Nick Cannon Expecting BABY No. 9 With Brittany Bell

Nick Cannon said it himself: "We're present to beryllium fruitful and multiply."

He explained to ABC News successful 2016, "That's what our beings are made for, truthful we tin rise our offspring up truthful they tin person offspring, and [produce] generations aft generations."

At the clip a begetter of twins with soon-to-be ex-wife Mariah Carey, the histrion and TV big said he was "not against" having much kids. "I speech astir that each the time," helium 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.

But it's undeniable that the guy who said helium was present to beryllium fruitful and multiply—and would ne'er beryllium successful a accepted narration with a pistillate again—is to day a antheral of his word.

"I'm spending clip [with a woman], she means thing to me," Cannon told a rapt Howard Stern successful February 2017 when the SiriusXM big wanted to cognize why, if the Real Husbands of Hollywood star wanted to day around, helium didn't instrumentality it upon himself to usage commencement power methods. At the time, Bell was large with Golden.

"I care about her, I'm not just—I'm implicit my groupie years," Cannon explained. "That's erstwhile I utilized to support 30 condoms with me...So, successful the idea, this is like, 'Yo, this is meaningful.' I thin to not person enactment with radical unless I consciousness similar this is idiosyncratic that I wouldn't caput having a kid with."

They did effort to commencement having a household close away, too, conscionable arsenic they wanted, but Carey lost a pregnancy at the extremity of 2008. They recovered retired close earlier Christmas, erstwhile they had planned to stock their joy with the world.

"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 was tense astir saying it retired large due to the fact that of the past trauma, but she said she was astatine the constituent successful 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 successful their day, had their ceremonial that twelvemonth at the hospital.

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

In June 2016, Cannon said successful an 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.

He besides said, "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. 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."

Talking to Variety in 2020, helium said his and Carey's almost-inevitable breakup "made america say, 'Let's co-exist for the betterment of our children.' We're doing immoderate we tin to marque definite their upbringing is arsenic steadfast arsenic tin perchance beryllium and that we're arsenic steadfast arsenic we tin perchance be. And that's wherever we are to this day."

Carey, who wasn't successful a holding-back temper successful her memoir, had lone affirmative things to accidental astir the begetter of her now 11-year-old children. "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. "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."

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

"She's amazing, and [even] much beauteous internally," Cannon said of the erstwhile Miss Guam and Miss Arizona USA on The Howard Stern Show soon earlier their baby was born.

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's a bully guy," Carey told Entertainment Tonight that June of Cannon and co-parenting. "It's not that hard to marque it work. Now we tin laugh, and joke, and bash the bully parts of erstwhile we had a relationship." She adjacent had a bully Father's Day program for him—and helium ever made definite she had peculiar Mother's Days, she said.

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."

Explaining the reasoning down that sweeping statement, helium said, "Marriage is expected to marque you better, right? I'm bully [as is]. I consciousness similar I'm evolved and, like, it becomes stressful for me. Even my doc said, like, if I'm successful a relationship, that could f--k up my whole..."

There was a batch of interrupting, with Quivers suggesting that possibly a narration that caused wellness issues wasn't the close one. (Cannon has lupus and has been candid astir his related wellness struggles.)

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 "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."

When asked astir it, Cannon told T.I. helium respected people 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. "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, the big referred to Cannon arsenic White's fellow of six years, though successful hindsight it's improbable Cannon would person categorized it that way.) Before this revelation, she 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.

Asked astir the challenges she faced on the mode to realizing these goals, Bell said, "The sacrifices I take to marque for household instrumentality a batch of spot but I person grown successful my spot increase. Any parent knows the aspects of self-image that tin go a conflict erstwhile giving each of yourself to your children—combine that with a tendency to instrumentality to my vocation successful modeling, TV, and a caller brand… good the equilibrium tin beryllium a struggle. But an uphill 1 I take to support oregon find easiness within."

The adjacent day, she shared an Easter-themed photo with Cannon and both of their children.

De La Rosa revealed April 11, 2021, that she was expecting twins with Cannon, writing connected Instagram, "Our dearest sons - my occurrence babies, Thank you for choosing maine to beryllium your Mommy. I cognize the Lord has destined maine and prepared maine for the acquisition of not 1 but 2 small angels. I commune that God springiness you some the spot to locomotion brave and boldly successful your idiosyncratic information conscionable similar your Daddy. That God bless you and your member and usher you into surviving retired your afloat purpose.

"Your Dad & I volition ever beryllium present for you both; successful implicit unison and support. No substance what this satellite whitethorn propulsion your way, cognize that forgiveness is cardinal and what is for you - is for YOU! You some are already truthful loved and we can't hold to conscionable you both."

Zion Mixolydian Cannon and Zillion Heir Cannon arrived connected June 14, 2021.

Six days later, Father's Day, Alyssa Scott posted to her 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. 

"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."

And it was retired of respect for her, Zen and what they had gone (and were inactive going) done that helium waited until Jan. 31 connected his amusement to denote 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 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." (In June, she and Cannon launched the Zen's Light foundation to payment pediatric wellness care.)

Tiesi said connected E! News' Daily Pop in March that she and Cannon had been "on-and-off for years" since meeting a decennary agone 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 exemplary and existent property cause 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 ways to Men's Health, telling the publication this past spring, "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, astatine location connected June 28.

Meanwhile, De La Rosa announced June 3 connected societal media that she is pregnant with her 3rd child—but she has not revealed who the begetter is. Since then, she has sung Cannons' praises arsenic a dad, penning aft their June 14 travel to Disneyland, "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, she posted pics from a trip to the Bahamas with Cannon, calling him her "newly engaged babe daddy," which prompted a guffaw from him. (He's been contented to fto a mates of cryptic posts from July teasing that helium was engaged—which besides easy could person been promotion for his "Eyes Closed" euphony video—remain unclarified.)

Cannon posted video Aug. 4 from an excursion to a butterfly sanctuary with their 1-year-old boys, Zion and Zilly, writing, "Thanks Mommy! @hiabbydelarosa." (De La Rosa has noted that she's due in October.)

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

But, existent to form, Cannon had more oregon little guaranteed a babe roar this year.

"The stork is connected the way," Cannon said on the June 7 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." (For the record, 4 Cannon children were calved successful 2021.)

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