Nick Cannon Reveals Fathering 12 Children As Trauma Response

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Nick Cannon recently sat down for an interview detailing his mental health and how it linked to having 12 children. During an interview with The Breakfast Club he talked about the mindset he’s held in those years. 

“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 [and] because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move,” he said. “Then, obviously, life happens as well, so it wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna go have 12 kids.’ It was more like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna just live life and have fun and whatever happens, happens. I can handle it.’”

Cannon also spoke on realizing he could have focused more on healing rather than just living in the moment.

 “If I would have did the work [and] the healing after getting divorced, I probably would have took my time in a lot of other scenarios,” he said. “Now, you’re leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin.”

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In recent years Cannon has not only became famous for his talents and business ventures. But he also has been known for expanding his family by having multiple kids by multiple women. 

He shares twins Moroccao and Monroe with Mariah Carey; Golden, Rise, and Powerful with Brittany Bell; twins Zion and Zillion and daughter Beautiful with Abby De La Rosa; son Legendary with Bre Tiesi; daughter Onyx with LaNisha Cole; and daughter Halo with Alyssa Scott, with whom he also had a son named Zen, who passed away at five months old in 2021.