Personal Life
With no prior announcement on April 30, 2008, Cannon married Mariah Carey at her private estate on Windermere Island in The Bahamas after just six weeks of dating. Cannon and Carey initially met in 2005 at the Billboard Music Awards as he presented her with the award for Best Selling Female Artist of the year. The two remained friends for the years following. On October 28, 2010 Carey confirmed that she and Cannon were expecting their first child. Carey revealed that she had been pregnant shortly after her wedding during the time of the 2008 World Music Awards, but she miscarried, so Carey and Cannon decided to keep the matter private.
On April 30, 2011, the couple's third wedding anniversary, Carey gave birth to fraternal twins. The daughter is named Monroe Cannon (after Marilyn Monroe), the son, Moroccan Scott Cannon (because Cannon proposed to Carey in her Moroccan-style room; Scott is Cannon's middle name and his grandmother's maiden name). Monroe doesn't have a middle name as Mariah herself doesn't have one. Mariah has referred to the twins with the nicknames "Roc and Roe" (Rock and Roll).
On January 4, 2012, Nick Cannon was hospitalized after suffering from mild kidney failure. He was then hospitalized on February 17, 2012, for blood clots in his lungs. On Monday, March 5, 2012 he announced that he was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called lupus nephritis, which was the cause of his recent kidney problems.
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