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Lionel and Mariah (77,552) by Jeff from USA Got my tickets to the August 18th show in Newark, NJ. So excited, y'all. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 14:58)

Re: M3rry Christmas (77,548) (77,551) by Mimi L. from Empower Your Highlighter Mara, I hope your surgery goes well and you recover super fast. My prayers are with you, lots of love. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 12:44)

Re: Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,534) (77,550) by TJ from Norway I didn't say that this fat shaming is ok (well, I didn't mean to do that), but because of how she act in the public eye, she will be a target. I love her music, her voice and ability to touch people through that, but I don't love, even don't like the way she portrait herself. She has spent too much time making a fool of herself with this "I don't know her", acting eternal 12, being a diva and so on. It might be her sense of humour, but non-fans don't get it. What goes around, comes around. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 08:28)

Article: Mariah Carey reveals her 3 must-have items (77,549) by Gemma from Australia I love these kind of stories. This is how Mariah should be all the time, beautiful, caring, appreciative of her fans and children and more importantly sane and fully dressed lol. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 08:08)

Re: M3rry Christmas (77,545) (77,548) by Mara from United States I am doing good, thank you for asking. I have surgery scheduled next week and with the help of God, all will be good. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 06:03)

Re: Like the rest of us, she isn't (77,546) (77,547) by Manny from U.S. By that logic, the US does have a bulging problem. Then we should be more compassionate. Let's not be like Andre Leon asking Mimi to lose weight, while we stuffed our faces. I get it; she is a public person, but she is a human. She still has a personal life that we don't know about. We are fans and we don't know her. We don't know her at the end of the day. We think we know the whole story from what she says in interviews. She chose to be a singer, we chose to be fans. She'll choose to lose weight on her own. I don't associate her weight gain to her "failures". I think she's doing well. She does need a better team but she is still working. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 04:58)

Re: Like the rest of us, she isn't (77,544) (77,546) by Edward from USA Yes, it makes sense when it comes to a celebrity whose income is directly proportional to the public image she portrays. Regular people don't get "he/she is just a human" pass when they don't do their job well. Yes, she has the means to even get a psychologist or a psychiatrist should she need one. Many fat people here in America don't have free healthcare or the means to get help, and things are about to get worse now. Mariah has the money for that. I'm not saying we, as fans, shouldn't be compassionate. At the end of the day we're her fans and stick with her through thick and thin, but we shouldn't expect that from the general public who don't know what we know about her, only what she shows, her diva persona that comes across as arrogant most of the time. There's a great person behind that diva facade, why not show it? Mariah saved an old friend's life by paying for her alternative cancer treatment, she didn't hesitate to give the woman the money. We, as fans, can believe and relate to that Mariah, but the rest wouldn't believe it based on the way she behaves. She doesn't have to change who she is, but this is a game she's playing to win or at least to stay in for a long time. She can't do the same things over and over expecting different results, that's the definition of insanity. We have witnessed that when Mariah put herself into it, she sings well consistently, dress well and let that beautiful person shine through. Mariah is a wonderful person, but the last 3 fans she has won't be enough to keep her in the game, even if we buy multiple copies of her albums, singles, perfumes, panties or watch her reality show. If she doesn't get the general public on board somehow, her career is doomed. She's doing great with Lionel Richie, I hope she keeps it up. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 02:26)

Re: M3rry Christmas (77,543) (77,545) by Licia from USA Lol. Glad I could make you laugh. How have you been doing Mara? (Saturday 29 July 2017; 01:48)

Re: Like the rest of us, she isn't (77,536) (77,544) by Manny from U.S. I'm sorry I don't agree with this. I know some people from the gym who take public transportation who have the fittest sexiest bodies I've seen. They don't have the cash to pay a personal trainer but are committed to fitness. To say Mariah has the means so she should be fit doesn't make sense. Obviously her weight gain, like Janet's and many Americans is deeper than that. It is something psychological. Overeating is an addiction. I agree with Hilton, she'll lose weight when she is ready. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 01:07)

