The 30-year-old presenter admits he feels uncomfortable in hospitals and is concerned about how he will react when he is supposed to be supporting his spouse when she has their twins in around two months time.
He tweeted: “I am probably going to faint in the delivery room! I need to man up!
“Or maybe I should say WOMAN UP since they are the ones that have to be the strongest in the whole ordeal! I am in awe of my wife!
“People are trying to give me advice for when that day comes. I’m trying to prepare but I get queazy in hospitals LOL.”
Nick and Mariah, 41, recently celebrated the impending arrival of their son and daughter with a baby shower at the Conservatory Grill at the Montage hotel, where they were joined by friends including talk show host Piers Morgan, ‘American Idol’ judge Randy Jackson and director Brett Ratner.
Mariah said afterwards: “I’d never been to a baby shower. This was my first one – it was so festive!
“Nick and I were so grateful to everyone who came to celebrate with us. It was a night I will never forget.”
Life & Style Magazine has confirm that Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon are expecting a boy–and a girl! “It’s all about pink and blue these days,” a friend of the couple said. “It’s truly going to be a dream come true for them. They get a son and daughter.”
And Mariah couldn’t be happier. “Even before we announced it was twins, I was trying to keep everything genderneutral because I didn’t want to impose an identity on them too soon,” Mariah said with a laugh. “There were fan contests on Twitter about what gender they are and rumors about them being two boys or two girls — but nobody guessed this!”
Nick first revealed in December that the couple were having twins. “In order for my wife and I to have our life, we need to be up front and I need to be able to share things with you and be real,” he said on his radio show. “I didn’t even tell my wife I was gonna do this. I’m probably gonna get yelled at for not getting permission. We’re having twins!” They’re set to welcome their bundles of joy in April. “It’s been a long journey–but a happy one,” says mom-to-be Mariah.
For more on Nick and Mariah, plus all the latest on celebrity moms-to-be, pick up the new issue of Life & Style, on newsstands tomorrow.
Pregnant Mariah Carey has opened up about her miscarriage heartache after losing her first baby two years ago.
The singer and husband Nick Cannon ended months of speculation by confirming they are currently expecting a child on Thursday.
But as they revealed in the joy, they also spoke candidly about the ‘dark’ time they endured in 2008.
Mariah, 40, and Nick, 30, revealed they were set to fly out to meet family and friends at in Aspen, Colorado when a last-minute doctors appointment left them devastated.
In a preview of Mariah’s Access Hollywood three-part interview due to air this week, Cannon says:’Literally, the day we were supposed to travel to Aspen we had an ultrasound
‘Unfortunately that was a time where [the doctor] said, “I’m sorry but the pregnancy is unsuccessful”.’
The actor says his wife managed a brave face in front of friends and family.
Nick says: ‘Even though it was emotional for both of us, that’s when I really saw the strength in this woman right here. She just handled it so well.
‘And then to get on a plane and have to spend Christmas with friends and family, and no one knew. I felt like everybody was kind of speculating.
‘Literally, in a magazine, it said, “They’re gonna let everyone know during the holiday”.’
‘She was so festive and smiling, obviously for the cameras, and spending time with everyone – and then, literally, at night, [she was] crying herself to sleep.’
Meanwhile, Mariah says the heartache brought them closer together.
She revealed: ‘It was really sad. We had really to absorb this… We really learned a lot just as people.
‘It was even more of, like, preparing us to do this because of the way it happened so quickly at first. I think I was sort of in shock ‘cuz I didn’t expect [the pregnancy]… and then when that happened and I wasn’t able to even talk to anybody about it, that was not OK, that was not easy.
‘I’ve never really been a very forthcoming person about my personal stuff; it’s just not my thing. But, honestly, to me, this type of thing is like, “Ew, weird! Why do I have to talk about this in front of the world?”
‘It’s even strange for me to talk to people I know about it, because I just never did. It kind of shook us both and took us to a place that was really dark and difficult.’
Earlier, Mariah ended months of speculation by saying: ‘Yes, we are pregnant. This is true.
‘It’s been a long journey. It’s been tough because I’ve been trying to hold on to a shred of privacy.’
Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush said that Mariah told him the baby was conceived naturally, and added that the couple does not know its sex.
The singer said she felt she had to speak out to confirm the news, adding: ‘At this point, there is no choice. I either talk or I hibernate.
While Mariah refused to name her due date, she did say: ‘It’s still early’ before continuing, ‘expecting is great’.
Nick added: ‘The greatest gift on earth is a child.
‘We’ve had names picked out from the first day we met and we want to stay true to that.’
Mariah prompted rumours that she was expecting when she stepped out in August wearing a maternity dress.
However, she quickly followed the reports with a statement from her agent Cindi Berger.
The statement read: ‘I appreciate everyone’s well wishes. But I am very superstitious. When the time is right, everyone will know – even Cindi Berger.’
In August, Cannon spoke about Mariah’s maternal instinct, explaining: ‘She’s very nurturing.
‘She’s nurturing with me and makes me breakfast at anytime and that’s my favorite food. It would be like 3 o’clock in the morning and she will still make me waffles. She’ll be the best mom.’
