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Mariah Carey - "Elle" August 2008

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Mariah Carey talks about her new body, new record and hot new man in the August 2008 issue of Elle magazine. Here are some of the key points Mariah drove home:

On her unhappy past: “When I was in an unhappy place in my life, I always wanted to be kidnapped. I just wanted a way out, but didn’t have one.”

On Nick Cannon saving her: “He sort of kidnapped me and took me on a helicopter ride. Then he re-proposed. (His first proposal had taken place on Mariah’s roof in Manhattan a couple of evenings prior and involved the hiding of a 17-carat diamond ring inside a candy ring pop.) They’ve been calling me Cinderella since I first started out, so, of course, being Cinderella… Most people would think, Okay, please! This doesn’t happen in real life.”

On keeping her and Nicks’ romantic involvement on the down low: “We really kept the whole relationship aspect of it quiet. Therefore, we didn’t really ‘date,’ you know what I mean? Because that would have been not quiet or private. I think we didn’t want to give people a chance to be like, ‘What are you doing? What are you talking about? This is so quick… are you sure?”

On her racial ambiguity naturally attracting her to Barack Obama as a presidential candidate: “I can relate a lot to so many of the stories he tells. Clearly I am not the political analyst of the ages, but this is something that hits me on a deeper level than anything I’ve ever experienced growing up… I would be honored if he wanted me to be involved in any way. Right now I’m kind of watching from the sidelines.”

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Aleksandra @ 07/08/2008 at 4:21 pm

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First!

That is one ugly cover…and I actually like Mariah and her music.

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Ekaterina @ 07/08/2008 at 4:24 pm

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Holy, photoshop, batman! That is NOT her natural waist. Talk about a blatant lie. And they wonder why girls in this country have body image issues?

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Her head and body pose don’t seem to match.

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Hidden in a candy ring? Now, that is soooooo Mariah. maybe she really found her true match after all. Best wishes to the happy couple!

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i love Mariah but that is not a very nice picture of her…

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photoshop….
this girl is delusional…anyone knows, who is married, things get REAL…with money and without. Get out of your fairytail girlfriend, Cinderella, you aint!!!!! the honeymoon stage only last for a while, and with the clout that she has, they have plenty of challenges ahead of them

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Her music can be uplifting thats what I like about it. She has a strong personality. Good Luck to Her in whatever she does. I will drink Pinot Grigio and sing her no.1s album.

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z+v=zanessa @ 07/08/2008 at 4:31 pm

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she is nasty!!!!!!!!

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God photoshop
The head is wrong, and the body is so not her
Awful cover!

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I wish her happiness. :)

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lol @ the fact that she thinks she’s cinderella
she’s totally out of her mind

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hot new man?!? puhleaze.. nick cannon looks like a little boy standing next to her

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why????

fire the person who did the cover!!

worst job ever

looks like they put her head on someelses body

PHOTO-SHOP

THIS IS WHY GIRLS HAVE EATING DISORDER

annie_luv @ 07/08/2008 at 4:49 pm

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Who ever did the airbrushing on this pic of her deserves an honorary award.She wishes she was that tin and perfect and Im so sick of seeing her in videos or everywhere else in skimpy tight dresses with that oh look at me Im so hot attitude of hers.Puke!

annie_luv @ 07/08/2008 at 4:49 pm

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Who ever did the airbrushing on this pic of her deserves an honorary award.She wishes she was that tin and perfect and Im so sick of seeing her in videos or everywhere else in skimpy tight dresses with that oh look at me Im so hot attitude of hers.Puke!

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whats up with magazine’s overdoing the photoshopping? that looks nothing like mariah especially the body which looks like it belongs to someone else

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And the photoshop award goes to…

What is up with all these freaky looking magazine covers lately? The kids in the computer lab have either lost their minds or are trying to get back at their employers for something. Sad.

The only good thing I can say about Miss Mariah is that getting married seems to have made her smarter, but only a little.

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What is with the “racial ambiguity”? I knew she was black when I first saw her. Same with Obama. She’s had plastic surgery to “whiten” her features more and is starting to morph from the black Kathy Lee Gifford to a Jackson! Half-breeds are never happy with having ANY black in them at all! If they could have it extracted from their DNA, they would!

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1st to all the haters I got news for you:Everybody male & female gets photo shopped not just Mariah!!!!!! I’ve seen Mariah in person & I have news for all you haters she actually looks better in person then in the magazines. I would like everyone that says shes ugly to post pictures of themselves on here & lets see who’s really ugly. I love the pic of her & Nick that they didn’t post on here. I hope for the best for them.
As for the Cinderella reference people have said since day 1 that she had a Cinderella type story I’m pretty sure she was half joking.

josh harenet @ 07/08/2008 at 6:51 pm

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they had the scan of the article at http://www.celebrityupsanddowns.com if you want to read it.

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Ummm…why is she trying to take off her head?

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mariah needs to sit down she getting old and photoshopped to the MAX

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ITS SO FAKE

PHOTOSHOP

I HATE WHORIAH

SHES AN OLD COW

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THEY SHRUNK HER IMMENSELY!!!

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EWWW looking like hooker as usual and a tacky one at that.

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