Here is Mariah Carey as a man. She went transgendered for the video shoot for “Obsession”, her new single. I don’t even know what to say about this. Mariah Carey is not the woman I thought she was. I thought Mariah was all about butterflies, sparkles, bubbles, pink, glitter, and basically everything “girly”. But Mariah makes a half-decent man, doesn’t she? And by “half-decent” I mean “exactly like the kind of skuzzy faux-gangster boys I went to high school with.”

Not to go on and on about this picture, but what’s up with the eyebrows and the goatee? I like how even though Mariah is playing some kind of scumbag, her goatee is still beautifully manicured. Michael K at Dlisted is making a joke about how Mariah is playing Eminem. I don’t really see that - Eminem’s facial hair isn’t that luscious.

You know what I’ll give Mariah credit for? Two things - first, she looks younger as a man. Second, props for not taking herself so seriously that she always has to be butterflied and baby-oiled. Or is this just narcissism? Did Mariah tell her music video director that the only man she could have in her video would be herself?

Photo credit: WENN.com and Fame Pictures

Mariah Carey has always been famous for her curvy figure. She’s also taken some heat for it at times – sometimes she looks fairly trim, while at others some websites have pointed out that she’s barely straddling the line between heavy and curvy. The most amazing thing is the way she’ll appear to gain or lose twenty pounds overnight – her figure-hugging clothing can really confuse the eyes.

One of Mariah’s friends admits her weight bounces around, and says Carey loves to eat, especially when she’s enjoying herself. But it sounds like Mariah has a pretty relaxed and fairly healthy attitude about her weight, everything considered. Plus it keeps her name in the press for the whole “Is she/isn’t she pregnant” thing.

UNLIKE some starving show-business stars, Mariah Carey (above) celebrates her success with much-deserved meals. “Mariah loves food. Right now she’s making an album and eating everything and anything she wants. She has put on about 15 pounds, but she loves the curves,” said our source. Our tipster adds, “She’ll definitely tone up again when she releases her album, but as of now, she’s stuffing her face.”

[From Page Six]

I’m sure some health nuts will argue that 15 lbs is too much to bounce back and forth between, but frankly if you’re a bouncer (and some people just are), it’s not that bad. Janet Jackson bounces up and down by at least 60 pounds. She’ll just disappear and you’ll see a few shocking fat grocery store photos of her, then after a year she’ll be back with 8 pack abs or something. It’s insane. Mariah’s fluctuations seem fairly normal to me, and she never lets it get out of hand. Personally I think she looks good curvy, and it’s nice to see women who are comfortable with their bodies whatever their shape or age. I’d like it if she’d tone down the skin-hugging mini dresses, but that’s not an age or shape issue, but one of style. She’s been rocking that look since 1992 – might be time to mix it up a bit.

Here’s Mariah Carey at the Fresh Air Fund ‘Salute to American Heroes’ at Tavern on the Green in Central Park on Saturday. Images thanks to WENN.com .

Mariah Carey is speaking out about the failure of her first starring film role, Glitter, all those years ago. Mariah knows the film wasn’t that great - in fact, she blames the director in a hilarious aside, saying “But I didn’t have representation or anyone to tell me: ‘What you need is a great director’.” Snort, chuckle. Because that’s why Glitter failed - everyone said, “I really want to see that Mariah Carey movie, but the director sucks.” Of course.

Beyond the bad direction, Mariah knows where to really lay the blame, though. Right at the feet of the terrorists who struck America on September 11th, 2001. Yes, Mariah thinks Glitter would have been received differently if only the release date hadn’t been September 11th. Yes, that must be it:

Mariah Carey says her infamously bad movie debut Glitter failed because of 9/11.

The singer — who stars in new movie Precious – says her semi-biographical film was destined to bomb at the box office as it was released on exactly the same day as the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center eight years ago.

“That movie was released on September 11th, 2001 – could there be a worse day for that movie to come out? I don’t think so,” she said. “I don’t even know that many people even saw the movie so I don’t think it’s the worst thing ever done.”

“Glitter was a learning experience and I wouldn’t do it again if you paid me. But I didn’t have representation or anyone to tell me: ‘What you need is a great director’.”

Carey, 39, recently played down her reputation as a diva — insisting she is simply misunderstood.

“I have been through a lot that’s made me stronger,” she said. “They say: whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. So I’ve been through that kind of stuff a few times.”

“A lot of people have very different opinions about me and it’s difficult to face them and to deal with them and to go on and to say: no, actually you’re wrong. I am this, I am not that.”

[From Showbiz Spy]

I don’t have a problem with Mariah generally, she’s pretty harmless. But what started out as a gentle mocking of Glitter is turning into Mariah’s decade-long delusion that she would be a big movie star if only an epically horrible national tragedy struck just when she was trying to make it big in movies. Yes, Mariah is self-absorbed, this is not breaking news. But you’d think that even after all of these years, Mariah would still want to pepper her words with a little perspective. Something like “Glitter wasn’t released at the right time, no one was in the mood for it because we were all terrified and grief-stricken, and my heart still goes out to the 9/11 families.” Something like that.

By the way, this isn’t the first time Mariah has blamed 9/11, or the first time she’s played fast and loose with the quality of Glitter. Several years ago, she famously said, “The talk shows needed something to distract from 9/11. I became a punching bag. I was so successful that they tore me down because my album was at number 2 instead of number 1. The media was laughing at me and attacked me…Glitter was ahead of its time. Today it’s ‘in’ to make 80’s music.” Oh, Mariah. Get a grip.

Here’s the trailer for Glitter

Photos are stills from Glitter, thanks to Allmoviephoto.

Mariah Carey was joking around with reporters when she was in Cannes, and she told them that her 40th birthday in March was just a “lie” being spread. She even calls forty “the F-word”. It seems Mariah wants to be thought of a perpetual thirty-something, and has vowed never to say her real age again.

The worst part - and by worst, I mean too much information - is that this report from Bang Media has Mariah’s husband/assistant Nick Cannon talking about how he gave Mariah a “bald eagle” for her 40th birthday. I don’t have a problem with “bald eagles” in general, but I don’t care to hear about them:

Mariah Carey will never turn 40.

The ‘Touch My Body’ star - who reached the landmark birthday in March - will never admit her real age and wants to remain a woman in her 30s for the rest of her life.

She said: “Read my bio again. We can’t allow these lies to spread! Don’t say the F word around me. It’s just a number but I don’t see why women should have to conform to what is expected of a 40-year-old - whatever that is.”

To celebrate her birthday - which was on March 27 - Mariah’s husband Nick Cannon whisked her away to Barbados on a private jet.

Mariah enjoyed an intimate dinner party with 11 close friends at the exclusive Wispers restaurant, which was filled with hundreds of pink and lavender balloons.

A source said: “It was important to Nick that the trip be a very relaxing one, where Mariah and her friends could truly enjoy themselves.”

At the time, Nick revealed he wanted to treat his wife to a “bald eagle” for her birthday.

But as well as being an endangered species, a “bald eagle” is also a slang term for someone with shaved pubic hair.

[From BANG Media International via Gossip Rocks]

Alright, not to wade too deeply into the “bald eagle” discussion (I just grossed myself out), but who really thinks that Nick Cannon gave Mariah her first “bald eagle”? I realize that’s not what he’s claiming, he’s just saying this one was special, because it was his treat. But considering all of Nick and Mariah’s beach photo-ops featuring Mariah’s too-flat stomach in itty-bitty bikinis, I think the girl’s had a bald eagle for the better part of a decade.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are shown at Cannes on 5/16 and 5/17/09. Yacht photos from WENN.com. Event and other photos from Fame Pictures

One of my least favorite things in the world is when doctors chime in via the tabloids about what’s happening with a random celebrity that they’re not treating. This goes for psychiatrists, medical doctors, plastic surgeons, whoever. It’s cheap and I’m pretty sure most doctors could (and should) loose their license. But that’s not stopping them!

