Nick Cannon is explaining why he’s determined to safeguard his testicles for a whopping $10 million.
“I needed to insure my most useful property,” Cannon, 43, advised Leisure Tonight in an interview printed on Monday, July 1. “Since you hear about like all these totally different celebrities insuring their legs … so I used to be like, ‘Hey, properly, I received to insure my most useful physique half.’”
Cannon took to social media final month to announce his plan to financially protect his non-public elements. “It’s official! I’ve probably the most priceless balls on the planet!” he wrote by way of Instagram on the time.
The reveal was pegged to his partnership with cleaning soap and grooming firm Dr. Squatch. “As an alternative of listening to the haters and getting a vasectomy, Nick is doubling down on his priceless household jewels and defending his productive pair (and the tremendous sperm within them) so he can hold procreating for years to come back,” a press launch for the model’s Ball Care line learn on the time.
Though Cannon careworn that insuring reproductive organs was the true deal, he advised ET on Monday that it doesn’t signify plans to increase his household within the close to future. “[I’m] simply ensuring nothing goes flawed,” he advised the outlet.
Cannon is the daddy of 12 children. He shares 20-month-old son, Legendary Love, with Bre Tiesi, twins Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Inheritor, 2, and daughter Lovely Zeppelin, 16 months, with Abby De La Rosa, twins Moroccan and Monroe, 12, with ex-wife Mariah Carey and sons Golden Sagon, 7, and Rise Messiah, 18 months, and daughter Highly effective Queen, 3, with Brittany Bell.
He’s additionally dad to daughter Onyx Ice, 18 months, whom he shares with LaNisha Cole, and daughter Halo Marie, 15 months, whom he shares with Alyssa Scott. (Cannon and Scott’s late son, Zen, died from most cancers in December 2021 at 5 months previous.)
“He manages it very well,” Tiesi, 33, advised ET of Cannon’s capability to juggle his massive brood. “I really feel like that’s why nobody ever hears something as a result of we’re all joyful. All of us make it work. He’s such an excellent particular person, genuinely, and he actually cares and he does need to be there and he’s by no means gonna blow something off.”
She added, “It makes it simpler while you’re doing issues as a result of you realize he’s gonna make an effort and he’s gonna present up.”
Cannon has typically shared glimpses into the time he spends along with his little ones by way of social media, together with visiting them for holidays like Easter and Christmas. Final yr, the actor revealed that he spends $200,000 a yr taking his children to Disneyland.
“Disneyland is pricey already off [the] high should you making an attempt to remain within the resort,” he defined on a December 2023 episode of Energy 105.1’s The Breakfast Membership radio present. “It’s not the way it was. You gotta make reservations.”
Regardless of his finest makes an attempt, Cannon has confessed to feeling like there isn’t sufficient of himself to go round.
“Being a father of a number of children, it’s all the time the largest guilt on me is that I don’t get to spend sufficient time with all my kids,” he confessed throughout a December 2022 episode of The Checkup With Dr. David Agnus “One, ’trigger I’m always working, and two, as a result of I’m simply unfold skinny.”