The National Enquirer has an epic story about Mariah Carey’s sister Alison. Did you know Mariah had a sister? Apparently. Alison is Mariah’s older sister – she’s 49 years old, and she’s the mother of four. She’s also an HIV-positive hooker. Seriously. At first I was like “Oh, that is so wrong of the Enquirer to out someone as HIV positive.” But then I kept reading… and Alison gave the Enquirer an interview! She claims she’s not really a hooker: “You have no idea how badly I need cash right now…But I’m not having ‘sex for money’! I provide personal companionship and erotic body rubs.” Meaning hand jobs, right?

MARIAH CAREY is on top of the world preparing for the birth of her twins – a boy and a girl – but her down-and-out sister ALISON – a mother of four – is so strapped for cash she’s selling herself as an “adult escort,” The ENQUIRER has learned exclusively.

Alison Carey Scott – a former drug addict who’s been arrested twice for prostitution and is also HIV positive – is shopping herself on the Long Island, N.Y., edition of backpage.com, a free internet classified service used by many hookers.

While the adult entertainment ad touts a 36-year-old sexy blonde named “Denise,” The ENQUIRER learned the ad is actually for 49-year-old Alison, who charges $250 an hour for house calls. The picture is fake, natch.

“You have no idea how badly I need cash right now,” a distraught Alison admitted to The ENQUIRER. “But I’m not having ‘sex for money’! I provide personal companionship and erotic body rubs.”

In an emotional and candid conversation, The ENQUIRER spoke to Mariah’s sister when she showed up Jan. 21 to meet a male business traveler in room 431 at the Hilton Garden Inn hotel in Ronkonkoma, N.Y.

Dressed in jeans and a baggy sweater, Alison said: “I’ve been forced to do this because my family refuses to help me financially. For weeks, I was driving in a vehicle with practically no brakes. It was unsafe, so I reached out to my family for help, but they basically ignored me. I wish I didn’t have to make a living by hooking up with strangers on the Internet, but sometimes I feel like I don’t have any other choice.”

Alison’s pathetic plight stands in sharp contrast to her sister Mariah’s fairytale life. The 41-year-old, five-time Grammy winner is expecting twins this spring with her 30-year-old husband Nick Cannon.

In 2000, Alison tried to find a publisher for her explosive tell-all book about her famous sister – reportedly dubbing her a “vain and heartless multimillionaire,” but Mariah’s legal team allegedly put a stop to the publication.

Things continued to go downhill for Alison, who was busted for soliciting prostitution in June 2005 after offering to have sex with an undercover officer for $250. It was her second prostitution arrest within a 10-week period. Alison, who had her first child at 15, has battled HIV since the 1990s.

In 1995, the sisters’ mother Patricia Carey – fearing for the safety of Alison’s then-7-year-old son – reportedly triggered a custody battle by refusing to hand him back to her troubled daughter after a family visit. A court later awarded them joint custody.

Although the sisters are still at odds, mom-to-be Mariah has reportedly paid for Alison to go to rehab multiple times.

“Regardless of how it might appear, I am trying very hard to turn my life around,” Alison told The ENQUIRER. “I’ve been clean and sober for 14 months. I attend drug and alcohol support meetings, receive counseling and have a sponsor to lean on. I’m also enrolled in college, which I hope will someday provide a better life and financial independence.

[From The National Enquirer]

So… okay. Mariah has paid for her rehab several times, and Alison is still saying that Mariah won’t help her out? How does Alison afford college? And HIV antiretroviral drugs? Hand jobs? Are “hand jobs” the answer to all of these mysteries and more?

I’m of two minds about this – I tend to think Mariah should just help her sister out financially, even if Alison does have a history of drug abuse. BUT – we don’t know Mariah’s side of the story, and I would imagine it is quite different than Alison’s.

Still… an HIV-positive hand-job hooker is related to Mariah Carey. Who would have thought?