This latest case of a doctor getting all up on a celebrity’s grill is about Mariah Carey’s recent weight gain. We’ve been through Mariah’s weight drama before - she gains and looses weight more than Elizabeth Taylor in her hey-day. But this doctor, Dr. Harry Haramis (seriously), who does not treat Mariah, is pretty sure Mariah had liposuction on her abdomen. His proof? Mariah seems to have gained weight in her thighs and arms, but not her stomach:

While soaking up the sun in Cannes, France, in mid-May, Mariah Carey, 40, revealed a fuller figure. However, her arms and hips appeared to carry the brunt of the weight gain while her abs remained relatively flat.

Mariah hasn’t kept her battle of the bulge a secret. “I’m really bad with the weight thing. I go up and down quickly,” she has said.

Although the star denies having surgery to lose weight, an insider believes that about six years ago, Mariah “may have had lipo done to her midsection.”

Whie her rep denies that she’s had the procedure, Dr. Harry Haramis, medical director of Sleek MedSpa in New York, says it could explain why someone would appear larger in some places, but not others.

“If a person gains considerable weight after liposuction, the treated areas will not change appreciably,” says Dr. Haramis. “The fat would go to remaining fat cells, with untreated areas getting the majority.”

[From In Touch, print edition, June 1 2009]

I have a theory about this, actually. In most paparazzi pictures of Mariah, you can totally see that she knows the camera is there. I think she sees the camera and sucks in her gut, like any respectable woman would do. The problem is that in nearly all of Mariah’s “candid” photos, we’ve now gotten used to seeing Mariah compulsively sucking in her gut. It’s warped us. I’d bet her abdomen has just as much proportional weight gain as her arms and thighs, but she looks disproportional because she has that small, petty gut-check vanity of most women. So, did she have surgery… or is she just sucking it in all of the time?

Note by Celebitchy: Last year some bikini candids of Mariah came out and her stomach was rippled in a way that would suggest she had lipo, so I would say it’s a definite possibility.

Mariah Carey is shown out in Cannes on 5/15, 5/16, and 5/17/09. Credit: WENN.com and Fame Pictures

Nick Cannon penned a long blog entry over the weekend defending his wife, Mariah Carey, against lyrics in yet another song in which Eminem references an relationship with Mariah that she denies ever happened. In 2003, Eminem called out Mariah by name in the song “Superman”, with lyrics that suggest he didn’t even get to third base:

Eminem’s 2003 song referencing Mariah, Superman
“Don’t put out? i’ll put you out… Am I too nice? buy you ice. Bitch if you died, wouldn’t buy you life. What you tryin to be, my new wife? What you Mariah? fly through twice. But I do know one thing though. Bitches they come, they go.”

Mariah denies ever having a sexual relationship with Eminem and said in a 2003 Maxim interview, “I hung out with [Eminem] a few times, but nothing sexual occurred.” Her song “Clown” on the album “Charmbracelet” is thought to be about Eminem, although she doesn’t name names.

On his latest album, Eminem digs up that old feud and name-drops Mariah in the song “Bagpipes from Baghdad.” He’s either trying to get publicity, piss her off, or a little of both. He suggests that Mariah is an alcoholic and that her relationship with Louis Miguel tore them apart. Eminem also calls out Nick Cannon, Mariah’s husband of just over a year, and says that he’ll take him down to get to the singer:

Eminem’s 2009 song referencing Mariah, “Bagpipes from Baghdad”
“Locked in Mariah’s wine cellar all I had for lunch. Was red wine, more red wine and captain crunch
Red wine for breakfast and for brunch… Mariah what ever happened to us? Why did we have to break up?…
A nasty break-up with that Latin hunk Louis Miguel, Nick Cannon better back the f*ck up. I’m not playin’ I want her back you punk… And yeah baby, I want another crack at ya… You can beat me with any spatula that you want… I mean I really want ya bad ya c*nt. Nick you had your fun I’ve come to kick ya in your sack of junk.” [From Elyricsworld]

All of this was too much for Nick Cannon. In a well-written but somewhat poorly argued blog entry he blasts Eminem for no longer being relevant and for daring to call out his wife. Cannon was winning me over for a few paragraphs, but then he goes on to call Eminem racist for mocking Mariah. Eminem may be racist - he did have that song “Black Bitches” that he made early in his career, but it’s hard to see how he’s being racist here. He just seems to have severe problems with women, particularly ones he can’t have.

Cannon has deleted this entire blog entry, but I saved it. It’s long, but here is it in case you want to read the whole thing:

Cannon’s blog entry calling Eminem racist, now deleted

Well, well, well. Fresh off the plane with my wife from our second honeymoon on the beautiful secluded islands of the Maldives and what do I find in my email box? A mediocre (at best) Eminem record that sounds like it was written in 2001. At first I thought it was old material that had been dug up from when dude “fantasized” about having a pretend fling with Mariah. I was thinking to myself, “Hey that was before me so it is really none of my business, so I’m going to give him a pass.”

So as I continued to semi enjoy Marshall’s rhyme scheme and flow, I mean let’s be honest dude used to be incredible. He was a witty lyrist with dope delivery and timing. Some even say, one of the best to ever do it. I had nothing but respect for this dude. But all of a sudden I hear my name in the verse! My first reaction was like, “This is his new shit??? Wow, that’s too bad…” Then I felt sorry for him because he must really be stuck in the past. Not only has his music not evolved, but also homeboy is still obsessed with my wife, the same female that wouldn’t let him get to second base from 8 years ago! He even describes his desperate lameness in this bad excuse for storytelling track. That’s some real middle school shit right there! (What type of grown ass man lies about getting with a chick) Only Slim Lamey! LOL!

So as I further examine the track, I hear dude cross the line. He begins to call my wife out of her name! Now as y’all know, I don’t take that type of nonsense lightly. So on some grown man shit I’m instantly like, I got to get at this Lame. I know it’s only entertainment and I’m all for freedom of speech. But I’m from the school of thought where if you are tough enough to talk shit, you got to be tough enough to deal with the consequences that come with tough guy shit talking! Then the little angel on my shoulder said, “No Nicholas, there is no need to play into his negativity. He is just a troubled soul yearning for the lost spotlight. You must be Christ like and turn the other cheek”

But then the dude on the other shoulder said, “ What Nigga?! Is you scared?! You can’t let no man ever disrespect your wife! Especially not some Peroxide drenched homophobic has-been! This is like some Paquiao vs. Hatton shit! He is underestimating you with his ass out and you can drop him in the first round!”

Then, without listening to either one of the voices on my shoulders, I analyzed the situation from a logical perspective. Am I going to battle Eminem and try to out rap him? No, that would be stupid. The dude is nice on the mic. Even though nowadays he lacks substance, rapping about when he used to be hot. Like when Al Bundy gloats about his High school football prime.

Then I asked myself should I go find this Bitch and just whoop his little ass? But that might have just been the Creatine and protein shakes talking! LOL. Even though most people don’t know that I’m nice in the ring and have been training in boxing and Martial Arts for years that would just be childish and silly of me to bully this dude. He clearly has been picked on all his life and I would hate to add to his deep-rooted pain. As we all know he has had a hard life and has major insecurity issues and is very confused and unhappy with himself. So a guy like that doesn’t really need another ass whoopin, he needs a hug. We should really pray for his troubled heart.

So just when the good guy in me is about to emerge and shine through, something hits me… Something bigger than rap beefs, something bigger than jealousy infused insults, something bigger than lackluster attention seeking punchlines, something bigger than artistic expression. I realized, that this so-called man has just disrespected and slanderized one of the world’s most significantly influential artists, one of the most notable BLACK females of our time, the incredibly cherished, globally loved and world-embraced woman of color, Mariah Carey!

Some people may not realize or tend to forget that my wife is a Black woman. And she has had enough difficulty in her life dealing with racial and ethnicity issues. Believe it or not, Mariah is the same racial mixture as our beloved president Barack Obama. [Black Father + White Mother= BLACK]

Maybe I’m going too far, but I thought we got passed the days where white men could spew vulgar obscenities at our beautiful queens and get away with it. What’s next? Are we going to let this trash say something horrible about our lovely first lady, Mrs. Michelle Obama? Or would Marshall have talked sideways out of his neck like this about Oprah Winfrey? This act of racist bigotry cannot go unnoticed. Calling my wife a “cunt” and a “whore” is way worse than anything Don Imus could have ever said. So trust, repercussions will be served. Anybody got Al Sharpton’s number?! LOL

Let’s not forget about Eminem’s amateur mixtape rants of calling African Americans Nigger and how he hates “Black Bitches”. How did we let him get away with that in the first place?! He is a natural born racist in disguise. Someone tell this coward that he finally barked up the wrong tree. For his entire career he strategically only tried to beef with people he could bully. I mean, what real man picks fights with women? Real MC’s battle other real MC’s. Ask Nas, ask Jay Z, you didn’t see them starting beefs with women! That is truly some punk shit!

