Nick Cannon has admitted he treats his 15-year-old twins differently when it comes to dating.
Nick Cannon has admitted he has “double standards” when it comes to his 15-year-old twins dating.
The Masked Singer presenter has “encouraged” his son Moroccan to go out with girls but has “absolutely” taken a different stance when it comes to the teenager’s sister, Monroe, but he insisted there is a huge “difference” when it comes to parenting different sexes.
Speaking on The TMZ Podcast, Nick – who has the twins with ex-wife Mariah Carey – said: “My son [Moroccan] has been dating, and I’ve allowed it, I encouraged it.”
When the podcast host said they hope “you’ve been allowing it and encouraging that” for Monroe, too, Nick abruptly replied: “No, absolutely not.”
He explained: “First of all, it’s absolutely a double standard. And I know I get in trouble a lot ‘cause I say things with my chest. But there is a difference when parenting a son and then when parenting a daughter.”
The 45-year-old star admitted he is much more “protective” when it comes to parenting girls than boys.
He said: “I am more protective of my daughter because there [are] things out there that I have to protect my daughter from. Like, as we know, there are a certain type of individuals that you want to keep your daughter away from.”
As well as Moroccan and Monroe, Nick is also dad to Golden, nine, Powerful, five, and Rise, three, with Brittany Bell; four-year-old twins Zillion and Zion and Beautiful, three, with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary, four, with Bre Tiesi, Onyx, three, with LaNisha Cole; and three-year-old Halo with Alyssa Scott, the mom of his late son Zen who died aged five months in 2021.
And Nick recently claimed he had so many kids because he was “careless” and should have taken more time to heal from the “trauma” of his 2016 divorce from Mariah.
During an appearance on The Breakfast Club radio show, he explained: “It wasn’t like I was acting out. It was more of being careless, being frivolous with my process because I could do it, because I had the money [and] because I had the access to whoever and however I wanted to move.
“Then, obviously, life happens as well, so it wasn’t like: ‘Oh, I’m gonna go have 12 kids.’ It was more about like: ‘Yo, I’m gonna just live life and have fun and whatever happens happens. I can handle it’.
The America’s Got Talent presenter felt he was damaged after his split from Mariah and needed to do more “inner work” to heal after the break up.
He added: “Being almost 45 now, I could sit back and like, yeah, if I would have thought the process through a little bit more and took time to actually do the inner work. Things might have been a little different in certain scenarios.
“I don’t know … because I’ve always said this, every child that I had was made out of love and there were strong relationships.
“If I would have did the work [and] the healing after getting divorced, I probably would have took my time in a lot other scenarios and for whatever reason I thought that was the answer a lot of times, like: ‘Oh, I’m gonna figure it out over here’.
“Now, you’re leaving trauma every step of the way instead of fixing it from its origin.”
Nick Cannon admits to parenting double standard
