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Nick Cannonis opening up about his visions for his growing family.
Appearing onThe Language of Love with Dr. Laura Berman, the father of 12, 42, opened up about the connections between his spiritual life and his fatherhood journey.
“You’re a very spiritual man and you’ve had many experiences over the past several years where you go and commune with spirit, you get downloads and messages,” Dr. Berman said of theWild N’Outhost.
“You’ve shared with me that you’ve had deep moments in the woods or in the desert. Did God tell you to have all these babies?”
“I’ve gotten in trouble about this too before because people will ask me if I’m done,” Cannon replied. “And I say, ‘Only God can tell me if I’m done.'”
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“As much as I was open to every single child that I have, I can’t say the majority of them were planned,” Cannon continued. “If you would have told me in 2012 when I was still married and just diagnosed with Lupus that 10 years from now… that I would have 12 children, I would be like ‘F— out of here!'”
“I can attest that a lot of these women, I mean you do have magic sperm, because several of these women have been on full-on birth control and gotten pregnant, and not wanted to get pregnant and gotten pregnant.”
“I lend that type of stuff to God,” he replied. “Those are miracles.”
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“It’s almost like when you have these manifestations or visions if that’s what you want to call them, it’s like ‘Oh, that all makes sense now.'”
“I’ve heard, ‘You’re going to be a father of many. You’re a great influence. Your lineage, your offspring, are going to do great things.’ I’ve had that,” he continued. “And I’m like, ‘the more the merrier,’ we roll the dice to the name and what you will build.”
Later in the conversation, Cannon said he “contemplated deeply” getting a vasectomy. “I no longer want to be careless,” he said. “I want to be a lot more intentional with life, especially when dealing with creating life, because I love all my children but I probably wasn’t intentional. I was like, ‘Oh if it happens, amazing, God’s miracles.'”
“Now I have 12, so no matter how much money you make, you can’t buy time. I want to be intentional in all of their lives currently, and I don’t want to spread anyone else any thinner than they already are,” he continued.
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“So with that, if I do have more children, it will be very intentional and the timing will be the best timing that I believe it should be. There won’t be any more ‘accidents’ or ‘oops’ or ‘surprises.'”
The actor shares twinsMonroe and Moroccanwith exMariah Carey, whom he was married to from 2008 to 2016. He is also a father to sonsGolden Sagon, 6, and Rise Messiah, 9 months, and daughterPowerful Queenwith Brittany Bell.
source: people.com