So I’m putting this out there now. Marshall Mathers, you need to holler at me on some grown man shit. Man to man, let’s meet up and deal with this like adults. This is my invitation to you, whenever and wherever you like sir. So when you come out of your introverted hiding place and ask your bodyguards if you can go out and play by yourself, I’m here Pimp!

Your blatant disrespect not just to Black women but ALL women in general must stop. You are a despicable excuse for a man. I can’t even see how you can call yourself a father! Imagine if someone said half the stuff you say about women to your daughter, Hayley. (And I’m pretty sure they will because you got it coming Marshall.) That’s how Karma works.

You sold your little records and made a little bit of change but now you are stepping in the wrong territory. You may have been able to rape and pillage our artform like an old school Caucasian con man and nobody said anything because we respected your talent, but now you’ve made the ultimate mistake. Don’t you know that the black woman is the foundation and the strongest force in our culture? Take notes homey, Elvis would have never disrespected Aretha Franklin or Diana Ross. You were supposed to just do your little song and dance, make your little racist money and call it a day. But no, you had to dishonor the black man’s most precious counterpart.

I’m taking full action on you Eminem. I don’t know why no one has stood up to your bitch ass yet. But I guess it’s going to take a corny, wack rapping, boy toy from Nickelodeon to set you straight. And trust, I am going to be relentless. Even though I got a lot of other obligations and occupations, you are my new full time job “homey”! As a matter of fact I think you going to bring my wack rhymes out of retirement! That’s right haters; you can thank Eminem because I’m going to start rapping again! LOL Just for him! And don’t forget about the jokes! We coming at you hard body!! Non-stop on your Manic-depressive-Insecure-Maclovin-Nazi- Liza Minelli haircut havin-lookin ass!! [Pause] That’s what I do all day Bitch!

So Miss Marshall, I’m going to make you wish you never spoke my name and regret the ungodly things you said about my wife. This is going to be fun! It’s however you want it! Just remember, you did this to yourself! Your legacy has now been tainted from this day forth! You will now be known as the rapper who lost to Corny-ass Nick Cannon!!!

[From Nick Cannon's Blog, entry now deleted]

Cannon is on target by saying that Eminem shouldn’t disrespect women, but I have a hard time seeing how it’s related to Mariah’s ethnic background. Then he goes on to make the slippery slope argument that Eminem is going to disrespect Michelle Obama and Oprah because he’s mad at Mariah for not putting out. It’s not like one race should hold a monopoly on rapping, either, and it seems kind of lame to bring all that up as if it’s related. Eminem is just a tool and he’s doing the same thing he’s done all along. He has deep-seated issues with women and he writes songs about it. Just like Eminem went too far in his critique of Mariah, Cannon went too far in his defense of her, bringing up everything he thinks is wrong with the guy and his career. Maybe that’s why he deleted this entry. Like Eminem, he let his emotions get the best of him.

Mariah Carey is not pregnant - but she knows how the rumors got started. In her mind, it was just one bad dress. Not really, Mariah, but we’ll humor you. Mariah thinks that the tight-fitting pick-peach dress she wore on Easter Sunday somehow just started the pregnancy rumors. Considering the pregnancy rumors started last year, that must be one seriously bad dress.

What’s funny is that Mariah is rarely photographed in anything other than tightly-fitting, age-inappropriate cocktail dresses. This pick-peach dress was no different. Mariah looks the same as always - like she’s a voluptuous girl who poured herself into a dress that’s a few sizes too small. She didn’t look bad or overweight, she looked the same as always. But Mariah just felt she had to address “the rumors”:

Mariah Carey insists she is not pregnant: She was just wearing a bad outfit. On Easter Sunday, Carey was photographed in a tight, peach dress with husband Nick Cannon.

