Nick Cannon has shut down all rumours that his wife and diva Mariah Carey are expecting their first child. For months there has been increased murmurings regarding whether Mariah Carey is with child. Though pregnancy speculation has long followed the 41 year old diva, it intensified after Carey abruptly pulled out of Tyler Perry’s star-studded movie ‘For Coloured Girls…’ days before filming was to commence – citing “medical reasons”.

Now, Carey’s husband of two years, Nick Cannon, appears to be shutting down such talk. Nick Cannon said “Mariah is not pregnant. The timing has to be right. But I can’t wait to be a dad!” – I’m sure this pretty disappointing news, after Mariah Carey has been trying to get pregnant for along time now, every since the release of her album “Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel” it was clear that MiMi was ready to become a mother! Although this must be sad news for the couple, Mariah Carey is currently working on her new album which is still scheduled for a lead single release this November.

It must be said, though; the media obsession with whether such and such is pregnant is rather insensitive at times. Granted baring children at a certain point in one’s life (particularly after marriage) is society’s “norm”, often ignored it seems is the possibility of it being potentially difficult for the Mariah Carey‘s this world to conceive in the first instance. Worse still, what of the stars bombarded with pregnancy questions who may physically be unable to bare children? Read the rest of this entry »