He tells Essence he was surprised when former model Porter, 36, told him this summer that she was expecting, and when he learned they’d be having twins, he thought, “Someone must have been counting wrong.”

Not that he wasn’t thrilled. “I was ecstatic,” says the dad of sons Justin, 12, with ex-girlfriend Misa Hylton-Brim, and Christian, 8, with Porter. “I’ve wanted girls for a long time. I just picture the babies falling asleep on top of me.”

When he and Porter first met in the nineties, “She kind of made me nervous,” Combs says. “She wasn’t like a New York girl. She was Bohemian, mixed with Georgia-peach hospitality. I got the idea she’d like doing stuff like walking barefoot in the grass. I didn’t think I could get her to like me.”

He was also intimidated by her reserve. “She was smooth, you know, like ice. She’s cool and collected and thinks before she speaks. You meet a lot of young ladies, and they just don’t do that. Kim was never pressed; she was always in control.”  Read more