Nick Cannon Says Being a Girl Dad to Five Daughters Made Him Reconsider His Player Persona

Most parents secretly hope that their children will be chips off the old block, mini-mes who appreciate what mom and dad have modeled for them with the skills to forge their own unique path in life.

Not Nick Cannon.

After the Masked Singer host admitted earlier this week on his Nick Cannon @ Night podcast that he cannot honestly tell you how many women he’s slept with — “I lost count a long time ago” — the father of 12 children with six different women struck a slightly less braggadocious tone in an interview with Extra.  

Promoting his late-night relationship advice call-in show, Cannon, 44, said age, experience and fatherhood have tempered his player proclivities. “When you have five daughters and you’re like, ‘All right, I gotta at least want to be able to be true and honest,” he said of the modeling he has to do for his brood, which includes a pair of twins, Moroccan and Monroe Cannon, with ex-wife Mariah Carey, as well as daughters Powerful Queen (with Brittany Bell), Onyx Ice Cole (with LaNisha Cole), Beautiful Zeppelin (with Abby De La Rosa) and Halo Marie (with Alyssa Scott).

“But I can’t live the same life I’ve always been living and attempt to right my wrongs in that sense of where hopefully my daughters learn from my mistakes and not date people like their dad,” he added self-deprecatingly. The multi-hyphenate performer who has just added an upcoming gig hosting Lego Masters Jr. to his extensive list of jobs also told Extra that he’s always been an “open book” about his life, so sharing stories about his personal life on the show is no big deal.

Or offering up his sometimes out-there opinions, which he said including his prediction that “everybody’s about to start dating robots. Between AI and the technology of making things we are definitely in the Total Recall, Terminator era where people are just sick of humans and they gonna design the love that they want.”

Watch Cannon talk about his girl dad era below.