Nick Cannon is clearing up rumors that he has a “favorite baby mama” out of the six moms 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 rationale why people say that, and I understand, [is] because she’s in media like that. … Social media is a component of her business, so yeah, she’s at all times posting, [whereas] a few of the moms of my children actually need to be private,” Cannon continued, adding that a few of the women have told him they don’t wish to take part in his upcoming Netflix documentary.
Along with 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 in all the moms 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 profession,’” Cannon noted. “To at all times be checked out as considered one of the newborn mamas. So I even have to respect that energy. … I’m probably at that household and with those kids greater than anybody, just due to amount of children, they usually’re at school and stuff. But she’s like, ‘I don’t want cameras and all that,’ and she or he was like, ‘If I do, I need to have the option to manage the narrative, because I’m a physician. So, I used to be like, ‘I gotta respect that.’”
Bre Tiesi shared some insight into her unconventional coparenting relationship with Nick Cannon. The Selling Sunset personality, 32, revealed during an interview with Entertainment Tonight on Monday, June 26, that she and Cannon, 42, are flexible about when he sees their 12-month-old son, Legendary Love. “So, here’s the thing that I do know everyone desires to […]
Cannon added that he and Tiesi often work together because they’re in the identical industry.
“My goal is to like everyone as equally as possible,” he insisted. “I do feel like I even have a soul reference to all of the moms of my children … but the concept 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 time. In September 2025, he admitted that having 12 children was a “trauma” response to his divorce.
“I didn’t get a probability to decelerate until I got in therapy,” he said on The Breakfast Club. “But I used to be similar to, ‘Look, I just got to maintain creating wealth. I got to remain hot. I got to remain funny.’ And every part 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 in another way.”
Cannon continued, “But I stand firm on all of my decisions because I really like all my kids. I really like my family infrastructure. But I realize it all began from a spot of pain and probably not healing properly.”