MAG SWAG: MARIAH CAREY COVERS UK’S OBSERVER WOMAN MAGAZINE

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UK’s Observer Woman Magazine managed to snag diva Mariah Carey for its January 2010 issue. In this issue, the songstress discusses her breakout role as a social worker in the Lee Daniels directed film “Precious”, her insecurities and racism.

Check out these interesting excerpts…

“I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race [Carey's mother is Irish-American and her father was an African-American of Venezuelan descent]. It’s not so weird now, and everyone’s accepting it in a big way, but as a child I felt very, um, out of place and didn’t feel pretty. So taking on that character and having Lee make me older in the way he did, I guess it was freeing because I didn’t have to try in any way to look pretty, and you know, when you grow up with that type of insecurity you don’t always feel pretty.” It is an unexpectedly raw answer. Does she feel pretty now? “Sometimes I feel all right.”

Does she still experience racism? “Yes. It’ll be a mild thing that I’ll get over, but a friend said to me the other day: ‘Oh yeah, you’ll like her –she’s like you, she’s got a black husband’ And I’m like: ‘How many times do I have to tell you – my father was black. My mother’s white. In this country that makes you black, do you understand? I know I’m very light-skinned, but stop doing that!’ It’s one of those things that the world doesn’t quite understand. When I first came to Europe, everybody was asking me: ‘Why do you always have black people in your music videos?’ And I was like, errm, how do I answer this one?”

I just don’t understand why everyone is raving about her role in “Precious”, homegirl was in the movie for like five minutes. #Imjustsayin

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