I couldn’t find any photos of Alison, but there’s this video of her singing… you can tell she used to have a nice voice, but she ruined it with a crackpipe.

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In Touch Weekly has an interesting little admission from Nick Cannon in this week’s issue. Apparently, Nick thinks that he and Mariah aren’t going to hire any nannies. Um. Sure. Mariah probably isn’t due for another three months (I’m estimating…?), so while I can see why they aren’t planning for a nanny right this very instant, I think Nick is jumping the gun a bit:

Although Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey are going to have their hands full with twins – they’re set to have a boy and a girl – they aren’t planning on having any hired help.

“Nah, we’re not for all of the nannies and stuff,” Nick told In Touch on January 29. “Nothing against anyone who is, but my wife wants to be as hands-on as possible.”

[From In Touch Weekly, print edition]

Yes, little Blueberry Nicholas Sugarcane Cannon and Rasberry Razzle Kitty Cannon will have a nanny, I’m sure. I’m not saying that I don’t think Mariah can handle it – well, maybe I am. But Mariah has surprised me with how low-key she’s been for her pregnancy, so I have high hopes that we’ll be seeing a whole new Mariah emerge, glittery butterfly-like, when she becomes a mom. That being said, Mariah is going to hire help, and that’s not a reflection on how she wants to be a hands-on mom (which I do buy). And until I hear Mariah say the words “I don’t do nannies” I’ll hold my tongue.

Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.

Life & Style is “confirming” the gender(s) of Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon’s twins. Only it’s not a “confirmation” from either Mariah or Nick, it’s just some random gossip from “a friend of the couple”. Still, I want to believe this, just because a boy and girl would mean that we still get to have fun, Mariah-style, with naming the girl. A name using some kind of variation of Princess Pinky Sparkles Glitter Kitten Sugar. Something like that. And now we get to dream of boy names too! Nick will probably put his foot down when naming the boy, though. I bet the boy gets a somewhat normal name. Like D’Hermes Nicholas Sandcastle.

“There were fan contests on Twitter about what gender they are and rumors about them being two boys or two girls — but nobody guessed this!” — MARIAH CAREY TO LIFE & STYLE ON HAVING A SON AND A DAUGHTER

Life & Style can exclusively confirm that Mariah Carey and husband Nick Cannon are expecting a boy—and a girl! “It’s all about pink and blue these days,” a friend of the couple tells Life & Style. “It’s truly going to be a dream come true for them. They get a son and daughter.”

And Mariah couldn’t be happier. “Even before we announced it was twins, I was trying to keep everything genderneutral because I didn’t want to impose an identity on them too soon,” Mariah tells Life & Style with a laugh. “There were fan contests on Twitter about what gender they are and rumors about them being two boys or two girls — but nobody guessed this!”

Nick first revealed in December that the couple were having twins. “In order for my wife and I to have our life, we need to be up front and I need to be able to share things with you and be real,” he said on his radio show. “I didn’t even tell my wife I was gonna do this. I’m probably gonna get yelled at for not getting permission. We’re having twins!” They’re set to welcome their bundles of joy in April. “It’s been a long journey—but a happy one,” says mom-to-be Mariah.

[From Life & Style]

Yeah, Mariah doesn’t explicitly say it’s a boy and girl, but it’s a solid guess. Meanwhile, Nick spoke to People Magazine about Mariah and food (of course!):

Eating for three would make any appetite skyrocket. With twins on the way, songbird Mariah Carey has been whipping up some delicious home-cooked meals every night, says husband Nick Cannon. Only it’s the father-to-be who’s packing on the pounds.

“Last night we had smothered pork chops, collard greens, red beans and rice and a pecan pie with homemade whipped cream,” says Cannon, 30. “She cooks it, tastes it, but instead of laying up and eating it, I end up eating it. I think she craves it, but once she cooks it and smells it then the cravings go away.”

