Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s ‘Scary’ Pregnancy News
EmailFinding out they were expecting twins was “scary news” for Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon.
“It was good news, but it was scary news at the same time because then that also meant that it was a high-risk pregnancy,” Cannon told Barbara Walters in an exclusive interview airing Friday on “20/20.”
”[The doctors] make you really aware that it’s very dangerous,” Carey said.
Carey had already gone through a miscarriage, which contributed to their fears about a multiple pregnancy.
The twins, named Moroccan and Monroe – Roc and Roe for short – were born on their parents’ wedding anniversary and are now six months old.
The couple “waited a long time to find out” the gender of the babies, Cannon said, and were excited to learn they were having one girl and one boy.
”I would carry around the ultrasound picture and be like, “You see that?! That’s manhood,” Cannon said.
He told Walters that he would read to his pregnant wife’s belly, and they would play music to the babies as well through “a belly boom box.”
”You just put it on your belly and they hear [music] in the speakers from the beginning,” Carey explained. ”Some of the songs are me.”
”You sang Stevie Wonder,” Cannon said. “You sang your songs.”
He added that his wife would cry when singing her song “Hero” to the babies.
Watch Barbara Walters’ exclusive interview with Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon, plus see their babies’ faces for the first time, on “20/20″ Friday at 10 p.m. ET.
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Who cares??????…really we have more to think about than these two clowns…..
Posted by: Tony | October 20, 2011, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm
Obviously, you care Tony, why else would you take the time to leave a reply, even when you have more to think about? Ha!
Mariah & Nick look lovely and I wish them all the best with #dembabies!
Posted by: Umbrae | October 20, 2011, 2:16 pm 2:16 pm
Okay I get it… Roc and Roe = “Rock and Roll” … Good Lord!
Posted by: shanthi | October 20, 2011, 2:54 pm 2:54 pm
If being a genuinely excited new parent is being a clown then they are guilty as charged. Nick reading to Mariah’s belly while she was pregnant isn’t new info she admitted that in an OK UK magazine interview before Rockstar & Miss Monroe were born. so what has it ever occoured to you that Mariah & Nick are fans of the band Kiss and love that particular song like most kiss fans do
Posted by: Courtney | October 20, 2011, 3:09 pm 3:09 pm
I have always loved Mariah Carey, but have lost all respect for someone who would call their precious babies Roc and Roe, how humilitating for them when they go to school. It is just another case of celebrities putting themselves first.
Posted by: Nancy O'Donnell | October 20, 2011, 4:08 pm 4:08 pm
Aww luv my girl mariah! Can’t wait for this Friday!!! Its like that y’all!
Posted by: theone | October 20, 2011, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm
I have never seen so many twins being born to celebrities. It must be invitro fertilization. Like everything else, it appears to be a fad.
Posted by: jonnie | October 20, 2011, 8:55 pm 8:55 pm
Can’t wait for this interview. Mariah looks great and they both look like they’re amazing parents. Who cares about the names as long as they’re healthy babies and loved by their parents .. oh and as long as one of them has Mariah’s vocal range.
Posted by: DIEGO | October 20, 2011, 11:39 pm 11:39 pm
”I would carry around the ultrasound picture and be like, “You see that?!
That’s manhood,” Cannon said.
The ultrasound of a child/children does NOT a man make you.
History has all but proven that it, in most instances, it’s “sperm donor-hood”.
With that aside, congrats to both of them!
Posted by: Robin | October 21, 2011, 12:45 am 12:45 am
@Robin – He is not talking about the ultrasound as being proof of manhood. He’s talking about the “organ” of his son.
Posted by: Dora | October 21, 2011, 1:57 am 1:57 am
Another restaurant claimed to use fresh mozz arella cheese, when it’s dishes were actually made with economy cheddar. The “fresh pasta” advertished on another menu tumed out to be frozen. My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He is eight years older than me. We meet online at —A g e d a t e . С ò M— a nice and free place for younger women and older men, or older women and younger men, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or tell your friends.
Posted by: ellyna | October 21, 2011, 4:02 am 4:02 am
@ Dora: The “organ” doesn’t make one a man, either.
I’m STILL very happy for them! :-)
Posted by: Robin | October 21, 2011, 5:28 am 5:28 am
Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, the Brazil loves you!
Posted by: Brazil | October 22, 2011, 7:22 pm 7:22 pm
Big fan of both I’m so happy for mariah and in joy for nick you have a good smart and she’s a blessing as well as you are nick from the family of crenshaw christian center we miss you nick and take care of mariah live a blessed and A life of prosperity love and joy
Posted by: jennifer | November 22, 2011, 1:08 am 1:08 am