And then, on Aug. 24, 2022, Bell was revealed to be far enough along in her pregnancy to illustrate that, once again, Cannon had multiple irons in the fire that summer.
The next day, De La Rosa reposted an Instagram Reel from comedian Brian Moller that poked fun at how different generations react to Nick’s baby news. In addition to some laughing and applause emoji, the expectant DJ wrote, “Lmaooo! Ayyeeee! Move over Kardashians, Gen ‘C’ taking over babyyyyy.”
Well, Cannon had guaranteed a baby boom.
“The stork is on the way,” Cannon said on the June 7, 2022 episode of the Lip Service podcast. “If you thought the numbers I put up in 2021 was…wait ’til 2022! Y’know, there was a lot of kids last year.” (In case you lost count, four Cannon children were born in 2021.)
He had managed celibacy for about a month and a half, he explained, but after Zen died he didn’t have the strength to say no when he was offered intimate companionship.
“I was supposed to make it to the top of the year but, obviously, I started going through some stuff,” Cannon said. “I got depressed with the loss of my son. And the thing is, because everybody saw I was so down, everybody was like, ‘Let me just give him a little vagina. That’s gonna cure it all.'”