A Guide to Nick Cannon's Sprawling Family Before Baby No. 7 Arrives - E! NEWS

At the time a father of twins with soon-to-be ex-wife Mariah Carey, the actor and TV host said he was "not against" having more kids. "I talk about that all the time," he said.

Consider Cannon, 40, a man who doesn't just talk the talk.

"I'm spending time [with a woman], she means something to me," Cannon told a rapt Howard Stern in February 2017 when the SiriusXM host wanted to know why, if the Real Husbands of Hollywood star (whose first child with Brittany Bell was on the way) wanted to date around, he didn't take it upon himself to use birth control methods.

While Cannon was previously engaged to model Selita Ebanks, proposing in Times Square with the help of the MTV JumboTron in 2007, Carey was the one who made him feel ready to start the family he so wanted.

And vice versa, the Grammy winner detailing in her 2020 autobiography The Meaning of Mariah Carey that, by the time she met Cannon, she had pretty much resigned herself to not becoming a mom.

"Having children together became our reason," Carey wrote of herself and Cannon.

They did try to start having a family right away, too, just as they wanted, but Carey lost a pregnancy at the end of 2008. They found out right before Christmas, when they had planned to share their joy with the world.

"It kind of shook us both and took us into a place that was really dark and difficult," Carey told Access Hollywood in October 2010.

"The greatest gift on earth is a child," Cannon said.

"And at this point she hadn't told anybody anything because doctors advised us to keep it to ourselves until we get further along," Cannon explained to his morning radio show audience after the Obamas joined their inner circle.

But while they were madly in love with their kids, Carey and Cannon started to fall out of sync with each other within a few years, taking time apart in 2014, reconciling and then separating again before Cannon filed for divorce in December 2015.  .

In June 2016, Cannon said in an interview that they were getting along well, he was happy for Carey's newfound happiness with her Australian billionaire fiancé James Packer, and they were "diligently moving things along" in their divorce proceedings.

He also said, "I've been reflecting quite a bit on my life as a father and how I want to be the best one I can be, the way my father figures were to me. So with that said, I just ask that the public continues to respect our process and remain patient and loving as me and my family aim for happiness.".

By the time her divorce from Cannon was finalized in the fall of 2016, she and Packer had ended their engagement—and Cannon was expecting a baby with model and beauty queen Brittany Bell!

"She came at me first about it, so it was actually easier," Cannon told Los Angeles' Power 106 about Carey's reaction to his quick turnaround.

"I don't know how she heard about it, but she called me, and she was funny with it?

Asked if his incoming new addition was a surprise, he said he most definitely was not having "an 'oops baby.' I'm so calculated with my moves...I've always wanted five kids.

"She's amazing, and [even] more beautiful internally," Cannon said of the former Miss Guam and Miss Arizona USA on The Howard Stern Show shortly before their baby was born.

When Stern teased Cannon about barely having time for the two kids he already had, the merry multitasker chuckled, insisting, "That's not true.

Even my doctor said, like, if I'm in a relationship, that could f--k up my whole...".

"I think I'll never be able to be with just one woman again," the father of three told T.I.

And so I gave it my all—'cause even before that I was like, 'I don't believe in marriage.' But s--t, it was Mariah Carey.

So but I just know, like even in that thing, like I know I'll never be in a relationship again, I know I'll never get married again.

So I'm tryin' to fix that s--it up." Meaning, "I don't want to be responsible for anybody else's happiness...Like, I'm still trying to get my s--t together." He wanted to have more kids, he said, but he also reiterated that stress puts him in the hospital "and, to me, all relationships equal stress.

Like I don't want to answer to nobody, I don't want five or six [partners].

A GIRL!!!!!" she captioned a pic of the family of four, Cannon suited up like Santa and the newborn in her arms, on Dec.

"She was aware that I just had a miscarriage two weeks prior to her news coming out because he told me that he told her," she alleged. "I was living at his house, and she knew that as well."

"When you have a really close friendship with a person, you just know each other...He understood me and my craziness and I understood his, and we just meshed

"He said he was going to right his wrongs and say something," White told Lee. "He has yet to do that

I pray that God give you both the strength to walk brave and boldly in your individual truth just like your Daddy