And asked if he would like a boy or a girl, Cannon replied: ‘It’s great to have a girl until she turns into a teenager. Then you have to worry about every other boy in the neighborhood and that would freak me out.
Don’t get Nick Cannon angry. You wouldn’t like him when he’s angry.
The actor, 30, turned into a, well, loose cannon, after E! talk show host Chelsea Handler bashed him on Twitter this week.
“I just heard nick cannon is starting a comedy tour. Who’s going to do the comedy?” Handler tweeted Thursday.
Cannon, who was preparing for a weekend show at the Gotham Comedy Club in Manhattan, issued a quick response that led to a Twitter feud spanning the rest of Thursday evening.
“Wow @chelseahandler I actaully used to have respect for you as a comic. But for one artist to diss another in the same art form. #Tasteless,” Cannon posted. “Soon as I get off stage tonight, I’m going in on @chelseahandler I’m about to be relentless! OFF WITH HER HEAD but right now I got to focus.”
Handler responded by tweeting a picture of grape soda and the caption, “@nickcannon pls drink this before you tweet me again.”
From then on, Cannon dominated the back-and-forth, running up a series of tweets demeaning the “Chelsea Lately” host.
“Everyone knows @Chelseahandler had sex with the head of E! for her show,” Cannon tweeted, referencing rumors that Handler got her own show because she was dating the head of E! at the time. “So when its canceled does he get residual p—y for the reruns?”
Cannon later slammed the comic’s looks, saying she looked like she got “hit in the face with a hot bag nickels” and that her recent night out with rapper 50 Cent was just so the two could share “testosterone tips.”
Handler, who has a history of shooting down her critics, has yet to respond to Cannon’s comments.
Cannon ended the rant with a tweet directed at Handler, shock jock Howard Stern and rapper Eminem, all of whom have insulted the comedian in the past.
“Why do all these angry ugly whitetrash folks want beef with me?” he tweeted in exasperation. “What I do? I’m a harmless corny dude!”
Nick Cannon is looking to make a killing on his 30th birthday — reps for Mariah Carey’s husband have sent out a mass e-mail looking for corporate sponsors to pay $25,000 for three tweets from next month’s bicoastal bash.
Announcing that “confirmed” guests will include Mariah as host, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Will and Jada Smith, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, Kobe Bryant, Quincy Jones, L.A. Reid and Jamie Foxx, Cannon is searching for sponsors for a New York party Oct. 8 and an LA bash at Universal Studios Oct. 9.
In an e-mail sent wide, reps for the NBC “America’s Got Talent” host say: “This is an extremely exciting opportunity to sponsor a fun and lavish event . . . opportunities range from gift bags and signage to tweets and photo ops.”
A one-sheet flier for the “Nick Cannon Birthday celebration hosted by Mariah Carey” offers sponsors the chance to pay $2,500 to be in the gift bag, while a $15,000 donation includes “one tweet” and “mention in all p.r. materials.”
For $25,000 you can be a “host sponsor” which includes “three tweets,” a “right to service out photos” and a “logo on all collateral,” which we hope doesn’t refer to the “confirmed” celebrity guests.
And those prices only refer to a single city, with special “packages” that can be created for both New York and LA.
Cannon, who married Carey in 2008, really doesn’t need the cash. He’s in his second year of hosting the NBC talent show, while Mariah’s wealth was estimated at $400 million this year.
But the pair are well known for throwing lavish birthday bashes. For Mariah’s 39th last year, he whisked her off to Barbados for a party that was covered in People magazine. For her 40th this year, Cannon bought his wife a pink Porsche, for which she thanked him on Twitter. Their wedding party was celebrated at Six Flags.
A rep for Cannon refused to answer questions concerning the event.
She’s made no secret of her plans to start a family with Nick Cannon, so when Mariah Carey stepped out with a fuller figure than usual over the weekend she had all of Hollywood talking.
But the 40-year-old singer, who put her curvy figure on show in Beverly Hills on Saturday in a short orange dress, has been quick to nip the baby rumours in the bud.
Her spokesperson issued a statement denying speculation she’s expecting her first child, telling America’s Us Magazine that she’s ‘not pregnant’.
But the couple hope there will be children on the horizon eventually.
Cannon, 29, told MTV News in January: ‘We absolutely plan to have a family. But we gotta prioritize, because that’s a major, major priority. We wanna make sure everything is out of the way and that we don’t have any distractions.’
And they’ve already decided what they’ll call their first child.
Mariah said in October: ‘We have to keep the name secret because if we told everybody, then somebody might use it and then we have to change it, and then it wouldn’t be as good.
‘We picked these names out a long time ago.’
In the meantime, the pair, who dined at the Beverly Glen Deli after Mariah had a brief encounter with a police officer, are busy planning to renew their vows on their second wedding anniversary on April 30.
He revealed: ‘We get married every year! That’s our thing. That’s what we’ll be doing on the actual [anniversary]… We’ll do something, a party or event, just to celebrate.’
The couple first tied the knot in a secret ceremony in the Caribbean in 2008.
It was Carey’s second marriage – she wed record executive Tommy Mottola in 1993 but the pair divorced five years later.