One thing she is eating? Kellogg’s Crunchy Nut cereal. “We have a lot of it!” says Cannon, who helped launch the new breakfast food in L.A. on Saturday.

Something else Carey, 40, has plenty of these days? Time to relax at home. With a routine consisting of swimming a few times a day and “decorating and designing” their twins’ nurseries — “We’re building nurseries in both L.A. and New York” — the comedian, who will shoot his first live stand-up special at the Palms, Las Vegas on March 5, says Carey is “extremely healthy and getting her Martha Stewart on.”

They’ve even narrowed down names for their twins. “They won’t be crazy names like Carburetor or something,” he says. “But they’re definitely unique.”

[From People]

Oh, they already have names picked out! My guess is that the names will have something to do with food, don’t you? Rasberry Marshmellow Sugar Cannon and Blueberry Cornflake Cannon.

Also – I’ll buy that Nick is putting on “sympathy pregnancy weight” too, but I don’t buy that Mariah isn’t having fun with all she can eat now.

UPDATE: Life & Style’s rep just sent me an email pointing out that this is a hard confirmation – Mariah is DEFINITELY confirming that she’s having a boy and a girl!!! I’m so happy for her, I really am.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Butterfly Mariah Sandcastle Cannon & Carmel Dream Sugarpony Cannon
Kitty Glitter Cannon & Sparkle Pinky Cannon
Razzle Sugar Baby Cannon & Diamante Lollipop Cannon

…Sorry, I was just thinking about possible baby names for Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon. BECAUSE THEY’RE HAVING TWINS!!! After playing games with our hearts, Nick Cannon has finally confirmed that yes, dreams do come true, and he and Mariah are totes having twinsies. Now we must think happy thoughts because it NEEDS to be twin girls. Totes.

It’s official: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are getting ready for baby love times two!

On his 92.3 Now radio show Thursday, Cannon confirmed that he and Carey are expecting twins.

“In order for my wife and I to have our life, we need to be up front and I need to be able to share things with you and be real,” Cannon, 30, said.

“I didn’t even tell my wife I was gonna do this,” he admitted. “I’m probably gonna get yelled at for not getting permission…We are having twins!”

It gets even better, Cannon explained. During a recent White House Christmas special taping, an emotional Carey finally broke the news about the twins to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

[From Us Weekly]

Of course they broke the news to the president of the United States first. Of course. Because President Obama needed to be the first to know about Sparklepony Glitterdazzle Cannon and Butterfly Creamsicle Cannon. I CAN’T WAIT.

You know what’s weird? I never really think of Mariah Carey as a big gay diva icon. Like, I think of Cher, Barbra Streisand, Liza, Judy Garland, even Celine Dion as the definitive divas that the gays flock to – but Mariah is up there, isn’t she? Why shouldn’t she be? She’s got the voice, she’s got the crazy costumes, the over-the-top makeup, and the whole “butterfly” fetish – she’s a drag act waiting to happen. Anyway, Mariah is interviewed in the new issue of The Advocate, and she talks about bullying, gay marriage, and whether she secretly dreams of having a gay son:

Her message to young victims of antigay bullying:
It’s horrible that it’s almost 2011 and this is still going on, but I don’t want to get on my podium and say, “Just keep believing!” – I know that’s cliché, and it would be typical of me to say something like that. It’s almost impossible to say anything, really, except you must be aware that dealing with that in high school is a passing place. You have to stay strong, rely on your true friends, and try to get through it, as opposed to drowning in it. Look at how many people suffered during high school and came out of it a better, stronger adult. That’s the thing to focus on.

On gay marriage:
If two people want to get married, it’s their prerogative — we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness. Ever since I was a little girl, my mother was very open-minded and had many different types of friends, so being gay never seemed wrong or strange to me. Her best friends were a gay couple, Ernie and Mort, and they kind of co-raised me. They were the nicest guys ever, and they would watch my little shows when I’d sing. Today, I guess they’d be called my guncles. Sometimes they’d put us up when we didn’t have a place to go. I couldn’t wait to go stay at their house because it was so beautifully done.

