Will you think less of me if I admit some dark, dirty secret? Here’s my secret: I’ve never paid for a massage. I’ve gotten amateur massages, of course, and some of them were very good. But as I get older, I swear, I really don’t like when strangers touch me (as opposed to my youth, when I let strangers touch me all the time… which I meant as a joke, but came across as creepy). So, I’ve never really had the need to buy myself a massage or anything. I have some back pain from my big boobs, but I’m still not going to pay for a massage. What’s my point? It’s completely bizarre to me that someone would pay for an eight-hour massage. But that’s exactly what Mariah Carey did.
Ambien? A white-noise machine? That’s kid stuff for a sleepy Mariah Carey.
The American Idol diva arranged an eight-hour rub-down while she got shut-eye at her L.A. mansion September 29.
“The masseuse made $1,500,” a source tells Us Weekly. On top of that, Carey had a seriously kooky request.
“She insisted [Sacha Baron Cohen’s] Bruno play on repeat,” the insider adds. “It looped the entire time!”
Carey’s elaborate massage may have been necessary in order to relieve the tension she’s built up dealing with Nicki Minaj on the set of American Idol. The two women are embroiled in an ongoing feud after Minaj launched into a profane taped rant against the Grammy winner during auditions in Charlotte, N.C.
Still, an insider tells Us show execs “love the drama. They feel like they’ve struck gold.”
For the love of God! Who wants to be rubbed WHILE you sleep? You should want to be awake to enjoy it. And if you’re asleep, who’s to say that the masseur didn’t just stop when he heard Mariah snoring? And notice that they just it’s one masseur – wouldn’t they have hand cramps after a few hours? Yeah. Mariah didn’t get an eight-hour massage. She PAID for an eight-hour massage. As for the Bruno thing… that’s just weird. I do love that Mariah has a new excuse for acting like a temperamental diva, though: it’s all Minaj’s fault! Everything!
Oh, and Star Mag’s cover story this week is “Hollywood Housekeepers Tell All” or something. Jezebel says that there’s something devoted to Mariah’s insanity: “Mariah Carey’s ‘glam squad’ once dressed her and did her makeup while she was passed out drunk on the bathroom floor.” Are we sure they’re not talking about Christina Aguilera? Because that sounds so much more like Aguilera.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Its no secret mariah is a HUGE diva, but this is actually disgusting. I love my messages too, but while your sleeping…for 8 hours….sit down mariah
One person did not massage for 8 straight hours, no way, but getting a massage whilst sleeping is still going to do wonders for her body. My dad’s a massage therapist and I’m a big champion for how much good a proper massage can do for you. He often gets his clients falling asleep on the table, and it’s a fairly popular thing to have therapists come over to massage a person off to sleep. I think you’d want to make sure you knew who you were hiring, and probably have cameras set up too, but I’m actually on board with this. If I had the money, I’d be diva-ing it up massage-styles too!
Maybe she had a team or they alternated. And $1500 for 8 hours doesn’t seem like a lot to me. That’s very much a custom order and not something a therapist could do all the time.
I’m thinking a couple at least and they alternated. Some therapists may be devoted to the night time massages. Especially in the parts of the world where the Beautiful People can afford it. I’d pay that much and get it done regularly if I could afford it, even if I do hate people watching me sleep.
Oh yes, I’d do this in a minute too! I’m a firm believer in the benefits of massage too. I wish I could have one every other day. If everyone had a massage a week I swear there would be world peace in a very short while.
Sometimes I’ve fallen asleep while being massaged. Tiredness and exhaustion are the usual reasons. Those are just amateur massages by the way, which takes less than 2 hours.
8 hours is just overkill. Plus, how can Mariah be sure that the masseuse was doing his/her job for 8 hours straight? The masseuse’s hands would have been numb by then.
Don’t know about the 8 hours, it would be too hard on the therapist. That being said I’ve done 2 hours many times and fight sleep every time, once in a while I surrender and off to dream land I go, the very, very, very best rest ever! If I had her dough? Oh yeah beat believe I’d do it as often as possible!
The masseuse got paid pretty well, and honestly if i was 45 with twins id probably take my butt to sleep with someone rubbing my back too. In fact that’s sounds pretty damn nice.