Blogs soon began speculating that she was pregnant.

“I don’t know what was worse, the bleak angles and bright peach dress … or the b.s. commentary/blogs,” she says (via Twitter).

Although “Nick looked cute” in the photos, she says she “could’ve definitely lived without” seeing the pictures. (She also admits that her “dress and hair” were not suitable for the “red carpet.”)

She added, “And if I gained a few pounds.. my trainers back living with me again.”

Her rep also shot down pregnancy rumors when contacted by Usmagazine.com. Asked about media reports that she and Cannon spent Easter Sunday at a fertility clinic, her rep tells Us: “No, not true. Nick and Mariah spent Easter Sunday with family in southern California.”

Carey and Cannon secretly wed nearly a year ago in Eleuthera in the Bahamas.

They’re already prepping for parenthood. Cannon recently told Us that he bought Carey a dog for their anniversary.

“I got her a short-haired Jack Russell terrier — a girl, named Cha-Cha,” he said last month. “She’s eight weeks.”

[From US Magazine]

Oh, Mariah. This is-she or isn’t-she pregnant thing has got to stop. It really seems like Mariah is the one pushing the rumors now, whereas it was the tabloids and gossip sites a few months ago. Now Mariah just seems to be looking for attention. If she wants to get pregnant, good for her. I’d be happy for her. But blaming the “rumors” on the same dress she’s been wearing for decades is a little cheap.

Here’s Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon exiting their Manhattan apartment building and heading to the airport on April 7th. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.

Can you believe it’s been almost a year since the world was shocked – SHOCKED! – by the nuptials between Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey? Though the couple’s first anniversary won’t be until the end of April, Nick has already gotten his wife her present – a Jack Russell terrier puppy named Cha-Cha. I’m 95% sure this was just to get the “oooh, they’re practicing for a baby!” rumors going. Which certainly worked on Us Weekly.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon - who celebrate their one-year anniversary in May - are prepping for parenthood: They bought a dog.

“I got her a short-haired Jack Russell terrier — a girl, named Cha-Cha. She’s 8 weeks,” Cannon, 28, told Usmagazine.com Saturday at a concert in Coconut Grove, Fla.

He and Carey, 39, secretly wed in Eleuthera in the Bahamas last spring.

Cannon said being married to Carey is “the most amazing thing ever. I couldn’t wish for anything else. She’s the most incredible woman. Being in a strong union and being there for each other is something that I’d never really experienced before, so to experience it with my wife is remarkable. We’re together as one, and that’s important to me.”

He was mum on their anniversary plans, but told Us, “We never went on a honeymoon, so I guess I can tell you we’ll probably go to Barbados.”

Asked if there are any babies in the near future, he laughed.

[From Us Weekly]

For whatever reason, I like Mariah Carey. I think she has better staying power than most. But she strikes me as the sort who’d do best having several dogs that are like her kids. Mariah is a known diva. To the point that I’m sure she was one long before she was ever famous. I just have a hard time imagining her being able to tend to a child the way they’d need – especially once they weren’t small and cute. But tiny dogs? Those things stay small and cute forever. I think that’s the perfect present. Mariah and Nick are currently in Barbados – I guess on their belated honeymoon. It’s also her 39th birthday. Despite the dog, something tells me those baby rumors are going to triple by the end of the month.

Here’s Mariah and Nick during Fashion Week in New York on 5th. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.

Another day, another Mariah Carey pregnancy rumor. Although this time, the rumor comes with a $125 million price tag. Mariah and her new husband/man-candy are rumored to be interested in buying David Saperstein’s $125 million Los Angeles estate. The mansion is described as a “minipalace with Italian marble walls, French limestone floors, gold-embossed leather wall coverings, a nine-car garage, ballroom, private running track and movie screening room.” Sounds nice, if you like that kind of thing. But for that money there better be a solid-gold bidet that shoots out chocolate liquor. Ew, I grossed myself out on that one.

