Mariah Carey reveals in an interview that she “can’t help” being a diva

• The five-time Grammy winner, 52, stated in a phone interview with W Magazine that was published on Friday
• Their famous daughter claims that the prima donna character is a combination of her upbringing and “affectation.”
• Mariah characterized her childhood as “very dysfunctional… to the point that it’s astonishing that [she] made it out of it at all” as a mixed girl growing up in a largely white neighborhood in New York.

Mariah Carey chose the diva life; it wasn’t the other way around. The five-time Grammy winner, 52, stated in a phone interview  that was published on Friday “there are things people are not aware of because this entire quote-unquote ‘diva’ thing is always what people see first.” The interview took place while she was enjoying a bubble bath.

“Yes, I play into it. And yes, part of that is real. I can’t help it,” she explained. “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?”

Patricia Carey, a performer with the New York City Opera, is Caucasian. Aeronautical engineer Alfred Roy Carey, a black and Hispanic man, was.

Their famous daughter claims that the prima donna character is a combination of her upbringing and “affectation.”

Mariah characterized her childhood as “very dysfunctional… to the point that it’s astonishing that [she] made it out of it at all” as a mixed girl growing up in a largely white neighborhood in New York.

The musical icon revealed that her childhood Christmases were anything but idyllic as she brought the spirit of her favorite holiday to this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade while decked out in a tiara and ballgown.

“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,” she told the mag.

“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,” she explained. “That’s why I want my kids to have everything they can have.”

Mariah channeled those desires into a children’s book about a young girl named Little Mariah, whose 11-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, stole the show during her “All I Want for Christmas” performance on Thursday. “The Christmas Princess” is the name of it.

She made sure to note that the book’s title was “Not Because I Think I’m a Christmas Princess or Any of Those Things That I’ve Never Called Myself,” mockingly ignoring her recently unsuccessful attempt to register the name “Queen of Christmas” as a trademark.

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