Nicki Minaj plans to be a surprisingly traditional mom

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Sara McGinnis

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Nicki Minaj, the booty-jiggling rapper who isn't afraid to push the boundaries, has a future in mind you might not expect. Just one month after announcing her engagement to rapper Meek Mill, the 32-year-old star has opened up to Cosmopolitan about what's down the road for her.

"Ten years from now, I will have two children, unless my husband wants three," Nicki, who doesn't yet have any children, told the magazine.

She went on to elaborate, "I will be into my fitness a lot more, I will stop yo-yo dieting, and I’ll be a housewife with careers that I can run from home. I want to be able to cook for my children, bake cookies for them, and watch them grow up. I just want to be Mommy. Take them to school, go to the parent-teacher conference, help them with their homework, and put their work on the refrigerator."

I can relate to the notion that working from home offers some great flexibility when it comes to also being a parent, but wow -- she's planning to do the whole nine yards way more thoroughly than I ever have!

There are some ways I'm a traditional mom, but in general I don't think of myself that way. On the one hand I am here for my kids after school nearly every day, and I do pretty much all of the grocery shopping and cooking for our family while my husband takes on the yard and remodeling projects. I'm not sure how we fell so squarely into those roles, but it seems to work pretty well for us.

I'm terrible about being involved in the kids' school, however. My husband is the one who checks in on their homework, and he's also the one who chaperones on the field trips and occasionally volunteers in the classroom. The teachers go nuts over having a dad be the one to spend time helping the kids out, and I'm happy to let him take in all the praise.

Isn't it interesting how some musicians and actors plan to take baby with them, mix parenting right into their traveling schedule, and then others think the best route to go is settling down?

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Nicki Minaj -- who was born Onika Tanya Maraj -- is just one of the many stars out there who go by something other than what their birth certificate reads. Take a look at our gallery of celebrity name changers: