Mariah Carey covers VIBE Magazine’s June 2008 issue, which hits newsstands this week. The singer who has been in the media a lot this week due to those crazy-ass Nick Cannon rumors, heats up the pages of the magazine’s summer issue as she models some of the season’s hottest swimwear revealing her recent weight loss.
The cover was shot on-location on Eagle’s Landing, a private Caribbean island off the coast of Antigua where VIBE joined Carey for her 38th birthday celebration. In the magazine, writer Shanel Odum wrote a journal narrating her encounter with the singer.
Odum provides an hour-by-hour account of the day’s events:
2PM: Mariah Carey’s $12,500-a night villa on the 300-acre tropical island is alive and almost antsy…A gang of hairstylists, fashion assistants, photographers, and makeup artists race around the open-air bungalow, each on their own mission to please.
5PM: The 5-foot-9 mirage prances past the overly attentive pack and heads towards a rickety boardwalk, which instantly transforms into her runway. A magenta silk robe whips against those endless, copper legs; black Christian Louboutin heels stab the sand; a wild halo of corkscrew curls flies.
7:30PM: Mariah Carey’s 38th birthday banquet is a Sweet 16 dream…Beckoning palms welcome guests to the entrance of the veranda…The scene inside is a strawberry-frosted pubescent fantasy: purple, pink, and white balloons dance in the balmy Caribbean breeze…And then Mariah’s posse begins to appear. Longtime confidante Shawntae “Da Brat” Harris breezes past…Recent acquaintance/music video director (“Bye Bye”) Nick Cannon grabs his laptop and goes to the buffet to fix a plate…Fuchsia feather boas drip from arms of every chair…Kitschy gold crowns, tiaras, and noisemakers adorn each place setting…As her guests fawn, Mariah drifts from friend to friend, beaming and blowing kisses.
Bitch please…..
lLOVE HER MUSIC, BUT IT’S SOMETHING
ABOUT HER THAT I DON’T LIKE. cAN’T
PUT MY FINGER ON IT. CAN”T HATE, THE
GIRL LOOKS GOOD.
I want to say thanx to Concrete Loop for not posting those Nick Cannon rumors. Everyone knows that shit is a publicity stunt. She goes out with some Record Exec, I saw them hugged up a couple weeks ago in NYC!!
She is beautiful! If her and Nick are married, CONGRATS!!!!
PHOTOSHOPPED!
#1 took the words right out of my mouth. Is this really necessary?
Mariah looks great! Her album is #1 again two weeks in a row.
It’s time for the green eyed monster to do it’s work. hint hint #1 lol
Magazine Pictures Airbrused…..
She looks good to be 38 but she needs to dress less like trailer trash….
I love her music though…. Has anybody ever seen her in something that didnt show all her legs or all her boobs… Im just curious… Maybe I havent seen enough pictures of her or something.
Vibe covers are looking more cheaper by the day. They need to ease up on the photo shopping ( ya’ll know Mariah aint that little in the waist and hips) I think it sends a wrong message to some of the young girls who look up to these stars the wrongs message. I have been talking to several young girls who say body image is the most important thing to them. smh
I love Mariah as an artist, but I don’t think this album is going to compare in anyway to the last one. “Touch my body” is not a good song to showcase an album on.
Nariah ass gets on my nerves that pic is so photoshop it is a shame.
I used to be a huge fan of hers but now she irks me.
lOVE Mariah but she needs a new stylist…why do her people let her dumb down her talent by showing her body everychance she gets..it is ridiculous
DJ MUTHA
Thats my girl…go ahead and live your life, you spent countless years sheltered by your sugar daddy and now u wanna live…i feel you!
As long as you make sure you continue to give us good music and a sista will be fine with you.
OK I GOT IT MS. MIMI IS SO FULL
OF HERSELF.
