Mariah Carey shares two children with her ex-husband Nick Cannon . But motherhood was an experience she thought she’d never have until she was with Cannon. Mariah Carey knew from an early age that she didn’t want kids Cannon opened up Carey to a lot of new possibilities when they were together.
The two started dating in 2008, and married each other later that same year. This was a massive change for Carey at the time, who hadn’t been married since 1998. She wedded music executive Tommy Mottola in 1993.
The debacle of her first marriage discouraged Carey from ever walking down the aisle again until Cannon came along. “Initially I was afraid of the concept of marriage, but this is a different situation and a different time in my life,” Carey once said on an interview with 20/20 (via The Hollywood Reporter). After their marriage, Cannon also opened Carey up to the possibility of having kids.
Carey gave birth to twins in 2011, something she thought from an early age she’d never do. “I never thought I was going to have kids,” Carey once told Entertainment Tonight (via FemaleFirst ). I remember being a little girl and going ‘I don’t think I’m going to have babies when I grow up’.
For a while I was probably convinced of that and I just realised things change and that’s what happens...
[The twins] give me a reason to live.” How Mariah Carey feels about Nick Cannon having 12 kids Becoming parents was new to both Carey and Cannon when they had the twins. Afte.