How might you and Nick handle it if your child turned out to be gay?
I guess we’d handle it as best we could in terms of being supportive.

You strike me as one of those people who might secretly hope for a gay son.
[Laughs] I just hope for whoever’s going to be happy and that I can be a great mother to.

On having a lesbian daughter who won’t wear Mariah’s tight hand-me-down dresses and butterfly jewelry:
No comment. [Laughs] No, the thing is that you can’t try to make somebody something they’re not. Everybody’s like, “Oh, if she has a girl, everything’s going to be pink, blah, blah, blah.” But I don’t think you should go totally overboard on that. You should wait and see what the child wants.

On bisexual rumors:
If it makes somebody happy to say that, then whatever, but that’s not the reality. I don’t have a discriminatory policy of who I’m friends with, so yes, I’m friends with women who are gay – gay, straight, it doesn’t matter to me. So I don’t get upset when I hear that, because it is what it is. I guess I could lie about it to seem more exciting.

On the rumor that Lindsay Lohan tried to seduce her:
No, but I have hung out with her at a club. She was with Sean Lennon, and they came over. I remember he was playing my Hello Kitty guitar, and we were all just singing, laughing, and making up songs. It really couldn’t have been more innocent.

On Burlesque being the new Glitter:
I haven’t seen it, and I don’t feel like sitting in a movie theater right now. I can barely lay in bed and be comfortable. First, I’m going to go see Elf, the Broadway musical, because I’m very focused on my Christmas music moment. But maybe I’ll see it when it comes out on DVD.

On turning her Christmas songs into a musical:
It definitely wouldn’t be about my life; start that rumor and they’ll never lose it, so make sure people know it’s not about my life. Right now we’re working on finding a script. We’ve been in discussions with HBO for over three years now. Everybody’s been very supportive of the project, but nobody wants to accept a script that’s not amazing. Anybody out there reading this who’s a writer or writer-in-training, we’re definitely accepting different ideas right now. Because it’s so important to me, I don’t want to make a mistake and have the script not be as good as the music. I want the script to be better than the music. … A long time ago, the first idea I had was for it to be on Broadway and hopefully become a perennial. Then we spoke with HBO and got into discussions about making a movie musical. So it wouldn’t be a TV movie, because it’s not TV, it’s HBO.

Last year you made magic with filmmaker Lee Daniels in Precious, and now you’ve created another holiday miracle with Marc Shaiman. Not to detract from their talent, but is there something special about gay men that makes them a perfect creative match for you?
I mean, how could I say that there’s not? I can’t generalize too much because straight people I work with will be like, “Well, what does that say about me?” But it is true that there’s a certain chemistry there. Yes, their talents are gigantic, but they’re also open-minded, and it’s all about the shared references. I really clicked with Marc when we wrote our first song together, “Christmas Time Is in the Air Again,” because our references were so similar. His are way deeper than mine in terms of standards and older Broadway stuff, but he was surprised that I knew old standards that most people don’t know, because my mom would sing them when I was really little. And Lee’s another one that you just can’t help but love. He’s got his own unique personality, and we share so many of the same references as well. I can’t even think of all the crazy things we quote and laugh about.

[From The Advocate]

See, she’s down with the gays. So why don’t I have the association of Mariah and a gay fan base in my mind? Is it my problem, or does she just treat all of her fans equally, gay or straight, they are all her beautiful butterflies?

Also: I am enjoying SO MUCH how Mariah is already plotting to get herself a really girly daughter. She’s already got a plan to ease her potential daughter into the pink stuff, by not overexposing a girl into too much girly stuff right away. Mariah has given this some thought!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Nick Cannon just killed my dream. My dream was that Mariah Carey was expecting twin girls, and that she was planning on naming them Butterfly Princess Glitter and Rainbow Sunshine Cupcake. But it was just a lie (not really)! Nick Cannon just confirmed to Us Weekly that he and Mariah are just expecting one baby, not two, and that they don’t know the sex yet. Nick also confirmed a few other things too:

Mariah Carey may be staying mum, but her hubby Nick Cannon wants to clarify something: they’re only expecting one bundle of joy.

