Nick Cannon is expecting his 11th baby after pregnant model Alyssa Scott confirmed he is indeed the father of her unborn child.
The couple used a nude photo shoot in a bathtub to announce the baby’s paternity, one week after Scott first revealed she was expecting. But at the time, she did not disclose the father’s identity.
“This is a MIRACLE & a BLESSING 🤍,” she captioned the professional photo on Instagram, which featured the TV host and actor touching her baby bump. In another pic, Cannon, 42, could be seen kissing her stomach.
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This will be 29-year-old Scott’s third baby. She has a four-year-old daughter, Zeela, from a previous relationship, and she welcomed her second child, Zen, with Cannon in June 2021.
However, three months after his birth, Zen was diagnosed with brain cancer when doctors discovered fluid building up inside his head along with a malignant tumor that required brain surgery.
Zen’s health took a turn for the worst following surgery and in December 2021, he passed away. He was just five months old.
Scott shared the sad news on Instagram at the time, along with a video montage of Zen’s short life.
“Oh my sweet Zen. The soreness I felt in my arm from holding you is slowly fading away. It’s a painful reminder that you are no longer here,” she wrote in the caption.
“I caught myself looking in the backseat as I was driving only to see the mirror no longer reflecting your perfect face back at me. When I close a door too loudly I hold my breath and wince knowing a soft cry will shortly follow. It doesn’t come. The silence is deafening.”
“These last five months we have been in this race together. We would hand the baton off to each other. You kept me going. It would be the middle of the night and you would smile at me. A surge of energy would fill my body and pure joy would radiate from within me,” she added.
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“We were a team, both determined to see it through. It feels unbearable running without you now. I can’t. And in this moment I feel myself being carried. By your sister.. By God. By complete strangers encouraging me to not give up . It has been an honor and privilege being your mommy.. I will love you for eternity. 6•23•21 – 12•5•21.”
Cannon mourned the loss of his son on his self-titled talk show.
“Over the weekend I lost my youngest son to a condition called hydrocephalus that is pretty much a malignant, midline brain tumor – brain cancer,” he told the audience. “I always noticed he had a cough and so I wanted to check it out. He had this interesting breathing and by the time he was two months, I noticed he had this nice-sized head too – a Cannon head. We didn’t think anything of it. But I wanted to take him to the doctor for his sinus and breathing. We thought it would be routine.”
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“Ultimately, it was cancer in the brain and the tumor began to grow a lot faster. And so we knew that time was…,” he continued, holding back tears. “We were faithful and hopeful for that time. We carried on, he was still just playing with his brothers and sisters, I embraced every moment.”
He also praised Scott for being “just the strongest woman I’ve ever seen”, “never had an argument, never was angry. Was emotional when she needed to be but always the best mom, and continues to be the best mum”.
Cannon is also expecting a baby with Abby De La Rosa, who is already the mother of his twin one-year-old twin sons Zion and Zillion.
The actor also has seven more children with four other women, including superstar Mariah Carey who is the mother of his eldest kids, twins Moroccan and Monroe, 11.
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