Mariah Carey: “I’m an icon for outcasts”
Mariah Carey is glad she suffered hardships in her youth – because her turbulent childhood has made her an icon for social outcasts.
The Heartbreaker diva claims her mixed-race heritage meant she wasn’t accepted by her peers as white or black – but hopes her meteoric rise to fame will allow bi-racial fans to see their own potential.
She tells U.S. magazine Parade, “I felt very much like an outcast when I was younger. No matter where I went, there was always this sense of not really falling into place or into one category. I moved around a lot when I was growing up, so nobody knew me and I was never one thing or the other. Being biracial, I didn’t really have somebody to look at and say, ‘Okay, this person is exactly the same as me, and they’re out there.’”
And the singing sensation claims she will never grow up – so as to never forget the struggles she went through to become successful. “A lot of kids have said that to me, ‘Until you put your first record out, I didn’t feel like there was anybody that was the same as me.’ People who don’t feel like they fit in can identify with me. I promised myself when I was a little girl that I would never forget what it felt like to be a kid. I never wanted to grow up and be out of touch with what that feels like.”
March 21st, 2008 at 8:11 am
Oh Jesus Christ with her big ole bag of bullshit.
I grew up Hindu, Mexican and half IRISH. Nobody gave a fuck and I certainly didn’t walk around worried about not fitting in. Mariah was beautiful, rich, and famous by the time she was 18, why is she always going around saying how hard she had it? Because she was bi-racial? Growing up, the bi-racial kids always were considered beautiful and attractive at my school. Booooo hoooo, “I didn’t fit in anywhere.” She’s beautiful (or at least, she used to be) and talented and just like Jessica Abla she can’t shut her yap about being ugly and different when the fact is–she never was ugly or that different.
Bitch needs to GET OVER HERSELF.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:51 am
LOL, eh. Agreed.
March 21st, 2008 at 9:56 am
she is a dumb sluttly ho
March 21st, 2008 at 12:49 pm
But this is the first time in her sorry life she’s admitted to having parentoids. I thought she crawled out from under a rock. Think I’ll go rename my hermit crab MC, Rock Troll doesn’t fit him as well.
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:15 pm
so you can’t have your own insecurities just because you’re rich and famous. yeah right, You need to get over yourself eh? her parents had to divorce because of racism and she should feel great about that. it’s already hard to be black in america but at the time it was even harder to be biracial. i’m sick and tired of people thinkingg that just because you have succeeded you should forget your problems and live like you never had any! she has every right to say the struggles she went trough during her childhood like ever joe and jane