{"id":26705,"date":"2019-07-09T07:38:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1055353"},"modified":"2019-07-09T07:38:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T13:38:42","slug":"why-mariah-carey-considers-herself-kind-of-a-prude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/why-mariah-carey-considers-herself-kind-of-a-prude\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Mariah Carey Considers Herself &#8220;Kind of a Prude&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201941\/rs_1024x759-190501190701-1024-mariah-carey-billboard-music-awards.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Mariah Carey, 2019 Billboard Music Award, Show\" alt=\"Mariah Carey, 2019 Billboard Music Award, Show\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for dcp<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.212215320911\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"23.654244306418\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mariah_carey\">Mariah Carey<\/a><\/strong> is getting candid, dahling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/celebs\/a28137694\/mariah-carey-profile-cover-cosmo-interview-sex-shade-memes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cosmopolitan<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s August 2019 cover star, the iconic songstress got to talking all matters of her very famous life, including the men in it. As fans well know, she was married to music executive&nbsp;<strong>Tommy Mottola<\/strong>, who had signed her to Columbia Records at the start of her career. However, their separation was announced just shy of four years later in 1997.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You might want to picture a child bride,&#8221; she told the magazine. &#8220;There was a conscious effort to keep me as this all-American, whatever that means, girl. It was very controlled. There was no freedom for me as a human being. It was almost like being a prisoner.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mottola later&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/news\/1537498\/tommy-mottola-on-relationship-with-mariah-carey-absolutely-wrong-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">addressed their relationship<\/a> in his memoir,&nbsp;&nbsp;writing it was &#8220;absolutely wrong and inappropriate&#8221; to become involved with the star and apologizing &#8220;for any discomfort or pain that all of my good intentions inevitably caused her.&#8221; He also called her past descriptions of him &#8220;untrue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.946808510638\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"6.6474164133739\">\n<p>Carey later married&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/nick_cannon\">Nick Cannon<\/a><\/strong>, with whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/239514\/mariah-carey-and-nick-cannon-welcome-twins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she welcomed now<\/a>-8-year-old twins,&nbsp;<strong>Moroccan&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Monroe<\/strong>. A year after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/585824\/nick-cannon-files-for-divorce-from-mariah-carey-after-6-years-of-marriage-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cannon filed for divorce<\/a>, the songstress <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/731548\/mariah-carey-and-james-packer-are-engaged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was engaged<\/a> to Australian billionaire&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/james_packer\">James Packer<\/a><\/strong>, though they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/805135\/mariah-carey-and-james-packer-break-up-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">broke it off<\/a> less than a year later. The Grammy winner has since been dating backup dancer&nbsp;<strong>Bryan Tanaka<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>While she&#8217;s dating a younger man, Carey maintained to the magazine,&nbsp;&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had that many, but there has been a variety pack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And, despite all the headlines sparked by her love life, Mimi candidly told&nbsp;<em>Cosmo<\/em>, &#8220;I&#8217;ve only been with five people in my life, so I&#8217;m kind of a prude, honestly, compared to most others in the field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1055353\/why-mariah-carey-considers-herself-kind-of-a-prude?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Winter\/Getty Images for dcp Mariah Carey is getting candid, dahling.&nbsp; As Cosmopolitan&#8216;s August 2019 cover star, the iconic songstress got to talking all matters of her very famous life, including the men in it. As fans well know, she was married to music executive&nbsp;Tommy Mottola, who had signed her to Columbia Records at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-12 11:08:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}