This is why I love Mariah Carey! Because she wears sh-t like this. Not only does she wear it, you know she picked it out. Because she thought that sh-t looked good on her! I can’t stop giggling. Anyway, this is Mariah performing in LA as part of her “Angels’ Advocate” tour. Note that the dress is actually a two-parter. At first, she was just wearing it as a ball gown. Then she dropped the lower part of the skirt to reveal that the dress was really a totally nightmarish ‘80s inspired cocktail dress. Oh, Mimi. You crazy bitch.
Mariah Carey may have admitted ‘gaining a few pounds’ since her marriage to Nick Cannon, but she clearly isn’t ashamed of her curvier physique. Performing at the latest stop on her Angels’ Advocate Tour in Los Angeles last night, Carey showed off her figure in all its glory in a figure-hugging gold dress.
The two-piece dress, which started as a billowing ball gown before a section was whipped off to reveal a ruffled mini, appeared slightly too small for her ample curves. Clearly feeling confident with her figure, Carey showed off her tanned legs in a pair of silver sequinned £775 pair of Christian Louboutin peep-toe heels as she performed with her troupe of hunky dancers at the Gibson Amphitheatre.
Carey descended on the stage sitting in a swing in the huge ballgown, before her dancers whipped off the skirt to reveal the mini underneath. The dress was a gold variation of an outfit she has worn at previous concerts, which have also been made in white and lilac.
Speaking last summer, she admitted her happy marriage to toyboy husband Nick Cannon, 29, had affected her waistline. She said: ‘I’m a curvy girl and switch around with my diets all the time.’
When she first started dating Nick in March 2008, she was slim and toned and weighed around 130lbs thanks to daily workout sessions in her swimming pool.
Mariah admitted last year she had put on ‘few pounds’, but said she planned to resume her fitness plan again. Writing on her Twitter micro-blogging page last month, Mariah denied reports she was pregnant: ‘If I gained a few pounds… My trainer’s back living with me.’
Despite her good intentions, her husband didn’t help things by buying her tons of sweets for Valentine’s Day. The romantic singer/actor appealed to his wife’s sweet tooth by plying her with Rice Krispie treats, gummi worms, Runts, and Now and Laters that he picked up from a special ‘sweet suite’ in New York’s Renaissance Hotel, which was filled with over 300lbs of sweets.
Carey’s 22-date North American tour kicked off in New York on New Year’s Eve and set to end in Las Vegas this weekend. When she completes her tour and completes her next album, Carey has hinted she may try and start a family with her husband.
He said recently: ‘We absolutely plan to have a family. But we gotta prioritize, because that’s a major, major priority. That’s like the only priority in life, when you think about it, is starting and raising a family. We want to make sure everything is out of the way and that we don’t have any distractions. We’re definitely moving toward [having children]. We got our house in LA, and we got a house [in New York], established and close to schools. So we take all of that stuff into consideration.’
[From The Daily Mail]
Part of the reason I like Mariah so much (beyond the fact that she’s a crazy and hilarious diva who refuses to even deign to sit on a couch without needing her entourage) is that she’s still convinced she looks fabulous even though she’s put on some very noticeable weight. And you know what? She still does look fabulous. True, she should choose better clothes for her expanding diva figure, but I think she still looks good.
Mariah Carey performing in LA on February 23, 2010. Credit: WENN.
I am beginning to think Mariah has those weird fun house mirrors that make everything look longer and thinner in her dressing room.
It’s like a Barbie dress. I swear I had a Barbie whose dress could be arranged to be a frilly short skirt or a big ballroom thing.
But I wouldn’t go so far as to say she picks this stuff because she thinks it looks good. I think she just likes it, on a personal level, so she rocks it even if it doesn’t suit her. I don’t think she’s hung up on what people think of her outfits… because they’ve been ragging on her clothes for about a decade now.
She makes me glad I am not a celebrity – at least I have friends who will tell me to my face if I look like something the cat dragged in.
Amazing voice, beautiful and healthy body. What a shame she mentally seems to be stuck in her teens (pink, butterflies, princess attitude, exposing too much flesh) and has a liquid hobby. If she grew up and fulfilled her artistic potential, she would be unstoppable.
If you want a chuckle, check out this hilarious spoof on her:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8C5n4Waxt8
I don’t know if it is the proportions of the images or what- but does her body look really short and wide with that dress-puff on? I am not calling her fat by any means, but that is REALLY not flattering!
whoa nelly.
After all these years, Mariah still has zero taste in clothes!! You would think, now that she’s past 40, she would try to dress her age, but there’s no stopping my favorite diva. I love the girl. Can’t help myself.
I remember several years ago, Andre Leon Talley of Vogue took her under his wing to try to improve her taste level but somehow it didn’t work. Of course, ALT also dressed Jennifer Hudson for the Oscars the year she won and people are still talking about the awful thing he put her in, so maybe Mariah has better taste than ALT!!
I don’t like her singing, nor how she dresses, and she definitely is not pretty. I guess the best thing she ever did was marry Nick Cannon because he worships her.
She’s bringing back 1987! That was the year I had the SAME DRESS, in black. And I looked smoking in it then, but darn it’s been out of my closet for 20 years now.
