Nick Cannon admits he was being 'careless' and 'frivolous' in fathering 12 children Ryan ColemanSeptember 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM 0 Nick Cannon/Instagram Nick Cannon with children Zillion Heir, Legendary Love, Zion Mixolydian, and Beautiful Zeppelin Nick Cannon is reflecting on his reasons for controver...
- - Nick Cannon admits he was being 'careless' and 'frivolous' in fathering 12 children
Ryan ColemanSeptember 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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Nick Cannon with children Zillion Heir, Legendary Love, Zion Mixolydian, and Beautiful Zeppelin
Nick Cannon is reflecting on his reasons for controversially fathering 12 children with six women over the past 14 years.
"A lot of it, if we're being completely honest, a lot of it is the trauma that I was experiencing of not knowing how to handle divorce. You know what I mean? And me acting out because I'm like, 'Oh, I'm the man now,'" Cannon shared on a recent interview on The Breakfast Club.
"Instead of healing and doing what I should have actually did, I just jumped out there," Cannon surmised, reflecting on the relationships with each of his former partners as "distractions from the actual work that I probably should have done." Now, Cannon is in therapy, which he said allowed him to "slow down." But during his peak fathering years, he recalled thinking, "'Look, I just got to keep making money. I got to stay hot. I got to stay funny. Everything else will figure itself out. And I just didn't do the work. So then I looked up, you know, 12 kids later."
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Cannon got his start as a teenager opening for acts like Will Smith and Montel Jordan as part of the rap group Da G4 Dope Bomb Squad. But a three-year stint on the popular Nickelodeon variety series All That launched him to fame, leading to his own series, The Nick Cannon Show, and subsequent hosting gigs for shows like America's Got Talent and his current post at The Masked Singer.
As Cannon segued out of young adult stardom and into adult fame, he met and married Mariah Carey in 2008. Three years later, Carey gave birth to fraternal twins Moroccan and Monroe. But in 2014, the couple separated, and by 2016 they were divorced. Following the Carey split, Cannon fathered 10 additional children with five women in six years.
"I'm like, 'Wow, I could have done things very differently. But I stand firm on all of my decisions, because I love all my kids, I love my family infrastructure. But I know it all started from a place of pain and not really healing properly," Cannon reflected. "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."
Cannon said he didn't set out to have a dozen children, and though he doesn't regret it, he believes that if he had "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."
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Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey with children Moroccan and Monroe
Beyond the number of children he's fathered, Cannon has gained notoriety for the unique names he's bestowed upon his progeny.
Following the birth of Moroccan and Monroe, Cannon fathered Golden Sagon, Rise Messiah, and Powerful Queen with ex Brittany Bell; Zen, who died at five months old, and Halo Marie with ex Alyssa Scott; twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, as well as daughter Beautiful Zeppelin with ex Abby De La Rosa; son Legendary Love with ex Bre Tiesi; and daughter Onyx Ice Cole with ex LaNisha Cole.
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Cannon has offered different explanations for his prodigious reproduction over the years, including recently joking that it's because he thinks of himself as "a king." During that same interview, Cannon was challenged to name all of his children, but left out Beautiful Zeppelin and Halo Marie.
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