- Nick Cannon said on "The Howard Stern Show" that he felt "pressured" to get a vasectomy.
- He said "the world" was telling him to get the procedure after he had multiple children in one year.
Nick Cannon said he felt "pressured" by the world to get a vasectomy after having multiple babies with different women over the last five years.
Cannon has had nine children in the last three years, raising his total number of children to 12 with six different women.
Last year, after the announcement that he was expecting his eighth child, the "Wild 'n Out" host said that he was considering getting a vasectomy.
"I already went and got my vasectomy consultation," Cannon said on E! News' "Daily Pop" show. "I ain't looking to populate the Earth completely, but I'm definitely looking forward to taking care and loving all the children that I currently have."
However, in a new interview on "The Howard Stern Show" Monday, Cannon said he only considered the vasectomy due to societal pressures.
"It's a scary thing," Cannon said when asked about the consultation. "I felt pressured. I felt the world was trying to make me get a vasectomy. I don't operate well under pressure. My body, my choice."
He continued: "You ever know what it's like to be walking down the street and just a random stranger be like, 'Man, you need to go get snipped?' I'm like, 'I don't even know you.'"
In October 2021, Cannon said on Revolt's "Drink Champs" that he was trying to remain celibate until 2022.
However, in June 2022, Cannon revealed on the "Lip Service" podcast that he only lasted a month and a half before he broke his celibacy vow after the death of his son with Alyssa Scott, Zen Cannon.
"I got depressed with the loss of my son. So in December, everybody saw I was so down. So everybody was like, 'Let's just give him a little vagina, and that's gonna cure it all,'" he said. "I fell victim to it 'cause I was in a weak state. So December, especially right before Christmas, I started fucking like crazy."
While speaking to Stern on his radio show, Cannon said he had previously lasted nine months celibate when he was younger.
"There was one point one therapist told me I should be celibate. That didn't work. I had more kids after that," Cannon said. "The longest I have been celibate for was nine months. I did it nine months one time. No masturbation. You can't release. That's the whole thing."