LOL!!!
A costume meant for obese ballerinas.
Homegirl is too many kinds of insane for me. I find all her rainbow butterfly kitten personae really, really annoying and demented. I would looooove to know what she sees in the mirror when she looks at herself! 😀
Three words: ABSENCE OF TASTE
I think that some people don’t know when to give up. They aren’t all that anymore, and they just cannot accept that fact. I guess it’s hard for them to accept that their getting older, and their youth has faded.
I’m not going to make any weight comments because honestly, she looks great and healthy. However, her clothing always seems a few sizes to small and constricting. I’m sure she would look just as fabulous if she wore something that didnt squeeze her boobs to death.
She needs a Tim Gunn intervention.
So where’s the cord? Her dress looks like some sort of roman blind/shade she can pull up or let down.
1989, bought similar dress at Macy’s to wear to a boyfriend’s law firm’s party in Philly. I was rockin’ black hair to my waist and had Spritz Forte holding my bangs up high. I was a size 6!!!!
Heifer!
OMG. Please stop this woman before she does it again!!
Is she hoping to relive her glory days? Yikes.
What is the age cut-off for her personality? Twelve?
I really wish some of Mariah’s and for that matter, JLo’s handlers would tell them that you can look youthful without looking childish. Plenty of outfits for women who still look young for their age, they don’t have to dress like they’re still 25.
This looks exactly like my Grade 12 grad dress!!! Only problem, my grad was in ’88!!!
Like JLo, she could look good if she dressed appropriately. For example, a woman who is size 10 can look smoking hot – but NOT if she tries to squeeze into a size 2 dress. A 40-year old woman can look fantastic – but if she dresses like a 19-year old, she will only look ridiculous.
But, I guess money can’t buy taste.
princess pea, I think I had the same Barbie dress, or something like it!
Mariah is so frustrating. If she would stop buying stuff 2 sizes too small and dress like an adult, I think she’d look great.
Kind of looks like a prom dress I had in 1989. I didn’t fill out the top quite like that though. When my kids look at the pictures, they get big laughs. What was I thinking? Now Mariah wears it and I guess I did look like a FOOL!!!!!!!!
her delusional self-image is AWESOME!
she’s gonna be one of THOSE old broads…YOU KNOW THE ONES.
hahahahah
My grandmother use to crochet dolls like this for the back of the toilet. Yes it covered the toilet paper ROLL. No pun intended. Im a lier, it was really intended
Does the woman own any mirrors in any of her houses?
I think physically she looks good. But that dress… Actually, all her clothes, just… Urgh. She really needs someone to bitch slap her out of her Disney princess mentality. I mean, I love Disney princesses, but a 40 something dressing as one? I’ll pass.
I like her happy fat. I just feel I see her cleavage way too much. The gold dress? Ahhh who cares, you only live once.
Does she own any garment that doesn’t make it look like the tittays are trying to escape?
I dont like to comment on peoples looks but jeez that dress is shocking.
She is a beautiful woman why does she keep trying to look like a 12 year old?
I get that she can sing (save that screechy thing she does) but the fact that you all seem to hold her in such high regard must be some sign of the Apocalypse.
She’s an obnoxious, spoiled, obnoxious, tasteless, obnoxious, overrated, obnoxious excuse of a human being.
Have I mentioned I find her obnoxious? And the fact that the world kisses her fat ass and thinks her obnoxiousness is ‘cute’ makes her even that much more obnoxious.
To me she always looks fat. Not because she truly is, but because she stuffs herself into clothes four sizes too small.
That’s hilarious. But the prize for worst stage outfits still goes to Beyonce. Some of her costumes made her look like she was giving birth to a robot.
The dress is so ’80s, but the funny thing is that she dressed so much classier back then.
@squirrel: I think “the liquid hobby” is affecting her eyesight based on the gold “little miss perfect” pagent dress.
Me thinks somebody needs an intervention…
I think Ms Mariah should just wear whatever the hell she wants to wear…..yup it looks 80’s but oh well. She is a law unto herself… LOL
I think she’s awesome. If you can’t wear crazy s*** like this on stage, when can you? Girl has a sparkly diva reputation and lives up to it. Confess, you’d be so disappointed if she turned up in a tasteful black sheath dress. BORING.
It’s time to call Stacy London and Clinton Kelly of “What Not To Wear”!!
This one is hilarious squared….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLEh9qjZyQ&feature=related
Sad thing is, I’ve seen her look much worse.
princess pea, I loved that barbie dress!
Well, they brought back leg warmers and neon…maybe she thinks she’s getting ahead of the retro 80s trend? She doesn’t look bad, just dated.
Girls with ugly faces always have their boobs popping out. Susan Sarandon does same thing. Ugh put them back they are gross looking!
Haha I agree with the first paragraph. You just know she picked them out. Her style never progressed beyond 1995.
Hey, I think I wore that same dress to my senior prom in ’95!
headlines like this are exactly why i read websites like this…. :))))) thank you!
You can’t blame her. Everybody loves Forever 21.
She looks like a linebacker in a tutu. Nick, why you let her go out the door like that?
horrible dress:-)
She has always dressed bad with soo much money she could afford a stylist .tacky jus hot mess mimi