Her smile looks so pretty… she is so hot in this pic..
I love a good DIVA story. Can’t be outraged or even judgemental about it. At the end of the day, if they ask (demand) and someone is willing to indulge them in their whimsy, then it’s really not their fault. If no one indulged them, even if they are getting paid for it, then they wouldn’t be or ask for these diva things.
The more outrageous the better, I say, if they can get it!!
What’s the point of claiming one is a diva but then is unfailingly conventional, polite blah,blah,blah!!
Id loveee to be massaged to sleep. Then again I’m 39 wks pregnant and up 40lbs. My back is killing me….
8hrs is extreme, but I’d take 2hrs easily!
I got massages while heavily pregnant and it did wonders for my poor back!
You can find a masseuse who is specialize in pregnant women and they have special massage beds with a “space” where the belly goes. Just to be able to lie down on your belly after months of not being able to feels great on its own!
I’ve fallen asleep in pretty much every massage I’ve ever had. I have horrible knots in my shoulders, so I love a massage.
And there is no way 1 therapist worked on the same person for 8 hours straight. They need breaks or else their hands cramp up. She had to have had at least 2 or 3 people.
I doubt this is actually true that one LMT did a massage for 8 hrs straight physically impossibe, also while 1500 $ sounds like a lot when you break it down hourly I don’t think it’s worth it to the therapist considering the risk of injury and the fact that they probably wouldn’t be able to work for several days afterwards. Maybe 2 people switched off.
Yes Mimi!!!!!
I surprised it wasn’t a massage with diamonds & other such nonsense
Jeez, everyone knows diamond dust is too skritchy!
I have major sleep issues like i sleep only 3 hours every night i have been in tears in the morning from being so tired, i have gotten 2 new mattresses in the last 2 years, i have been on lunesta, ambien ( which sorta just knocks u out but u don’t wake up feeling rested, not to mention the side effects) so honestly at this point if i could afford it, i would do this if only for one night of 8 hours of sleep.
I cant snark on her for this, if I had her money Id have at least one a day. Dont see the point of 8 hrs but hey, she’s mariah.
meh, she’s probably easier to deal with asleep
It’s probably the only time she’s not fully spanxed.
This story kinda reminds me of the MTV Cribs skit Dave Chappelle did on his show when he was so rich he was cooking up dinosaur eggs and sprinking real diamonds on them. Madness.
“Come on in you broke mf!”
http://youtu.be/yDPcwk69lEA
Oh my gosh, that sounds awesome. If I ever turn rich that is the first thing I’m going to do. Well, after helping people and animals and such.
As a massage therapist, I sincerely doubt this story for a couple reasons. First of all, there is no way that one therapist could do a massage for eight hours straight. Secondly, when done properly, massage encourages our bodies to release toxins. Unless it was one of those little baby, just tickle my back with the tips of your fingers massage (I swear, that’s what my kidlets call it!), or a soft rubdown with unicorn fur, she would have probably felt like worked-over shit the next day!!
I’ve been a massage therapist for 25 years, and its physically impossible to massage the same person for 8 hours. My hands and back would be so sore, I wouldn’t be able to work again for a while. On top of that, Mariah would feel like total crap for a few days afterwards. If you massage a muscle too much, you actually can cause inflammation and pain. This story cannot be true, unless the therapist took really long breaks! I heard that Matthew Mcconnaughey smokes a doobie and gets a 4 hour massage. I bought that one, but 8 hours….no way.
I don’t think this is true, but if it was, go Mariah!
I happen to have twins and if I had gazillions maybe I would go a bit cooky, and do that, too.
Mariah has incredible talent and has been through crap with her guys before Nick. Add twins at over 40- I say, let her get whatever she wants.
what Jennifer said I am dazzled that people able to profit $4075 in four weeks on the internet. have you seen this link Buck6.c o m
I think the WAY weirder part of this story is that she looped BRUNO while she slept and got a massage… BRUNO! That movie about a gay Austrian hairdresser (I think.. I never saw it)?! It doesn’t seem like the most relaxing thing…..
bruno. HA!