Nick Cannon sometimes struggles to keep track of his 12 kids.
Cannon, 44, was asked to name all of his children during a Thursday, June 19, appearance on Bobbi Althoff’s “Really Good” podcast. Ultimately, he was only able to list 10 out of 12 members of his brood, whom he shares with six different women.
“I usually get in trouble,” he joked. “I know all of them, but like, here we go. I’ll lay them all out for you. Keep me honest. There’s Roc, Roe, Golden, Powerful, Rise, Onyx, Legendary, Zion, Zillion, Zen, and … see, this is where … How many [are left?]”
“You’re missing two,” Althoff, 27, told the Masked Singer host.
“I’m missing two,” Cannon repeated as he tried to think of the names.
Earlier in the conversation, Althoff asked Cannon why he had so many kids.
“Why do I have so many kids? I have a king complex,” the Wild ‘N Out host quipped. “You know, Black men, we always be like, ‘What’s up, king?’ I really think I’m the king.”
Althoff asked, “So, you need to have … do kings have a lot of kids?”
“Yeah,” Cannon replied.
Cannon is a father to twins Moroccan and Monroe, 14, with ex-wife Mariah Carey, sons Golden Sagon, 8, and Rise Messiah, 2, and daughter Powerful Queen, 4, with Brittany Bell and twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, 4, and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin, 2, with Abby De La Rosa. He also shares son Legendary Love, 2, with Bre Tiesi and daughter Onyx Ice, 2, with LaNisha Cole.
He is also a dad to daughter Halo, 2, whom he welcomed with Alyssa Scott. The pair also shared son Zen, who died at 5 months old in November 2021 after being diagnosed with brain cancer.
In June 2024, Cannon and Scott, 31, celebrated what would have been Zen’s 3rd birthday with a party with their families.
Though Cannon and Scott have come together every year to honor Zen, she hinted that the TV personality hasn’t been around much as a father to Halo in a May 1 post on her Instagram Stories.
“Ha ha haaa Funny. Any plans on seeing your child? It’s been over a month,” Scott wrote alongside a clip of Cannon on Raven Symoné and wife Miranda Maday’s “Tea Time” podcast that he insured his reproductive parts for $10 million. “But good to know she’ll get some of your [money] if anything happens to your balls smh.”
Us Weekly reached out to Cannon for comment.
Though Cannon has received backlash for fathering 12 children, he revealed in March that he’s “not done” procreating.
“I leave it to the Lord,” he said during a discussion about vasectomies on Courtney Bee’s “We Playin’ Spades” podcast.
Cannon previously told Us Weekly exclusively in September 2024 that he’s grateful for his partners, who have helped make coparenting as a father of 12 a breeze.
“I thank God for their mothers,” he said. “They kind of plan accordingly, and they don’t have to be, but they’re real empathetic to my process. So, you know, they do things. I’ve seen them make so many sacrifices, so I can be there and haven’t missed a birth or a birthday yet.”
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