Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey’s twins look all grown up on their 13th birthday

And although the teenagers are Mariah’s only children, Nick has fathered 10 more children from five different partners. Wild and out The star didn’t intend to have a big family, but he now sees fatherhood as part of his “highest goal.”

“It’s almost like when you have these manifestations or visions, if you want to call them that, it’s like, ‘Oh, everything makes sense now,'” Nick explained on The Language of Love with Dr. Laura Berman last June. “And I’m like, ‘The bigger the better,’ we’re rolling the dice on the name and what you build.”

And he tries to consciously approach fatherhood.

“No matter how much money you make, you can’t buy time,” Nick added. “I don’t want anyone else to be worse than they are.”

Keep reading to fully dive into his family tree.