Celebrity therapy speak has finally reached its apex. Sorry, Demi Lovato, but whatever you have planned for your new album is going to have to be put on hold. On a recent appearance on The Breakfast Club, Nick Cannon said having 12 kids by six different women was a trauma response. Most of us just delete and then reactivate Instagram, but OK. Whatever helps you heal.
When asked by host Charlamagne tha God if he thinks his “having all those kids” was a response to his trauma, Cannon answered with an emphatic, “Yeah.” He then went on to say, “Being almost 45 now, I could sit back and like, yeah, if I would have 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.” According to Cannon, his impressive lineup of progeny wasn’t him “acting out,” but rather “being frivolous with my process, because I could do it, because I had the money…” Again, most of us express this through ill-advised Instagram posts, but hey, to each his own.
“It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go have 12 kids,'” Cannon continued. “It was more about like, ‘Yo, I’m gonna’ just live and have fun and whatever happens, happens, I can handle it.'”
The fact that Cannon has 12 kids has been the subject of much internet discourse, where his ability to pop out a new Nick Jr. (sorry) every couple of years is a frequent punchline. So here’s the lineup of Cannon’s fantastically named offspring in case you forgot—kind of like how Cannon forgot 2 of his 12 on Bobbi Althoff’s The Really Good Podcastin June.
Twins Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife Mariah Carey (born 2011)
Golden Sagon (2017), Powerful Queen (2020), and Rise Messiah (2022)
Twins #2 Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir (2021) and Beautiful Zeppelin (2022) with Abby De La Rosa
Zen (born June 2020, passed December 2021), and Halo Marie (2022) with Alyssa Scott
Legendary Love (2022) with Bri Tiesi
Onyx Ice Cole (2022) with LaNisha Cole
For his part, Cannon seems genuinely reflective over his whirlwind of new fatherhood, saying, “If I would have did the work [and] the healing after getting divorced, I probably would have took my time in a lot other scenarios and for whatever reason I thought that was the answer a lot of times, like ‘Oh, I’m gonna figure it out over here.’ Now, you’re leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin.”
Cannon said that while all 12 of his kids were made with “love,” he’s pumping (sorry) the brakes on having any more. In March, he told People that while he’s not against more children, he’s “pressing hold on this 12 for right now.”
Somebody’s therapist has earned their paycheck.
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