“That rumor started because she said something about ‘they,” the comic told UsMagazine.com at the Time Warner Cable Launch of SignatureHome Thursday. “Something like, ‘I hope they don’t hate Christmas,” but she was using the word ‘they’ as in, like, he and she.”

And while Cannon said the pair doesn’t know yet if it’s a boy or a girl, he is coming clean about something else. Yes, he did whisper to Carey’s belly that there is no Santa.

“I got in trouble for that,” he told Us. “I’m a Santa-ologist. At three-years-old my Dad told me there was no Santa. And my wife is Mrs. Christmas, so I have to compromise on that.”

But he’s not willing to budge on his mandate that Carey stick to flats for the remainder of her pregnancy. “Yes, no more heels,” he told Us. “I’m going to make sure of it!”

[From Us Weekly]

I kind of love the idea of Nick trying to order Mariah to give up her heels. That would be like getting Posh Beckham to stop posing so hard, or trying to get Renee Zellweger to stop squinting. The heels (and the too-tight, inappropriate dresses) are what makes Mariah special. If she isn’t tripping all over herself in too-high stripper heels, what is she?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Mariah Carey was on HSN on Monday shilling her jewelry, perfume, Christmas album and shoes for a whopping six hours. A blogger named FourFour made a highlights video of Mariah’s appearance, and she basically repeated the same themes over and over. It was so damn funny.

Mariah’s talking points, which she kept revisiting, include:
- She is pregnant and tired
- Her hands are swollen from being pregnant
- She is pregnant and hypersensitive to smells and tastes
- She used to hate perfume and only uses a spritz
- Her perfume spritzing technique involves spraying it, walking into the lingering mist, and doing a “diva turn”
- She collects antique and vintage perfume bottles
- She loves the holidays
- Her perfume is an outlet for her creativity, like her music
- Her perfumers were listening to her music when they created her fragrance
- She wrote “All I Want for Christmas is You” and it’s not a vintage song!
- Her response to all fans is “Aww”

Also, Mariah said “KKLB” to Nick over the phone but wouldn’t tell what it stood for.

Yes Mariah basically said the same things over and over again, but what else is she supposed to talk about for six hours? I found it all kind of sweet. Like she’s a diva, she has her interests, and we’re supposed to listen and nod. She’s like an elderly great aunt who always tells the same stories but you smile and look her in the eye out of respect and say “yes” while you think about something else. This seems to be Mariah’s tactic for dealing with fans as well.

Mariah also gave an interview to Extra yesterday, (video below) in which she talked about her pregnancy (she’s tired, she’s not going to say whether she’s having twins or the gender of the baby/ies), her holiday plans (she’s not going to Aspen as usual due to the elevation, but wherever she goes there has to be snow) and her Thanksgiving (she cooked corn and potatoes and they were the best parts of a meal that was undoubtedly prepared by multiple gourmet chefs). She also promoted her line with HSN and – surprise! – repeated one of her talking points “I couldn’t even cut this ring off if I tried.”

Photo credit: WENN.com

I think we put this in the links a few days ago, but it’s worth noting again – Mariah Carey MAY have let it slip that she’s expecting twins. She’s being vague, and she wants everyone to speculate, of course. She’s MARIAH. She’s always the most important person, topic, etc. Anyway, Mariah was tweeting something about her pregnancy and her Christmas special (on NBC), and she wrote “I just hope that they don’t turn out hating Christmas!” Oh, MIMI.

Are there two—or more?—mini-Mariah Careys on the way?

