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Heidi Venable

Nick Cannon Gets Real About What Led To Him Having 12 Kids: ‘It Wasn’t Like I Was Acting Out’

Nick Cannon wearing glasses and smiling on The Masked Singer.

A few years ago it seemed like you couldn’t look at celebrity news headlines without seeing that Nick Cannon had fathered another child. The Masked Singer host has had 12 babies with six women, and while he and his baby mamas have always defended their unconventional lifestyle, Cannon has opened up about the “trauma” that he said resulted in having so many children.

Nick Cannon was a guest on The Breakfast Club radio show, where he said he’s learned that his actions a few years ago that led to so many babies — three in 2021; five in 2022 — were a response to unresolved trauma. The actor explained:

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