Mariah Carey is 49 years old and on the cover of Cosmopolitan, wearing a tiara and a t-shirt with her own airbrushed face. It’s all very MARIAH. In all honesty though, I feel like Mariah is very happy these days. She went through a rough patch after her divorce from Nick Cannon, and I don’t think that failed engagement from James Packer helped her in any way. Now she’s got something happening with a backup dancer, and she’s still making music and having fun on online and she just seems to be… in a good mood. She’s back to being playful and light. So I enjoyed this fluff piece from Cosmo – some highlights:
On the difference between her and the new breed of superstars: “They have no idea what I went through as a child to even get to be an 18-year-old girl with a record deal. This was before you could just go on YouTube and sing.”
On growing up on Long Island as a mixed African-American, Venezuelan, and Irish girl with divorced parents and financial challenges: “People didn’t understand who I was, what I was, my ethnicity, the fact that we didn’t have money.”
On how her rocky childhood shaped her love of Christmas: “As a kid, I always hoped for great Christmases, and we didn’t have them. My brother and sister would come back to wherever I was with my mom, and they’d be fighting and ruining the holiday. I would still be like You know what? I just want to have the best time.”
On industry artists writing their own music: “A lot of artists say they write, but they don’t really write. No offense to anybody, that’s just what I’ve seen.”
On her apparent preference for younger men: “I haven’t had that many, but there has been a variety pack. I’ve only been with five people in my life, so I’m kind of a prude, honestly, compared to most others in the field.”
On the best birthday present she’s ever gotten: “I don’t have birthdays.”
On her advice for taking a good selfie: “Let someone else take the picture. Unpurse your lips!!! Ugh.
I love her. I’m not a Mariah stan usually, but all of her quotes cracked me up. She’s so mad that the youths get recording contracts after simply putting up YouTube videos. She’s so mad that people claim to be songwriters and they definitely aren’t. And the Christmas quote broke me heart a little bit and made me understand her – she’s all about Christmas because of her own sh-tty childhood. All she wanted for Christmas was a nice, happy Christmas. And she never got that when she was a kid, so now she tries to give some Christmas magic to herself and other people. I would imagine her kids have PERFECT Christmases, don’t you?
Oh, and she’s only been with five people? I believe it. I just can’t believe she told her number to Cosmo!
Photos courtesy of Cosmopolitan, photos sent from promotional Cosmo email.
On the best birthday present she’s ever gotten: “I don’t have birthdays.”
I LOVE IT AND HER!!!!!!!!
She said the same thing in the 90s about her number and had been married and engaged since. So idk.
Yeah. I dont care how many people she’s been with, but she’s lying here. Or maybe because it’s Mariah, she’s refusing to acknowledge the ones she regrets. That’s totally it.
She said that “I can count the number of people I’ve been with on one hand” before, back in like 2005 when she was saying she never slept with Eminem. If you count Tommy Mottola, Nick Cannon, James Packer, Bryan Tanaka, and Luis Miguel, there’s five. And three of those came after her initial quote back in 2005.
Considering she had relationships with other people, including Derek Jeter, I find it hard to believe she’s only been with five. But who knows, maybe she’s being honest!
Maybe it’s just like her birthday comment: in truth, Mariah stopped counting her age and her number in the 90’s
There’s been rumours (I think it was in regards with James Packer), that she didn’t want to have sex with James even when she was engaged to him. I guess it would make sense in this case that she doesn’t necessarily sleep with every person she dates or gets engaged to.
I find her so relatable here. Amazing! Love that “selfie” tip. The best selfie is no selfie! (Mariah knows her angles.)
Sorry not sorry I love her and I love her diva ways because she has the talent to back it up. And she’s right we have YouTube stars that are only famous because they’re willing to do anything and everything with no shame. Give me Mariah and her “I was told there would be tea” any day than Taylor’s, Camilla’s and Miley’s.
Or worse, ie that Cash Me Outside girl…ugh! Though not sure we our gratitude to YouTube or Dr Phil for her 15 and counting minutes.
I don’t know why anyone should doubt her. Sex takes effort and someone has been carrying Mimi and holding her straw since 2001 at the latest.
And I’m not sure I believe she’s slept with Packer or is sleeping with this new one.
The selfie tip made me LOL. Too real.
I really don’t care how many people she has slept with or what she is trying to prove by sharing her number.
Which I don’t believe anyways.
Her comment reminds me of something Zsa Zsa Gabor once said.. I can’t remember it exactly but it was something like “I don’t believe in going to bed before marriage, so I get married often.”
Gotta love these true divas.
Elizabeth Taylor also said she’d married every man she’s slept with.
Yeah I’m not buying the numbers, not that i care about how many guys shes been with but the lies are super annoying. And I 100% think that in her coo-coo cabeza she has a host of reasons on why it “doesnt really count”. Loca.
I love Mariah who’s an unapologetic Diva. I agree with much she said. I don’t think you can compare today’s artists with the old school ones. Apples and oranges.
Her days on American Idol with Nicki Minaj were epic. Keith Urban is likely still in therapy.
“I don’t have birthdays.” is what I am putting on a tshirt. Aspire to be fabulous no matter what, not even the time will stop me
Rumor has always been that she doesn’t like sex so maybe the number is true. She may be someone who experiences pain or maybe there was abuse as a child and she refrains as an adult or she just doesn’t like it. Or maybe she doesn’t want to mess her hair or make-up lol.Mariah has always seemed to be brutally honest so I cam believe it. Even saying she can on one hand isn’t an indication. That can be anywhere between 1-5.
Even Eminem said they pretty much just dry humped (which was aimed as an insult) so I can totally believe she’s not into sex and doesn’t have it a lot. And she doesn’t even count someone like Em.
That tiara on the magazine cover is exactly like the one Meghan wore at her wedding.
Was just going to say this! Made me lol. Oh Mariah.