Posted on 04/22/2008 10:12:56 AM PDT by traumer
Her diva demands and well-known love of excess is usually guaranteed to send even the most accommodating celebrity haunts into a frenzy.
So staff may be breathing a sigh of relief that pop princess Mariah Carey says she doesn't want to have any kids in the foreseeable future.
Perhaps there is just not enough room in the world for two Miss Careys.
But in a somewhat bizarre explanation, the singer has claimed that having children would leave her feeling 'violated'.
"It's hard to have kids in this world," she told OK! magazine. "I don't think I could properly educate a child right now. Maybe in the future, but I actually haven't thought about it.
"For now, I enjoy my dog Jack's company. It's definitely because of childhood traumatic stuff. The whole not wanting to have a baby as a baby.
"I never wanted to feel violated and I know that's a kind of weird thing to say, but that's how I am."
Despite approaching her 40th birthday the singer's love of pampering shows no sign of waning.
Miss Carey, who spent a week in London promoting her new album earlier this month, admits insuring her shapely legs for £1million saying: "You gotta take care of yourself. You have to try and stay pretty, you know."
In a revealing insight into just how far she will go to maintain her health, she admits to some rather strange rituals.
"My life is bizarrely healthy in some ways. I have to be overly aware of people holding the microphones. Singers who are tuned into that know that if someone touches your microphone you have to sterilise it.
And in perhaps the biggest understatement of her career, she claims that her lavish lifestyle is simply 'a little bit of heaven' that help her through some rough patches.
"Everyday I'm on this earth, I'm going to learn something, whether it's dressing up two hours before you go on stage or maybe I had a bad moment but I pulled it off.
"To me you can't let the hurt turn to pain and bitterness, otherwise I would really not be in a good place. You can't go through hell and come out of it if you haven't felt a little bit of heaven."
On her recent trip to London, Miss Carey insisted on having a £10,000 personal gym installed in her penthouse at Mayfair hotel Claridge's.
She booked every penthouse suite in the exclusive hotel to accommodate her 15 strong entourage of hairdressers, bodyguards and personal stylists.
But perhaps her greatest moment of diva madness came during a trip in 2005 when at 2am she refused to check in to her hotel until a red carpet and scented candles lined the entrance.
"I'll have 20 humidifiers around the bed," she revealed. "Basically, it's like sleeping in a steam room. The bed is all towelling cloth, the ceiling is sloped so the water can't fall on my head. My TV is behind glass."
Good for her!! There are too many celebrities who use their kids as “accessories” to keep them in the public eye. At least she is honest that she is only thinking of herself.
I wonder if her mother felt violated.
Whew! Crazy people should not have children. (Never occurred to me to sterilize a microphone.)
“Miss Carey” + baby = not good.
OK, it’s settled - I no longer want her to have my children (I’d still do her though ;’}
Thankful that this moron’s genes will not make it to the next generation.
Can I take a stab at it and also assume she is a flaming lib?
I feel violated every time I hear a Mariah Carey song.
Children are not for everyone....
I read somewhere that she has as many number one hits as Elvis. But I can’t name any of them.
The Idol thread will get a kick out of this...;)
Her and Oprah.
And enough with the whistle voice, Mariah.
ME, ME, ME, ME, ME.... And of course my fake hooters.
You all should skip the “she’s a celebrity so she’s instantly a stupid skank lib”
I commend her for actually thinking about it before having a kid just to be trendy and using it as a fashion accessory.
She actually thought about it first and I find that honorable.
...or is it against FR rules to find honor in anything a celebrity does?
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