A Complete Guide to Nick Cannon's Sprawling Family Tree

Nick Cannon, Father of 12, Insures His Balls for $10 Million

"We're present to beryllium fruitful and multiply."

So Nick Cannon said successful 2016, years earlier insuring his baby-making parts for $10 million. 

"That's what our beings are made for," helium explained to ABC News, truthful we tin rise our offspring up truthful they tin person offspring, and generations aft generations."

At the time he was a begetter of twins with soon-to-be ex-wife Mariah Carey. But the already mercilessly engaged vigor and TV host said he was "not against" having much kids. 

"I speech astir that each the time," Cannon said. "I emotion children. Everybody knows that. Whether it's having much of my own, oregon adopting, whatever, I emotion that process. Kids benignant of bring that vibrant broadside [out] of maine truthful whenever I tin beryllium a portion of that process I'm with it."

Consider Cannon a man who doesn't conscionable speech the talk.

Cannon has said that Carey was the 1 who made him consciousness acceptable to commencement the household helium truthful wanted. And vice versa, the Grammy victor detailing successful her 2020 autobiography The Meaning of Mariah Carey that, by the clip she met Cannon, who's 11 years her junior, she had beauteous overmuch resigned herself to not becoming a mom. The ex-Mrs. Tommy Mottola besides did not want to get remarried, she recalled.

"Having children unneurotic became our reason," Carey wrote of her 2nd marriage. "Our tendency to person children became a unit of quality and wherefore we got joined truthful quickly."

"It benignant of shook america some and took america into a spot that was truly acheronian and difficult," Carey told Access Hollywood in October 2010. "When that happened… I wasn't capable to adjacent speech to anybody astir it. That was not easy."

Added Cannon, "It decidedly brought america person together. It strengthened our narration truthful much… She handled it truthful well."

And determination were happier times ahead, arsenic it was successful that interrogation that they revealed they were expecting again. Carey said she was tense astir saying it retired large due to the fact that of the past trauma, but was astatine the point in her pregnancy wherever "I either speech oregon I hibernate."

Daughter Monroe and lad Moroccan were born connected April 30, 2011, their parents' 3rd wedding anniversary. The couple, who were fond of vow renewals, had their ceremonial that twelvemonth astatine the hospital.

But portion they were madly successful emotion with their kids, Carey and Cannon started to autumn retired of sync with each other, taking clip isolated in 2014, reconciling and past separating again earlier Cannon filed for divorce successful December 2015.  

Cannon said successful a June 2016 interview that they were getting on well, helium was blessed for Carey's newfound happiness with her Australian billionaire fiancé James Packer, and they were "diligently moving things along" successful their divorcement proceedings.

"I've been reflecting rather a spot connected my beingness arsenic a begetter and however I privation to beryllium the champion 1 I tin be, the mode my begetter figures were to me," Cannon added. "So with that said, I conscionable inquire that the nationalist continues to respect our process and stay diligent and loving arsenic maine and my household purpose for happiness."

Carey, who wasn't successful a holding-back temper successful her memoir, had lone affirmative things to accidental astir the begetter of her now 13-year-old twins. "We volition ever beryllium family, and we marque it work," she wrote. "We inactive person fun, reminisce and joke. And we some are definite that Roc and Roe are so our light. Every time they springiness america caller life."

"I wanted to marque definite it was idiosyncratic who was solid, spiritual and had the aforesaid views," Cannon added of Bell. "She's been successful my life. Our families grew up successful the aforesaid projects unneurotic successful San Diego. So there's a batch of substance there."

When Stern teased Cannon astir hardly having clip for the 2 kids helium already had, the merry multitasker chuckled, insisting, "That's not true. Yes [I person time], I emotion children, this is going to beryllium amazing!" All of the kids were going to beryllium successful the aforesaid city, helium explained, and helium didn't foresee immoderate issues with blending families.

He and Bell welcomed son Golden "Sagon" Cannon on Feb. 21, 2017.

Doting-dad presumption aside, Cannon made thing wide to Stern and Robin Quivers when she asked what Monroe and Moroccan would telephone his adjacent wife: "I'm ne'er getting joined again! Hell no!" helium exclaimed. "That doesn't marque sense, matrimony is not for me."

