Nick Cannon On Having Five Babies In Six Months
For reference, the 44-year-old star has 12 kids in total, sharing 14-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with his ex-wife Mariah Carey, 8-year-old Golden Sagon, 4-year-old Powerful Queen, and 2-year-old Rise Messiah with Brittany Bell, 4-year-old twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir and 2-year-old Beautiful Zeppelin with Abby De La Rosa, 3-year-old Legendary Love with Bre Tiesi, 2-year-old Onyx Ice Cole with LaNisha Cole, and 2-year-old Halo Marie with Alyssa Scott. Nick and Alyssa also share son Zen, who was born in June 2021 and diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer at 2 months old. Zen died in December 2021 at just 5 months old.
And if you're struggling to keep up, it is Legendary, Onyx, Rise, Beautiful, and Halo who were all born between July and December of 2022.
Speaking to Vulture recently, Nick candidly opened up about his wild fatherhood journey, which the publication says he told them was 'a by-product of his eagerness to appease the women he was dating or his single friends who wanted kids.'
'It was also a little bit of, like, OK, God, how did I have five kids in one year? Probably careless activity,' Nick then admitted, before refusing to rule out having more kids in the future by teasing: 'The world is a crazy place. I never say 'never!''
Nick's brood has triggered backlash several times over the years, most recently last month when he struggled to name all 12 of his children during an appearance on The Really Good Podcast with Bobbi Althoff.
When Bobbi asked Nick to list all dozen kids, he was immediately hesitant, and told her: 'Right, this is usually where I get in trouble.'"I know all of them, but when you label... Like, can you label or just rattle off 12 of anything?' he continued, but after some back and forth, he got down to business."There's Rock (Moroccan), Roe (Monroe), Golden, Powerful, Rise, Onyx, Legendary, Zion, Zillion, Zen, and...see this is where I...ugh...how many is that?" Nick asked Bobbi, after a short pause, he realized: 'I'm missing two. Oh, yeah, did I say Beautiful? There's Beautiful and then there's Halo, my youngest.'
And last year, Nick was dragged online after he told People that he wanted to give his children 'the opportunity to connect' with him on Father's Day.
"It's supposed to be a day where I get to rest,' he admitted at the time. 'But I want to give all my kids the opportunity to connect and give me gifts, and all that type of stuff. It's a fun day and I appreciate all the love that I get on that day."Nick's choice of words raised eyebrows across social media, with the star being dragged for seemingly treating the family day as some kind of meet and greet.
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