The 40-year-old singer, who recently announced that she and husband Nick Cannon are expecting, spoke with Radio Disney’s Ernie D. to promote her new holiday CD, Merry Christmas II You, on Tuesday, and while explaining that she sings songs from her new album to her baby bump, Carey let slip wit an offhand statement that will no doubt launch 1,000 rumors: “I just hope that they don’t turn out hating Christmas!”

“They”? Very interesting. Cannon, who normally is quite active on Twitter regarding personal matters, has been radio silent on the issue … likely holding any big reveals or denials for his own radio show.

[From Celebuzz]

It’s perfectly possible that Mariah is expecting twins – I’m pretty certain that she got pregnant using some kind of fertility drugs or maybe even IVF, both of which can lead to multiples. Here’s a thought: what if it’s twin girls? How awesome and amazing would that be?

Whenever I think of Mariah Carey and Christmas together, I always think of Love, Actually. That scene, you know? That scene that will give you goosebumps no matter how many times you see it. The scene where Joanna, the little American girl – the object of little Sam’s affection – sings Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas is You”. And little Joanna kills it… sigh… I’m going to watch that movie again over Thanksgiving. Anyway, Mariah Carey did a show at Rockefeller Center last night – it was all for a pretaped Christmas show for NBC, airing on November 30.

I guess it’s notable because this is the first performance and major outing Mariah has given since she announced her pregnancy – she was pregnant when she performed in Brazil a few months ago, but that was before she announced anything. Personally, I think Mariah looks amazing – I don’t know how far along she is, but I find her radiant and beautiful. This red coat certainly helps – I’m not pregnant, and I totally want it.

Photos courtesy of Fame.

Of all the solutions to life’s struggles and tribulations, acupuncture is one of the remedies I am most wary of. I understand the idea behind it – that our bodies have pressure points, and that if you “puncture” a certain part of your toe, your headache will be relieved, et cetera. I know people who swear by it. I know people who hate needles of all kinds, and get barfy and queasy at the idea of someone sticking something sharp into them. I am one of the latter category. I get barfy around needles. My mother was recently hospitalized, and they couldn’t find a vein to get blood, and the nurse was jabbing at my mom’s arm, and I swear, I started sweating and hyperventilating and I almost passed out.

Anyway, Mariah Carey swears by acupuncture, and she claims – in a new cover interview with Us Weekly – that it helped her in the difficult months she and Nick were trying to get pregnant after their first miscarriage.

After suffering a miscarriage following her April 2008 wedding to Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey cried herself to sleep many nights. But in an exclusive interview in the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now), the singer says she and Cannon never gave up.

Though she dismisses reports that she did IVF, Carey tells Us Weekly she began taking progesterone, a hormone that is often prescribed to boost fertility and support or help maintain pregnancy in women susceptible to miscarriage.

Cannon also tells Us Weekly his wife relied on “once-a-day” acupuncture, “all over her body. I think it helped her quite a bit, because it was a good destressor.”

Seeing Carey’s face when they learned she was pregnant “was priceless,” Cannon recalls. “We definitely cried. We still cry all the time. It’s an emotional journey.”

With their baby due in spring, Carey says it still “amazes” her she’s going to have Cannon’s child. “He’s a great person, and we have more in common than not,” she tells Us Weekly.

“I know people initially were, ‘What? Those two?’ But I think people who know us get it.”

For more – including what Carey thinks about her “weight gain”; what foods she’s craving “in the middle of the night” and how they found out she was pregnant – pick up the new Us Weekly today!

[From Us Weekly]

If it works for her, then that’s great. But do you think she’s lying about not doing IVF? I don’t know, I really don’t. I think it’s perfectly possible that Mariah was on the motherload of fertility drugs, and that’s all.

By the way, Mariah was just on Ellen DeGeneres’ show, and she talked about whether she would force pink onto a possible daughter – it’s really funny. Mariah is already scheming her way into getting either a super-girly-girl or a very fabulous boy.

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