Nick Cannon is looking back on one of the most intense years of his life, a time when he became a father five times in just twelve months, and now says the whirlwind might not have been as intentional as it seemed at the time.
The 43-year-old TV personality welcomed Legendary Love, Onyx Ice Cole, Rise Messiah, Beautiful Zeppelin, and Halo Marie with four different women in 2022. Speaking candidly to Vulture, Cannon reflected on the sheer pace of that chapter.
“Okay, God, how did I have five kids in one year? Probably careless activity,” he admitted.
Even so, Cannon isn’t closing the door on growing his family further. “The world is a crazy place, I say never say ‘never’!” he said.
Cannon acknowledged that his 12 children are, in part, the “by-product” of his eagerness to please the women he was dating, or single friends who wanted kids.
The Masked Singer host currently has 12 children with six women. He shares 13-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, with ex-wife Mariah Carey. He has three children with model Brittany Bell: Golden Sagon (born February 2017), Powerful Queen (born December 2020), and Rise Messiah (born September 2022).
With Abby De La Rosa, Cannon shares twin boys Zion and Zillion (born June 2021) and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin (born November 2022).He also had two children with Alyssa Scott: son Zen, who tragically died of brain cancer at five months old in December 2021, and daughter Halo Marie, born in December 2022.
Cannon welcomed son Legendary Love with model Bre Tiesi in July 2022 and daughter Onyx Ice Cole with photographer LaNisha Cole in September 2022.
He previously expressed uncertainty about having more children. Speaking to People, he said: “There was a point in time where I was just like, ‘Nah, I’m done.’ And then I was like, ‘Who am I to say that?’ It seemed like it was such an emphatic thing.”
“I never imagined that I would have 12 kids. So, it’s one of those things where I love children. I love my life, and if it could keep going in the direction that it’s going, why not?” he added.