Nor should she be!
So what else is there to know about Carey beyond the ballads and re-circulated gossip?
What makes her tick, and what are her hopes for the future?
And are all of those crazy rumors about her really true?
This is the untold truth of Mariah Carey.
And while none of those are true, according to Carey, she does have an interesting bathing habit.
“I bathe in milk,” she revealed toThe Guardian.
“Yes, sometimes I use milk as a beauty treatment.”
Cold milk, specifically.
As to whether Carey would ever consider bathing in the fancy French water?
That certainly beats not being able to bathe at all, though the carbonation might tickle a bit.
Carey also denied that she asks hotels to install golden taps in her rooms.
What would be the point in that anyway?
At least, she owns up to having diva moments, something that she attributes to her DNA.
“And that’s a real diva, you know Juilliard diva.”
She does have a fair point!
to help pay the bills.
“By 18, I had left home and was living in the city.
Waitressing at the South Street Seaport,” she recalled toPitchfork.
“I ended up staying with one girl on the Upper West Side.”
It wasn’t just the two of them, either, as the girl already had two roommates.
The apartment where Carey and her roomies lived wasn’t exactly spacious, either.
“I had to climb up on the kitchen counter to get in the loft,” she continued.
“I still paid $500 a month for that little space.”
That sounds like Manhattan for you!
Her first album alone had four No.
1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, as noted byBillboard, which is quite the remarkable feat.
But despite these landmark accomplishments, Carey wasn’t able to truly enjoy her fame.
“The big boys were always in control.”
“I was cloistered,” she continued.
Carey eventually divorced Mottola, and she celebrated her artistic freedom with the 1997 albumButterfly.
Our girl was too strong to be held down like that for long!
And while many folks have described these events as a Cinderella story, Carey said it was anything but.
“You might want to picture a child bride,” she toldCosmopolitan.
“There was a conscious effort to keep me as this all-American, whatever that means, girl.”
“It was very controlled,” she continued.
“There was no freedom for me as a human being.”
She added that the experience was like being kept “prisoner.”
“I didn’t want to be a kept woman.”
Considering that Carey was a hit machine from the start, she certainly didn’t have to be.
So if people thought Carey was just with Mottola for the money, they were sorely mistaken.
“Most people have the misconception that I was,” she continued.
“I paid for half of every single bit of that gigantic mansion in Bedford.
We are 100 percent here for this!
“When I was little …
I always wanted Christmas to be perfect and so special,” she confessed toVariety.
“There’s just no greater feeling or emotion than having that day.”
That diagnosis is something that she only came to terms with in 2018, after years of struggling.
“I was working and working and working,” she explained in an interview withPeople.
“I was irritable and in constant fear of letting people down.
It turns out that I was experiencing a form of mania.”
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That’s an experience that Carey describes as very physical, depending on how she’s feeling that day.
“There’s a lot of energy and a lot of power that that has.”
I like that,'” she continued.
Mariah Carey had a rough childhood
You could say that Mariah Carey is living the dream.
“It was very difficult,” she toldPitchfork.
Unfortunately, some folks sowed confusion in her because of that fact.
Which are you?'"
she recalled in a chat withVariety.
“And it’s very wrong to do that to a kid.”
Understandably, being asked that so often took its toll on Carey.
Carey also felt lonely because she didn’t feel that she fit in anywhere.
“I was so ambiguous-looking.”
Carey added that she had to go through a lot before she felt like she was worthy of existing.
And though they split up permanently in 2016, Cannon and Carey are still friends, as noted byVariety.
And while there have been a few other flames here and there, Carey isn’t exactly a player.
Perhaps Carey just has better things to do?
So what does she eat to stay in such good shape?
“It’s really hard.
My diet, you would hate it,” she explained in a chat withE!
“All you eat is Norwegian salmon and capers every day.
That’s it.”
That’s… it?
Fortunately, someone close to the singer provided some elaboration in another interview.
“She is also working out regularly and eating clean, whole foods with a focus on vegetables.”
Carey does have one guilty pleasure, according to the source, and that is a little bit ofwine.
In fact, she was once presented with an opportunity to sell her songs instead of sing them.
“All these songs that ended up becoming No.
1 songs later, after I got my deal.”
“I had seen documentaries about theBeatlesselling their publishing, or having it stolen,” she continued.
Boy was she smart not to take the money and run!