Celebrities and their publicity stunts, I tell ya…
Who is making sure that Mariah is getting her medicine and the proper dosage on time? They need to be fired asap
Nick Cannon is brave for marrying MC knowing her big brother is Da Brat. I don’t care how fine a girl is but if she got a brother like that I’m not going near her. Treat her right otherwise Da Brat will pop bottles over your head
I’m sure the wedding was beautiful…instead of throwing rice they probably threw glitter and butterfly barrettes
Great voice but the new music is whack!!!! And I mean it’s really high time you put on some clothes and just stopped acting all medicated. Sheesh!!!!! The whole Mimi needs her Cabbage Patch doll thing is tired with you crazy tail. Sit yourself down somewhere and act like a grown up, sing some grown up songs(not to be confused with sexual bullcrap songs), write your memoirs or something (please do not use crayons)… I am too tired of this looney trollup.
lol @ #1. I think you said it best.
Ok, if Mariah and Nick are married, I’m married to Will Smith- he just dont know it yet – sorry Jada. Anyway, as much as I love Mariah and her music, I think she’s mentally deranged. She’s 38, but always acting and dressing like she’s a teenager. Wearing those super short shorts and skirts is not cute for a woman her age. She needs to dress to age- be more classy.
oh for real?!
HELLA AIRBRUSHED!!!! Photoshop beotches!
HATERZ
Crying laughing at #15!
I love Mariah, but this PIC is soooooo airbrushed. It looks like her head on someone else’s body. Word!
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee erksssssssssssssssssssssssssss meeeeeeeeeeeeee goooooooooooo awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy fcuckind dum butter flying asssssssss
@14 JLewis – You are hilarious. LOL at the butterfly barrettes. I swear Mariah stay doped up on something. She always try to act innocent with all them butterfly accessories and what not. Maybe 10 years ago that image would fly- but she has worn that image out and need to act her age.
Since Da Brat’s career has been a wrap, maybe she should consider working for Mariah as a bodyguard or become a woman wrestler or bouncer- since she’s so good at busting people upside their heads.
J.Lewis u are mess glitter and butterfly barrettes lmao.
She looks good on the cover, no doubt BUT she is not the sexiest singer alive.
That is an airbrush disaster of a cover. Her head and her body look really juxtaposed in a horrible way.
Mariah lost alot of weight so i’m sure that is her true size. If you have seen her red carpet pics then you would know and not assume. As far as this pic, it’s not much different from alot of other female celebs who hop on the cover of a mag with skimpy clothes on, give Mimi a break and quit the hate.
Is this a Seventeen magazine Cover or what? She looks gorgeous for her age, but please people what is her age?! Touch her body…….NOT! And let me see y’all talk stuff about her photoshopped behind, like y’all just new Toccara was photoshopped!
@ #1 I agree LMAO!!!
I really wondering if this whole wedding rumor is a part of Ashton Kutcher’s new show. What’s it called? Pop Fiction or something?
Mariah looks great. Sure she was probably airbrushed, but I agree with #28; that’s her true size. She really has lost a lot of weight and is doing a great job keeping it off.
It’s funny how a post about her covering a magazine led to comments about her sanity, her image and her “marriage.” But what’s really funny is the fact that the very same people who came here to bash her and her mental state, can barely spell (#15, #23), conjugate (#9, #24), or punctuate (#8).
Please keep the negativity to yourself. It only breeds more.
Lol @ # 14. U got me crackin up cuz I can picture ppl throwing glitter and butterfly barettes at this chicks wedding. I just can’t get w/ Mariah Carey anymore. I’m tired of watching her perform cuz that shit is boring. I’m tired of seeing her videos: slow motion w/ her hair bouncing up and down w/ some tight as dress on then she runs her fingers (w/ that butterfly ring) through her hair. She is very talented but she’s grown and she should act like it. She reminds me of Barbie for some reason.
Please… who doesnt get photoshopped for a magazine cover, Hateratia Jenkins?!!
She looks great on that cover.
I like her voice…love her older music. I just can’t take her belting “youuuutube” seriously.
But she really needs to act & dress her age & stop running around town like a $5 Coke whore.
Mariah should really be mad that the word “kitschy” was used to describe her decorations…because it’s exceedingly becoming to go-to qualifier when discussing Mariah.
the*
…I am SO FUCKING tired of Mariah…!!!!!!!
“Touched up Body” instead of touch my body. I’m such a clown sometimes.lol. She probably has the most touched up photos ever. between her or janet.
