Nick Cannon Says He 'Lost Count' of How Many Women He's Had Sex With a 'Long Time Ago'

While he admitted that "body count" was important to him when he was younger, he can't recall everyone he's slept with now.

July 31, 2025

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On the latest episode of Nick Cannon's eponymous podcast, Nick Cannon @ Night, he discussed the topic of "body count" and suggested that he doesn't know an exact number anymore.

Near the start of the podcast, joined by Courtney Bee and Dr. Viviana Coles, Cannon received a question from a listener who expressed a desire to learn how many sexual partners their girlfriend had before them. They asked if they were "wrong" for wanting to know, and while Cannon's co-hosts felt he was wrong, the father of 12 disagreed.

"We call it the car facts, you wanna know the history of the vehicle," said Cannon. "We joke, we have fun... But I think a person's history is important. I wanna know everything. I don't need to know the exact number. I lost count a long time ago. But I would like to know a little bit. At least from college forward." He also revealed that when he was younger, he felt that "body count" was "very important" to him.

Cannon has had 12 children with six different women, welcoming his first two children with ex-wife Mariah Carey in 2011. In a recent Vulture interview, he suggested it was perhaps a little "careless" of him to have multiple children with different women in one year, but said he's open to having more kids even if he's not planning to right now. "The world is a crazy place. I never say 'never!'" he said.

Last month, he made an appearance on Bobbi Althoff's The Really Good Podcast, and compared himself to King Solomon, who had roughly 700 wives at 300 concubines. "I don't want no wives, I just want kids," he said, while noting that he sometimes gets in "trouble" because he doesn't always remember all of his kids' names. "This is where I usually get in trouble... I know all of 'em, but can you rattle off just 12 of anything?" he said. Cannon shared that he wrote a jingle that he can rap to himself just so that he can remember all 12 of their names.

"I wrote a verse that had all their names in it and I just, sometimes I recite that," he said.

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