Why would Mariah and Nick need that kind of crib? “Crib” being the operative word, of course. Even though the rumor was denied before the New York Daily News published it, they’re still claiming that Mariah has already hired a designer and “has requested an all-pink nursery.” Whatever.

Mariah Carey is ready to expand her family - and she wants a baby girl.

The pop superstar has prematurely dropped $200K on furniture, including a pink crib and highchair, from a children’s store in San Francisco for the new Hollywood home she intends to buy with hubby Nick Cannon.

A source close to the diva reveals she has made an offer on the David Saperstein estate in the exclusive western L.A. neighborhood of Holmby Hills. Her neighbors would be the Beckham brood and Hugh Hefner. The French Chateau-style mansion, which has been on the market for months at the asking price of $125 million, is a minipalace with Italian marble walls, French limestone floors, gold-embossed leather wall coverings, a nine-car garage, ballroom, private running track and movie screening room.

“It’s 45,000 square feet and looks like a European castle,” says the insider. “It’s so big, it can’t even be called a mansion - it’s similar to Buckingham Palace!”

But the opulent surroundings aren’t quite enough for Mariah. She’s planning on putting in a few touches of her own, most notably the nursery. Says our source, “She has asked [interior decorator] Kenneth Bordewick to advise on her new home and has requested an all-pink nursery. It’s going to be over the top!”

Despite plans for the baby room, there is no indication that the singer is pregnant. But an insider tells us, “Mariah has tossed around the idea of adopting.”

Her husband, meanwhile, seems to have a different time line when it comes to having a brood. Nick, who at age 28 is 10 years Mariah’s junior, recently joked that he was planning on kids “soon. Like a couple [of] years soon!”

Contacted for comment, a rep for Carey would only say of the story, “not true.”

[From The New York Daily News]

Mariah should adopt, if that’s what she wants. I’ve always liked her because she’s not one of those women who constantly plays the is-she-or-isn’t pregnant games in the press (cough, cough, Eva Longoria). Mariah seems to know just how big of a diva she is, and she probably feels pretty strongly that the spotlight should always be on her. That’s one thing about babies - they always steal the show from needy divas. Still, Mariah has been in this game for a long time, and I could see her seriously considering motherhood now. Let’s hope that in addition to the all-pink nursery, she considers that gold bidet.

Here’s Mariah and Nick leaving Mr. Chow’s on February 20th. Images thanks to WENN .

I always hate it when I hear about celebs leaving New York City and moving to L.A. For some reason, it makes me feel like New York is just a little less special without them. But in Mariah Carey’s case I’ll make an exception. Mariah is planning on hightailing it from Manhattan and moving to the west coast. Why? To work on her acting career, which has apparently become a priority in her life. This would normally be the spot where I’d make fun of “Glitter,” – which was easily the worst film of this decade. But she actually got great reviews for her work in “Tennessee” this past year, so her plans might not be totally ridiculous after all.

IS Mariah Carey giving up on New York? A music industry insider said, “She and [husband] Nick Cannon are looking for houses in Santa Monica. They want to move to Los Angeles permanently. She wants to act more and she has to be on the West Coast to do that. And well, then, he’s got his . . . career. Whatever that is.” Carey just got rave reviews for her role in the indie flick, “Tennessee.” Her rep declined to comment.

[From Page Six]

I love the little jibe at Nick Cannon. Who I’ve got to admit has the most confusing IMDB resume I’ve ever seen. For a guy that hasn’t done more than two movies I could name, he’s got the longest list of projects imaginable. None of which are memorable. But it does look like he works a lot, just not at anything that would make you say, “Oh, so he does such-and-such.”

Mariah might want to take a lesson from Nick and stick with the one thing she’s proven she’s good at, instead of fanning out too much. Wait, that implies Nick excelled at something. Well, nonetheless, I hope she’s not giving up on singing. Her music should still be her priority – she’s proven time and again that she’s got tons of talent, and she’s managed to stay on the top 40 charts for over fifteen years – without constantly reinventing herself like Madonna.

Here’s Mariah Carey with “Tennessee” costar Lee Daniels at the 2009 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica on February 21st. Images thanks to WENN.com.