Honey, Nicki Minaj and her husband Kenneth Petty’s son, whom they affectionately call Papa Bear, is larger than life! Minaj shared pictures from her Halloween celebration, which included shots from a photoshoot that paid tribute to the film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997).
In contrast to the classic, Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1989), Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves features the kids at giant size and the parents as smaller than life. Nicki and Kenneth followed the film’s direction by making themselves small in the photoshoot. Their son was, of course, larger than life as he crawled around the set.
“HONEY, I BLEW UP #PapaBear, Nicki Minaj exclaimed in her social media post. “Starring #PapaBear and a couple other random ppl,” the celebrity mom mused. “In theaters this Halloween,” she said in reference to her family’s Halloween depiction.
Nicki Minaj has been a doting mom since welcoming her son in 2020. “I see myself as a baby in my son and because of that, it reminds me of moments that I had probably forgotten over time, just of me being a toddler in Trinidad,” the rapper shared during a recent conversation with Jada Pinkett-Smith.
“First of all, being a mother is the biggest freaking blessing on planet earth,” the recording artist said. “I’m so happy that god allowed me to experience this,” Nicki shared. “I’ve always loved children and I’ve always been great with children, but in the last few years I started thinking, I know it’s going to be a huge shift for me because I’m used to going wherever I want, whenever I want, and I knew having a baby was going to change all that. But I absolutely love it,” the doting mom declared.
“I love my son so much that I don’t know if it’s normal, but it seems unhealthy because I took too long to start working and leaving him to be watched by anyone, so now I have this real bad separation anxiety. So that’s not good,” Nicki admitted to Jada.
“I was afraid to bring people around him when he was a tiny, tiny baby,” Minaj revealed to Pinkett-Smith. “When I was 2 years old, my parents left me in Trinidad. Of course, I was very attached to my mother, and in my little toddler mind, I thought I was going to see her the next day. And she was gone for two years, so that’s a big part in my development,” Nicki shared.
“In fact, right before I came to the States, my mother had to come to Trinidad because I had to have an operation. And when I opened my eyes from the operation, and I was maybe 3 years old going on 4, I started crying because I didn’t know who this lady was.”
“I was crying at the side of my mother, and I started begging my cousin, who was a teenager, to come be in the room with me because that’s who I had gotten attached to in the year-and-a-half prior,” Minaj said of her younger years. “So I’m reliving all of those things now because I’m afraid that my son will ever feel that I left him for anything, for any reason, and for any amount of time,” the celebrity mom shared.
Papa Bear celebrated his second birthday in September. He is Nicki Minaj and Kenneth Petty’s only child.
Photo: Nicki Minaj/Instagram