Re: M3rry Christmas (77,515) (77,543) by Mara from United States Licia, that post made me spit out my drink, no lie. Thanks for the laugh. And your description on another Christmas album is exactly how I feel, lol. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 01:06)

Re: Mariah and Chelsea (77,526) (77,542) by RibbonB from USA Lol I like to just think of Stella as "Crusty the chicken finger clown". (Saturday 29 July 2017; 00:41)

Mariah interview quote (77,541) by Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan from USA Does anyone remember which 2006/07 magazine Mariah did where she was asked if she felt either validation or vindication (can't remember) with the success of TEOM. Mariah had a great response that went something like, "If I believe the critics' praise then I have to also believe their criticisms counting me out." I want the actual quote but can't remember the interview it's from. Please help. (Saturday 29 July 2017; 00:28)

Re: Mariah and Chelsea (77,531) (77,540) by RibbonB from USA Chelsea is a dumb ass IMO, she is not funny. Wendy shades Mariah, but at least acts like a "glamb" and would make for an entertaining show if Mariah ever appeared there. (Friday 28 July 2017; 23:40)

Re: Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,535) (77,539) by TJ from Norway I agree with you, and maybe she finds it again. (Friday 28 July 2017; 23:39)

Re: Like the rest of us, she isn't (77,536) (77,538) by Hilton from USA Mariah is a person. She will lose weight when she feels like it and that's the end of it. We already know by default that she has access to whatever she wants and how she's goes about utilizing those things is totally up to her. You can look at her and hold her up to any standard that you want, and that's fine. I'm holding her up to a realistic standard. She's gonna gain weight, fine, she's gonna have a bad attitude some days, fine, she's gonna sing off some days, fine, she's gonna throw shade some days, fine. You do all those too, just like I do. Her personality is her personality. If she feels the need to check someone then by all means she has the freedom to do so, just like you and I. Those moments do not encompass everything that she is. Those are pieces of her. She has a good heart, she's a great entertainer and I always felt like most times her reactions to things were appropriate. Not always, some thing can be reeled in of course, but for the most part I think she's a decent person. So with that said I'll continue to hope that she puts out a slamming album, has great promo, has great videos, dishes out some great performances and has some fun light hearted in depth interviews. I'll also hope that she's happy in her personal life along with her kids. I'm in no position to tell someone [...] I do that with my own life and clearly she's doing it with hers. (Friday 28 July 2017; 23:22)

Re: Like the rest of us, she isn't (77,536) (77,537) by Warrior Butterfly from USA Well said Edward. (Friday 28 July 2017; 23:09)

Like the rest of us, she isn't (77,536) by Edward from USA I do think Mariah is a good person. I also think there's humbleness in her, but the diva game she's been playing ever since she started believing her own hype has tarnished her brand. It's not about whether she's perfect or not, nobody's asking her to be perfect. When you're a celebrity as big as she is, people are going to talk about and make up shit about you. It is about coming across in a way that people wouldn't think you're just an arrogant superficial bitch. Mariah has a huge ego, but when she puts it in check or when she listens to professional people who actually want to help her, she usually comes out a winner. As much as we don't want to admit it, Mariah is not like the rest of us, she's a celebrity and with fame and fortune comes responsibility too. I don't believe in fat shaming, but we can all be fat in our respective homes, but Mariah can't afford being fat and not being noticed. She signed up for a life of luxury, fame, fortune, now she should deal it with it. If she can bring Stella and her posse with her everywhere, she could hire and bring a personal trainer along together with a cook and a dietician. If overweight people had the means she has, I'm pretty sure they would do the same, but with Mariah everything's going to be magnified and she should just do something about it. That's the life she chose, and no matter how many times we try to convince ourselves that Mariah is just a mere human like the rest of us, well, sorry to tell you that she isn't. Let's not pretend people are going to give her a break, she should give herself a break from all the shenanigans that haven't obviously been working for her and then things would definitely change. It's up to her, not to us. She definitely needs to go back to the drawing board, back to basics. (Friday 28 July 2017; 21:34)

