Nick Cannon Forgets 2 of His 12 Kids’ Names While Sharing If He’ll Have More Children
Nick Cannon is reflecting on fatherhood.
The Masked Singer host wondered if part of the reason he has 12 children is a response to the traumas he’s faced throughout his life.
“I’m learning that now,” Nick shared on The Breakfast Club Sept. 15. “It wasn’t like I was acting out. It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process because I could do it. Because I had the money. Because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move.”
And as he explained, it wasn’t as if he set out to have 12 children, which includes twins Moroccan and Monroe, 14, with ex wife Mariah Carey; Golden, 8, Powerful, 4, and Rise, 2, with Brittany Bell; twins Zion and Zillion, 4, as well as daughter Beautiful, 2, with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary, 3, with Bre Tiesi; and Onyx, 3, with LaNisha Cole. He also shares late son Zen, who died in 2021 at 5 months old from brain cancer, and daughter Halo, 2, with Alyssa Scott.
Nick added, “It was more about like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna just live life and have fun and whatever happens happens. I can handle it.'”
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“Being almost 45 now,” he mused, “I could sit back and like, yeah, if I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work, things might have been a little different in certain scenarios.”
As to whether or not he would have had 12 kids if he’d done that “inner work?”
“I don’t know,” he confessed. “I’ve always said this, every child that I had was made out of love. And there were strong relationships.”
Still, the Wild ’N Out host believes things would have been different if he’d done “the work and the healing” after his 2016 divorce from Mariah.
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“I probably would have took my time in a lot other scenarios,” he said. “And for whatever reason I thought that was the answer a lot of times. Like ‘Oh, I’m gonna figure it out over here.”
Nick added, “Now, you’re leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin.”
For a look at Nick’s sprawling family, keep reading.
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Children No. 1 and 2: Moroccan Cannon and Monroe Cannon
Mariah Carey gave birth to her and Nick’s twins on April 30, 2011. The two announced their split in 2015 after six years of marriage and finalized their divorce a year later.
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Child No. 3: Golden “Sagon” Cannon
Beauty queen Brittany Bell gave birth to her and Nick’s first child together, a boy, on Feb. 21, 2017.
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Child No. 4: Powerful Queen Cannon
Brittany and Nick welcomed their second baby together, a girl, in December 2020.
Instagram / Abby De La Rosa
Child No. 5 and 6: Zion Mixolydian Cannon and Zillion Heir Cannon
DJ Abby De La Rosa gave birth to her and Nick’s twin boys on June 14, 2021.
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Child No. 7: Zen Cannon
Model Alyssa Scott welcomed a baby boy with Nick on June 23, 2021.
However, just five months after the arrival of their son, Nick shared the devastating news that Zen had passed away from brain cancer. “Alyssa was just the strongest woman I have ever seen,” he said on the Dec. 7 episode of The Nick Cannon Show. “Never had an argument, never was angry. She was emotional when she needed to be but was always the best mom and continues to be the best mom possible. So I’ve got to say thank you to my entire family but specifically to Alyssa.”
“You never know what someone is going through,” he added. “Hug your family. Kiss somebody. Tell them you love them.”
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Child No. 8: Legendary Love Cannon
Model Bre Tiesi welcomed her first child with Nick on June 28, 2022. The baby boy weighed 8 pounds and 10 ounces at birth.
“I did it. An all natural unmedicated home birth,” Bre shared in a July 2022 Instagram post. “This was the most humbling / limit pushing yet awakening and completely empowering experience. I can’t thank my team enough for delivering my son safely.”
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Child No. 9: Onyx Ice Cole Cannon
Nick and model LaNisha Cole welcomed a daughter on Sept. 14, 2022.
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Child No. 10: Rise Messiah Cannon
Brittany gave birth to her third child with Nick on Sept. 23, 2022.
Instagram/Abby De La Rosa
Child No. 11: Beautiful Zeppelin Cannon
Abby gave birth to a baby girl, her third child with Nick, in November 2022.
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Child No. 12: Halo Marie Cannon
Alyssa gave birth to her and Nick’s daughter on Dec. 14, 2022.
The model shared an Instagram video showing the Wild ‘n Out star helping to deliver their baby. “Our lives are forever changed,” she wrote. “Zen is in every breath I take. I know his spirit was with us in the room that morning. I know he is watching down on us. He shows me signs everyday. I will hold onto this memory forever.”
She continued, “I will remember the sound of Nicks voice saying ‘it’s a girl’ and the look of everything we’ve been through flash across his face. I will remember the sound of her crying out with her first breath and feeling her heartbeat against mine. My sweet girl, I got my surprise!! We love you Halo Marie Cannon!”
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