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Nick Cannon has done it all in his career. He has rapped, acted, produced, and even acted as an executive. But despite all he has accomplished in his career, his name has become synonymous with one thing — having a lot of children. 12 to be exact.
Nick Cannon Says Admits That Having 12 Kids Was ‘Careless’
The number of kids that Cannon has has become a running joke in the hip-hop community. But according to him, it is not a laughing matter. During a recent appearance on Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, he revealed that his procreating so much was a trauma response to the internal issues that he was dealing with.
“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 went on to add that now that he has matured and has reached a reflective stage in his life, he can admit that if he were in a better space mentally, he may have gone a different route.
“Being almost 45 now, I could sit back and like, yeah, if I 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,” he said.
He also added:
“If I would have did the work and the healing after getting divorced, I probably would have taken my time in a lot of 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,’ ” he said. “Now, you’re leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin.”