They showed the rerun of Mariah on SNL saturday nite, I missed it the first time, but I
..Why is she always half naked these days. Maybe, the vocals are fading…Hmm…
enjoyed Mariah’s performances especially the end of Touch My Body with her grinding with the the guys in back and in front of her. That was cute.
WOW! She looks GREAT!!!
Shut the fuck up y’all, Tina Turner was showing her body at her sixties. So y’all better leave Mimi alone!
People why does it bother your asses that the pic is airbrushed?
When Beyonce pic is airbrushed she is beautiful, get off Mimi case people, keep doing your thing.
That’s the thing, I don’t HATE Mariah. When David Foster was writing her ballads, and she had people managing her career that would not allow her to run around talking like Dora the Explorer, she was great!. I just kinda wish we didn’t know so much about her. I feel like I’ve seen all there is to see of this chick aside from her last pap smear.
Less is more.
Royalty. Tina does it gracefully & tastefully.
You can be sexy, yet tasteful at the same time. Mariah always teeters on that line.
Looking like she shops at Cheap Hos R Us. It’s old & tired.
She needs to act her age & stop walking around like a Treasure Troll on treasure island acting like she farts rainbows & pixie dust.
BTW, as far as spelling goes, my keys stick sometimes…. (so what’s her excuse?) See I’m not even going there. You know she seems crazy in public, defend it if you want to. If it was your aunt Cookie running around in Belly shirts skipping to the corner store for Skittles at close to 40, you would be calling for an intervention. Tell the truth and stop the madness.
#47
Actually, more than that Tina and Mariah are different in that Tina actually looks like a GROWN, SENSIBLE sexy woman, whereas Mariah comes across as some prepubescent slut. I think it’s repulsive to women because it offends our feminist sensibilities: a grown woman who is in the public eye and yet also bathed in pink butterflies…well, that’s lame on a whole other level. If she were to leave her 14 year old Long Island slut at the door, everyone would except the barely there dresses and sky-high platform mules without complaint…
TOUCH UP MY BODY.
PHOTOSHOP!
ERASE MY WRINKLES.
DELETE MY CELULITE.
TOUCH UP MY BODY.
GET ME ALL SMOOTH.
MAKE ME LOOK YOUNG.
TOUCH UP MY BODY.
JUST KIDDING!!!
OK, I’m gonna say this and leave it alone. No one is asking her not to wear bikinis… She looks great. I am simply saying that her image (that of an adult in the midst of a major identity crisis) is wearing thin. After 13 years, even Raven had to grow up. Bikinis in themselves are fine on her, just not everywhere she goes. And the person who said they can’t take her crooning “yoootuuube” seriously was right on point. Can you really be serious? YOOOOTUUUUBE…. really? C’mon. Would you buy it if Halle Berry started playing teen roles again? Same concept. And if it’s that personal to you, ok, I won’t crack on Mimi anymore. I’ll just talk in babytalk and gibberish so it’s not offensive. Yes I will, honey bunny, yes I will.
She could of did this like ten years ago and not ten years later.
@ # 32. MrD
What did I miss spell? I know I was in a hurry, but I did go back and re-read my comment and I didn’t see where I miss-spelled anything can you please tell me?
@#53
Ironically, you misspelled “misspell” lol j/k…you did, though…
Mariah is WAAYYYY sexier than Tina Turner. Tina was wearing skimpy clothes at her sixties & pls dont give me that crap about how she was classy and graceful, people were saying the very same thing about Tina.
Don’t Hate.
Appreciate…….
She’s a good singer, a great writer, and a Very Pretty Girl.
I would have never gussed she was Thirty Eight…
She looks like she’s 25.
Work it bitch!
@ 54. Buffy
Thank You
correction: “misspelled”
It’s been a long night finals are coming up. lol
Wish the world “hater” would go away…so elementary
I like Mariah more when she first came out, seem like her voice was better.
Who cares if her and Nick are married..it’s just a PR stunt
Why am I more interested in the Irv Gotti article than Mariah article. lol
Let me go in my campus bookstore and see if this has come in yet.