A mates years later, Cannon's views connected matrimony hadn't changed—and helium didn't deliberation overmuch of monogamy, either.

T.I. noted, "It don't look similar you've looked backmost since."

Cannon replied, "Right, exactly. So but I conscionable know, similar adjacent successful that thing, similar I cognize I'll ne'er beryllium successful a narration again, I cognize I'll ne'er get joined again. So I'm tryin' to hole that s--it up." Meaning, "I don't privation to beryllium liable for anybody else's happiness...Like, I'm inactive trying to get my s--t together."

He wanted to person much kids, helium said, but helium besides reiterated that accent puts him successful the infirmary (he's been candid astir dealing with complications from lupus) "and, to me, each relationships adjacent stress. I ain't ne'er been successful a narration that wasn't stressful, whether I'm putting the accent connected myself oregon whether she puttin' the accent connected me."

Cannon told T.I. erstwhile asked that helium respected those who chose the polyamorous lifestyle, "but maine personally, that's excessively overmuch of a conception with excessively galore rules successful it. Like I don't privation to answer to nobody, I don't privation 5 oregon six [partners]. I privation to beryllium by my goddamn self."

"Forever," helium vowed. "I got 'lonesome' tattooed connected my neck, I'm good."

Forever, maybe, but not each the time. 

"I emotion women," Cannon added. "I emotion assorted women, and they recognize however I move!"

Bell revealed connected Instagram connected June 13, 2020, that Golden was going to beryllium a large brother. And six months later...

"The champion acquisition ever we person been amazed with... A GIRL!!!!!" she captioned a pic of the household of four, Cannon suited up similar Santa and the newborn successful her arms, on Dec. 25, 2020. "Powerful Queen Cannon came this week cleanable timing for Christmas. So overmuch much to share. All I tin accidental is that Nick was my stone done the astir aggravated yet empowering earthy h2o birth. It was thing but POWERFUL."

Then conscionable a few weeks later, connected the Jan. 11 occurrence of Fox Soul's Hollywood Unlocked with Jason Lee, model Jessica White said that she had miscarried Cannon's baby 2 weeks earlier Bell announced the erstwhile June that she was large with her 2nd baby.

"She was alert that I conscionable had a miscarriage 2 weeks anterior to her quality coming retired due to the fact that helium told maine that helium told her," she alleged. "I was surviving astatine his house, and she knew that arsenic well."

But White said she did not cognize that Bell was pregnant, too. "I recovered retired connected Instagram on with the remainder of the world," she told Lee. (In his instauration to the episode, Lee referred to Cannon arsenic White's fellow of six years, though it's unclear whether Cannon categorized it that way.) Before this revelation, White explained, haters had travel astatine her connected societal media, calling her a homewrecker due to the fact that Cannon had seemingly near Bell and their lad to beryllium with White.

Six days later, connected Father's Day, Alyssa Scott posted to Instagram Story a photograph of her visibly large self with a man cradling her belly, his look turned distant but his signature turban and tattoos fundamentally announcing "Look, it's Nick Cannon!"

"Celebrating you today," Scott captioned the shot. (Hawaii-based lensman Nick Andrew then shared much photos from the maternity shoot, 1 of which showed a spot much of the expectant dad's face—and helium tagged @nickcannon on with Scott successful the caption reading, "A caller chapter.")

Back connected May 6, 2021, Scott had captioned a maternity shot, "My son, I emotion you." But this was the archetypal notation of who her baby's begetter was.

When that quality deed the fan, De La Rosa deleted a clump of Instagram posts, including her gestation announcement, but a changeable of her cradling her newborn sons remained. 

Scott and Cannon's son Zen was born June 23, 2021—but on Dec. 7, Cannon shared connected his eponymous speech amusement that their 5-month-old had died of complications from a encephalon tumor. He revealed that the babe had undergone country but astir Thanksgiving his condition took a crook for the worse.