Re: Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,533) (77,535) by MusicfanJ from Germany TJ that's very interesting. I've always thought that during the Daydream era she started to become a little more diva like. I wish she would enjoy the fame and still show the world her humble side. I love the humble and shy Mariah from the beginning. But it must be very hard to stay completely "natural" with such a success. Although I think it's possible. (Friday 28 July 2017; 19:33)

Re: Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,533) (77,534) by Hilton from USA Um, yeah, okay. Fat shaming is uncalled for period. At the end of the day two wrongs don't make a right. Every single one of us has possibly, but not limited to, been mean to someone, maybe judged someone, treated someone badly, said something mean to someone and the list goes on. Mariah is no different than us. She's not perfect, but at the end of the day she doesn't have a bad heart and she's not an awful person. Leave her alone. She's not superhuman. She's imperfect just like the rest of us. She's not gonna be on her A game all the time. Just like we won't be on outs all the time. Give the woman a break. Unreal. (Friday 28 July 2017; 18:57)

Re: Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,532) (77,533) by TJ from Norway There's a reason Adele, Jennifer Aniston and so on doesn't get that treatment. I wish Mariah would find her humble side again. My neighbour met her many times through work in the beginning of her career and told me she was the most humble, a little bit shy, and the cutest person ever, but it all changed as her career took off. By the time Merry Christmas was released she was a different person and not in a good way. Fame isn't always as good as people think. (Friday 28 July 2017; 13:25)

Re: Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,528) (77,532) by Andrew from UK People make fun of Mariah because she has afforded herself one of the worst reputations for any star of her calibre. People just don't like her. There's no ambivalence. They'll dance to her music and sing along to Hero, but when asked about her, I imagine everyone here has heard many people retort with "I can't stand her." She throws overt desperate and needy sexualism in people's faces and that's not what they were, or are, looking for from her. In a society that thinks gluttony is a disgusting character trait, if you pile on the pounds, it's best you don't take your clothes off and ask people to pay you sexual attention or show adoration, seemingly to feed your own warped ego. They'll tear you down. For a woman that has spent a lifetime trying to be qualified by having men want to [censored] her and women be jealous of her, it's not surprising that people want to mock her for wanting to have her cake and eat it now. Literally and figuratively. She knows that being thin sells, or she wouldn't airbrush every photo she has the influence to have airbrushed to within an inch of its life. She's either too lazy to lose weight or just doesn't care. Either way, it's about time she started to dress properly and act with some dignity. People celebrate the humble and dignified, they don't tear them down. It's rather bad sport. (Friday 28 July 2017; 10:08)

Re: Mariah and Chelsea (77,530) (77,531) by Todd from Melbourne, Australia I know that her and Nick Cannon have had some beef, but thought she wasn't fairly indifferent to Mariah. Also I don't think she throws shade, she just says what everybody is thinking. (Friday 28 July 2017; 02:13)

Re: Mariah and Chelsea (77,527) (77,530) by RibbonB from USA Mariah would be Wendy Wiliams' bff before she would ever appear on Chelsea's show. Chelsea has thrown Mimi nothing but shade. (Friday 28 July 2017; 00:24)

Re: The Star (77,512) (77,529) by RibbonB from USA Mariah has been playing opposites for the last couple of hears now, but I don't think it is permanent, unless, you know. (Friday 28 July 2017; 00:21)

Journalists fat shaming Mariah (77,528) by Lee from UK How on earth is this ok? Whenever an article is written about Mariah there are a few stock phrases that journalists like to use over and over again and they all focus on her weight. The amount of body shaming that happens in these articles is ridiculous. Mariah is an easy target. Can you imagine journalists fat shaming Adele, it wouldn't happen. Adele may dress more conservatively than Mariah (and the gods know Mariah's fashion sense is awful) but that doesn't mean she should be body shamed. Some have gone so far as to taking fan photos of Mariah at her concert, where she wears plenty of leotards, photoshopped them to make her look bigger and then basically said "everyone look and laugh at fat Mariah". Love her or hate her, it doesn't matter. It's bullying. Simple, basic bullying and it's ok because she's difficult diva Mariah who brings it all on herself and obviously shouldn't be so proud of herself. (Friday 28 July 2017; 00:10)

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