Final week, we advised you that former NFL star Cam Newton has some considerations about caring for his eight kids with out his skilled athlete wage. However now, he’s made head-scratching feedback that might go away some individuals questioning if he’s open to giving Nick Cannon a run for his cash.
In a current interview with PEOPLE, Newton opened up about how he finds peace in fatherhood, including when requested what number of extra children he’d need, that he’s not sure when he’ll lastly really feel his household is full.
“I don’t know, wherever a lot that God offers me,” he stated. “However jokingly, and never jokingly, they actually give me my function and there’s so many alternative issues that I take a look at to say, they’re my refuge. They’re my peace. They’re my encouragement.”
Newton already has a fairly massive brood. The previous NFL quarterback who retired from the league in 2021 shares 4 kids with ex-girlfriend Kia Proctor – Chosen Sebastian, Sovereign-Dior Cambella, Camidas Swain and Cashmere Saint. He’s additionally helped increase Proctor’s daughter Shakira from a earlier relationship.
He shares son Caesar Lorenzo with LaReina Shaw and helps increase her son Jaden from a earlier relationship. Most lately, Newton welcomed a daughter with Jasmin Brown in March 2024. And with regards to his blended household, Newton has made it clear that he loves all his kids equally.
“I proudly say I’ve eight kids. Six biologically by me. And I don’t consider in stepchildren,” Newton stated on “Membership Shay Shay” in an April 2024 interview. “What my organic children get, everyone will get. I don’t don’t have any favorites. I’m elevating kings and queens.”
Newton being open to rising his household is surprising in gentle of testimonial he shared on an episode of the FOX actuality sequence, “Particular Forces: Worlds Hardest Check,” noting that caring for his eight children is even more durable now that he’s not getting that NFL cash.
“I’m going into a distinct part of my life that’s going to require a distinct type of myself,” he stated. “Being within the NFL, everybody is aware of there’s a big sum of cash that involves you in a brief span of time and being away from the sport for 3 years, these checks don’t got here in the identical. Like I obtained eight children.”
Whether or not Newton decides to have extra kids, one factor’s for certain, he loves his little ones.
“There’s occasions the place, even I’m right here and so they’re nonetheless at house. These sort of issues have an effect on me however it additionally offers me extra motive to say I’m doing this due to that scenario,” he advised PEOPLE.