Nick Cannon is clearing up rumors that he has a “favorite baby mama” out of the six mothers of his 12 children.
“Why do people say that?” Cannon, 45, recently said on The Breakfast Club radio show while addressing theories that Bre Tiesi, with whom he shares son Legendary Love, 4, is his favorite.
While Cannon acknowledged that he has often been seen publicly and on social media with Tiesi, 35, the Wild’n Out creator reasoned, “She’s [already] famous.” (Tiesi is a model, actress and real estate agent known for starring on Netflix’s Selling Sunset.)
“The reason why people say that, and I understand, [is] because she’s in media like that. … Social media is part of her business, so yeah, she’s always posting, [whereas] some of the mothers of my children really want to be private,” Cannon continued, adding that some of the women have told him they don’t want to participate in his upcoming Netflix documentary.
In addition to sharing Legendary Love with Tiesi, Cannon shares twins Moroccan and Monroe, 15, with Mariah Carey; son Golden Sagon, 9, daughter Powerful Queen, 5, and son Rise Messiah, 3, with Brittany Bell; twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir, 4, and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin, 3, with Abby De La Rosa; daughter Halo, 3, with Alyssa Scott and daughter Onyx, 3, with LaNisha Cole. Cannon and De La Rosa’s eldest child, son Zen, tragically died at 5 months old in December 2021.
“One of the mothers of my children, or three of my children, actually, she’s literally a psychologist, and … she’s like, ‘This isn’t good for my actual career,’” Cannon noted. “To always be looked at as one of the baby mamas. So I have to respect that energy. … I’m probably at that household and with those kids more than anybody, just because of the amount of kids, and they’re in school and stuff. But she’s like, ‘I don’t want cameras and all that,’ and she was like, ‘If I do, I want to be able to control the narrative, because I’m a doctor. So, I was like, ‘I gotta respect that.’”
Cannon added that he and Tiesi often work together because they’re in the same industry.
“My goal is to love everyone as equally as possible,” he insisted. “I do feel like I have a soul connection with all the mothers of my children … but the idea of what a soulmate is, is like, ‘You’re my one and only.’ Yeah, clearly I don’t have a one and only.”
Cannon — whose only marriage was to Carey, 57, from 2008 to 2016 — has spoken candidly about his big blended family over the years. In September 2025, he admitted that having 12 children was a “trauma” response to his divorce.
“I didn’t get a chance to slow down until I got in therapy,” he said on The Breakfast Club. “But I was just like, ‘Look, I just got to keep making money. I got to stay hot. I got to stay funny.’ And everything else figured itself out. And I just didn’t do the work. So then I looked up with 12 kids later. Wow, I could have did things very differently.”
Cannon continued, “But I stand firm on all of my decisions because I love all my kids. I love my family infrastructure. But I know it all started from a place of pain and not really healing properly.”
