It’s difficult to remember just how screwed up Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz’s relationship was in the beginning. So let me recap – Swizz was married to Mashonda, and he was screwing around on Mashonda with multiple women. He has at least four baby-mamas. And his affair with Alicia destroyed his marriage to Mashonda, and Mashonda openly called out Alicia for it. For her part, Alicia has always denied Mashonda’s take on the situation, and since Alicia is more famous in the industry, the industry helped whitewash her relationship with Swizz. I often compared the Alicia-Swizz thing to LeAnn and Eddie – it’s that kind of trashy, messy affair.

But three years ago, Alicia gave birth to her first child with Swizz. Their son, Egypt, was like Swizz’s fourth or fifth (sixth?) kid overall. And since the birth of Egypt, Swizz really has been keeping a lower profile. Or maybe his game has just gotten tighter and more undercover. You never know. In any case, they’re expecting their second child together:

Aww! Alicia Keys and husband Swizz Beatz are expecting their second child together — and the singer made the announcement via Instagram on Thursday, July 31, with the cutest picture of her bump. The Grammy winning musician, who is already mom to 3-year-old Egypt, shared the adorable picture of herself, 33, and her husband, 35, cradling her blossoming belly, as they celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary.

“Happy Anniversary to the love of my life @therealswizzz!!” the “Empire State of Mind” singer wrote. “And to make it even sweeter we’ve been blessed with another angel on the way!! You make me happier than I have ever known! Here’s to many many more years of the best parts of life!”

Last year Keys admitted her and Beatz’s path to love was not straight forward.

“Honestly, I didn’t really like him that much,” the singer told Marie Claire U.K. “I thought he was too ostentatious.”

But after refusing to work together many times, Keys eventually gave in, and discovered she’d been too quick to judge the handsome music producer.

“I think we’ve taught each other a lot,” she says of her husband who she married on the French island of Corsica in 2010. “He’s taught me to live more fully, and I think I’ve taught him to live more deeply.”

[From Us Weekly]

If she’s happy, then good for her. I hope he’s a good husband to her and I hope he’s supporting all of his babies. Fingers crossed this doesn’t end in a terrible scandal where Alicia discovers Swizz has been cheating on her this whole time (except I think that’s totally going to happen at some point).

Photos courtesy of WENN, Instagram.