Nick Cannon Opens Up About His Insecurities in Relationship with Mariah Carey
Nick Cannon Opens Up About Insecurities in Relationship with Mariah Carey: 'Am I Mariah's Man?' https://t.co/SQ6GVqyso2
- People (@people) October 28, 2024
Nick Cannon, 44, is opening up about the insecurities he faced during his relationship with ex-wife Mariah Carey, 55. He questioned his own identity after the pair tied the knot in 2008.
"I didn't actually really care what the world thought because the perception, you know, that is what it is. People are going to love you one day, hate you the next day. I could care less about that. … But going to myself with that pressure of, 'Who am I?' I got married in my 20s, you know what I mean? To the biggest star in the world. My trajectory was here, and then hers - she's already in a different stratosphere."
Cannon struggled to have his own identity outside of their relationship.
"She's got islands and I'm waking up at noon and people bringing me steaks on a platter. I would lay up at night thinking, like, 'Is is this who I am? Am I Mariah's man? Is that what my life is supposed to be?' There's nothing wrong with it."
Cannon struggled with his masculinity and the hierarchy of their family after the pair welcomed their two children, twins Moroccan and Monroe, in April 2011.
"I'm carrying a purse, the diaper bag and, you know, I'm standing on the corner like, 'Wait.' She's rocking being the alpha. She deserves it. I believe she needs a dude like that. I'm just not that dude,"
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