Nick Cannon’s Secret Engagements Before Mariah Carey Marriage

Nick Cannon is unmasking some surprises about his love life.

The Masked Singer host admitted that before becoming dad to 12 kids with six different women, he got engaged “probably half a dozen times” in secret.

“I proposed several times,” he told host Bobbi Alhoff on the June 19 episode of The Really Good Podcast, before referencing his marriage to ex Mariah Carey, “only went through it once.”

Explaining how all the engagements happened before he ultimately married the “Heartbreaker” singer in 2008, Nick—who was previously linked to Christina Milian, Kim Kardashian and Selita Ebanks, who he got publicly engaged to in 2007—added that “some” of his former fiancées actually kept their rings.

So, would he be down to re-marry? “I got married once and I don’t think I’ll ever do it again,” the 44-year-old shared, before revealing that he may also be “done having kids” too.

Nick is dad to twins Moroccan and Monroe, 14, with Mariah; Golden, 8, Powerful, 4, and Rise, 2, with Brittany Bell; twins Zion and Zillion, 4, as well as daughter Beautiful, 2, with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary, 2, with Bre Tiesi; and Onyx, 2, with LaNisha Cole. He also shares late son Zen, who died in 2021 at 5 months old from brain cancer, and daughter Halo, 2, with Alyssa Scott.