"Alyssa was conscionable the strongest pistillate I person ever seen," helium said. "Never had an argument, ne'er was angry. She was affectional erstwhile she needed to beryllium but was ever the champion ma and continues to beryllium the champion ma possible. So I've got to accidental convey you to my full household but specifically to Alyssa."

Cannon waited until Jan. 31, 2022, to denote connected his speech amusement that Bre Tiesi was pregnant with his eighth child—and adjacent that was hastened along when photos from their gender-reveal enactment surfaced implicit the preceding weekend.

Scott broke her soundlessness connected that news the aforesaid day, penning connected Instagram that it was "painful having my lad beryllium a portion of conversations that aren't successful alignment with his airy and legacy. It isn't thing I chose for him oregon myself." But she wanted her supporters to know, she added, "I americium centered, I americium astatine peace. I look astatine everyone's predicament with loving eyes. I volition not judge. I volition consciously determine what I volition enactment in. I americium surrounded by love." (That June, she and Cannon launched the Zen's Light foundation to payment pediatric wellness care.)

Tiesi said connected E! News' Daily Pop in March 2022 that she and Cannon had been "on-and-off for years" since meeting a decennary anterior on Wild 'n Out—and adjacent aft marrying and divorcing football subordinate Johnny Manziel during 1 of those "off" periods, she ever came backmost for more.

"I conscionable respect and emotion who helium is truthful overmuch arsenic a person," the Selling Sunset star said, "that erstwhile I thought about, 'Do I privation my lad to beryllium this person? Look astatine your characteristics, look astatine your personality, look astatine however you dainty people...' That's what is truthful overmuch much important to maine than anything. And helium treats maine amazing, truthful that's each I look at."

As for any scrutiny of their definition-resistant partnership, Tiesi said, "I deliberation immoderate radical person their thought of accepted relationships and definite things. But we person a beauteous relationship. Everything is truthful supportive and positive."

Cannon besides defended his family planning to Men's Health, telling the publication, "I've seen wherever radical judge a accepted household works, and [yet] there's a batch of toxicity successful that setting. It's not astir what nine deems is right. It's like, what makes it close for you? What brings your happiness? What allows you to person joyousness and however you specify family? We each specify household successful truthful galore antithetic ways."

Tiesi gave commencement to their son Legendary Love Cannon at location connected June 28, 2022.

Meanwhile, De La Rosa had announced June 3 connected societal media that she was pregnant again—but didn't instantly identify Cannon arsenic the father.

But aft they celebrated their twins' day with a June 14 travel to Disneyland, she wrote, "The satellite tin accidental what they privation but you spell ABOVE AND BEYOND for america and for that we're everlastingly grateful for you. It's not lone my Birthing time but Yours too! We created magic @nickcannon and it shows."

On July 15, 2022, she posted pics from a trip to the Bahamas with Cannon, calling him her "newly engaged babe daddy," which prompted a guffaw from him.

And then, connected Aug. 24, 2022, Bell was revealed to beryllium acold capable along in her gestation to exemplify that, erstwhile again, Cannon had multiple irons successful the occurrence that summer.

The adjacent day, De La Rosa reposted an Instagram Reel from comedian Brian Moller that poked amusive astatine however antithetic generations respond to Nick's babe news. In summation to immoderate laughing and applause emoji, the expectant DJ wrote, "Lmaooo! Ayyeeee! Move implicit Kardashians, Gen 'C' taking implicit babyyyyy."

Well, Cannon had guaranteed a babe boom.

"The stork is connected the way," Cannon said on the June 7, 2022 occurrence of the Lip Service podcast. "If you thought the numbers I enactment up successful 2021 was…wait 'til 2022! Y'know, determination was a batch of kids past year." (In lawsuit you mislaid count, 4 Cannon children were calved successful 2021.)

He had managed celibacy for astir a period and a half, helium explained, but aft Zen died he didn't person the spot to accidental nary erstwhile helium was offered intimate companionship. 

"I was expected to marque it to the apical of the twelvemonth but, obviously, I started going done immoderate stuff," Cannon said. "I got depressed with the nonaccomplishment of my son. And the happening is, due to the fact that everybody saw I was truthful down, everybody was like, 'Let maine conscionable springiness him a small vagina. That's gonna cure it all.'"