Nick Cannon: 'Releasing twins pictures will keep paparazzi away'

Nick Cannon has said that he hopes the release of personal photos of his and Mariah Carey's twins will keep paparazzi at bay.

The couple welcomed babies Moroccan and Monroe in April but refused to allow their children to be photographed publicly.

While they were initially reported to be considering a magazine deal, Cannon and Carey released their own personal pictures of the twins via a new website, DemBabies.com.

Cannon told Parade: "We didn't want to sell pictures to a big fancy magazine photo shoot. I didn't want to have to put pictures out there, but we wanted to do it on our own terms and in a regular way.

"All the photos you see on our blog are just family photos in the same way anybody else would do with their children. I thought that if you could see our pictures every day, than it's not going to be this big phenomenon to see what they look like or have the paparazzi chasing us. We're the ones giving you the pictures."

Cannon went on to say that he is looking forward to their first Christmas as a family, adding: "We'll celebrate it the same way we always do, but it will probably be a little bigger this year because our family is bigger. We'll just go somewhere and chill out and just enjoy each other. I mean, my wife is Miss Christmas, so it's definitely going to be festive!"

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