj said things got “testy” between her and her husband, Kenneth Petty, following the birth of their son.Norman Jean Roy for Vogue
Minaj, whose real name is Onika Tanya Maraj, and Petty met in the ’90s while attending the same high school in New York City.

They lost touch for years before reconnecting in late 2018.

The couple tied the knot in October 2019.

Nicki Minaj and her son in Vogue.
“Because of our history, I think we knew we’d get past it. But there’s no such thing as confidence in parenthood,” she told Vogue.Norman Jean Roy for Vogue

The “Super Bass” rapper, 40, announced on Instagram in July 2020 that she and Petty, 45, were expecting their first child.

“#Preggers💛,” she captioned a photo of herself cradling her baby bump in a bejeweled bikini and lucite high heels.

The pair have not revealed their now-3-year-old son’s name, only publicly referring to him as “Papa Bear.”

Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty at a Marc Jacobs NYFW event in 2020.
The “Super Bass” rapper and Petty tied the knot in 2019.GC Images

Nicki Minaj, Kenneth Petty and their son.
They welcomed their son, nicknamed “Papa Bear,” in September 2020.Instagram/ Nicki Minaj

Elsewhere in the Vogue article, Minaj talked about parenting choices that she and Petty have made for their son, including not allowing him to eat sweets or drink juice “because of illnesses like diabetes that run in our community.”

“I’m not in favor of body positivity if it means unhealthy bodies,” she shared. “That’s bull. It’s not believable, so let’s stop pretending.”

Nicki Minaj, Kenneth Petty and their son.
Minaj revealed to Vogue that they do not allow their son, now 3, to eat sweets or drink juice.Instagram/ Nicki Minaj

Outside of his marriage to Minaj, Petty has made headlines for a string of legal issues.

The registered sex offender was convicted of attempted rape in the first degree in April 1995 for assaulting a then-16-year-old girl, for which he served more than four years in prison.

Then, this past September, Petty was placed on house arrest after threatening Offset, the husband of Minaj’s foe Cardi B.