Nick Cannon Has 12 Children — Now One of Their Mothers Is Revealing What Really Happens Behind the Scenes

The television host, comedian and former husband of Mariah Carey has welcomed 12 children with six different women, creating a family dynamic that has fascinated fans for years.

But while Cannon frequently speaks about his children and the joy of fatherhood, there is another side to the story that the public rarely gets to hear.

How do the mothers actually get along? Who organizes family time? And what happens when the children want to spend time with their brothers and sisters?

Now, one of the women at the center of it all is speaking openly about what life inside Cannon's unusually large family is really like.

And her answer suggests that things are considerably more complicated than fans might imagine.

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• One mother has finally opened up
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is a model, real estate agent and star of Netflix's Selling Sunset.

She shares a 4-year-old son, Legendary Love, with Cannon.

In a September 17 interview with E!'s Hot Goss, Tiesi discussed how she manages her relationship with Cannon and the five other women with whom he shares children.

The conversation addressed a question that has followed the family for years: whether all the mothers work together to coordinate their children's lives.

Tiesi's response was unusually direct.

"There is no we—we don't balance anything," she explained, adding that she tries to maintain a cordial relationship with the other mothers.

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Her comments suggest that the family operates less like one enormous household and more like several separate families connected through the same father.

And that is only part of what she revealed.

Why the mothers don't all spend time together

With six mothers and children of different ages living across multiple households, organizing family relationships might sound like an enormous logistical challenge.

But Tiesi says the situation involves more than simply coordinating schedules.

She explained that she has previously attempted to develop closer relationships with Cannon's other partners and former partners, but those efforts have not always worked out.

According to Tiesi, the relationships between the adults have sometimes made it difficult for her to build the kind of extended family connection she would prefer.

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That doesn't necessarily mean the mothers are involved in constant arguments or that every relationship is strained.

Rather, Tiesi described a situation in which she has chosen to maintain some distance instead of forcing relationships that have proven difficult.

Her priority, she explained, is making sure the challenges between adults do not prevent their children from getting to know one another.

The one thing she wants for her son

Despite the complicated family structure, Tiesi says she wants Legendary to have meaningful relationships with his siblings.

Cannon's children range from young children to teenagers, with his oldest twins, Moroccan and Monroe, born during his marriage to Mariah Carey.

Legendary has siblings through several different households, and Tiesi believes their relationships should not depend on whether the adults are particularly close.

She said she is willing to step away from difficult interactions between the mothers if that helps the children maintain their connections.

But she also made clear that she doesn't believe organizing those relationships should be her responsibility alone.

Instead, she believes Cannon needs to take an active role in creating opportunities for his children to spend time together.

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That distinction is central to her approach: the adults do not all have to function as one family unit for the children to maintain their sibling relationships.

So how involved is Nick Cannon?

With 12 children across six households, Cannon's approach to fatherhood has repeatedly attracted public attention.

Some people have questioned how one parent can divide enough time between so many children.

But Tiesi pushed back against the suggestion that Cannon is an absent father.

She said he spends substantial time with his children and described them as the central focus of his daily life.

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That doesn't mean coordinating a family of this size is simple.

Birthdays, school activities, holidays and ordinary family routines can all require different arrangements when children live in separate households.

But according to Tiesi, Cannon remains actively involved in their son's life.

Her comments distinguish the challenges of maintaining relationships between the mothers from Cannon's individual relationship with his children.

Just how big is the Cannon family?

Cannon's family includes some familiar names from the entertainment world.

• He shares twins Moroccan and Monroe with singer
• Mariah Carey

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He has three children with Brittany Bell and three with Abby De La Rosa.

He also shares children with LaNisha Cole, Alyssa Scott and Tiesi.

Cannon and Scott's son Zen died in December 2021 at just five months old after being diagnosed with brain cancer. Their daughter Halo was born the following year.

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In total, Cannon has welcomed 12 children with six women.

The children have different relationships with one another, and the mothers have their own individual approaches to family life.

That is why Tiesi's latest comments are particularly interesting: they provide a rare perspective from someone directly involved in navigating those relationships.

Bre Tiesi has made another major family decision

While discussing her son's relationships with his siblings, Tiesi also addressed whether she plans to have more children herself.

Her answer was clear.

She said she is finished having children and encouraged Legendary to enjoy spending time with his existing brothers and sisters instead.

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The comments come as Tiesi continues balancing motherhood with her television career.

In addition to Selling Sunset, she is appearing in the upcoming fifth season of Fox's Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, scheduled to premiere on September 24.

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For now, she appears focused on raising Legendary while allowing him to develop relationships with his extended family.

A very different picture of Hollywood family life

Celebrity families are often presented through carefully arranged photographs, red-carpet appearances and social media posts.

But Tiesi's latest interview offers a more complicated picture of what happens when the cameras aren't around.

The mothers do not necessarily coordinate everything together.

Some adult relationships have been difficult.

And the responsibility for maintaining connections between children across different households remains an ongoing consideration.

Yet Tiesi's message is not that the family cannot work.

It is that the children should have the opportunity to build their own relationships, regardless of how the adults get along.

For a family that has generated headlines for years because of its unusual size, that may be the most revealing detail of all.

Behind the celebrity names and public fascination are children who simply have brothers and sisters they deserve the chance to know.

And according to Tiesi, helping make that happen is ultimately a responsibility Cannon needs to share.