That’s why I want my kids to have everything they can have.” “But when you grow up with a messed-up life and then you’re able to have this transformation where you can make your life what you want it to be? That is joy for me. The singer told W: “People think I had this princess-style life or whatever, a kind of fairy-tale existence where I just emerged, like, ‘Here I am!’ And that is not what it is. Mariah’s mum Patricia Carey, who is white, performed with the New York City Opera, while her black/Hispanic dad Alfred Roy Carey was an aeronautical engineer. She said she felt “othered” as a biracial girl growing up in a mainly white neighbourhood in New York, and said her childhood was so “dysfunctional” it is “shocking” she “made it out of that at all.” Mariah added her prima donna persona is both an “affectation” and “response” to her upbringing.

“Like, what do you do if you grew up with an opera singer for a mother, who went to Juilliard and made her debut at Lincoln Center?” She said: “There are things people are not aware of because this whole quote-unquote ‘diva’ thing is always what people see first. The singer, 52, made the admission to W Magazine in a phone interview published on Friday (25.11.22), which she gave while enjoying a bubble bath.

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