Like, do you realize how expensive those legs are?
In high school, Mariah's nickname was "Mirage" because she often cut class.
This was a concern for her guidance counselor John Garvey. He encouraged a young Carey to pursue her singing career but also to obtain some marketable skill. In Marc Shapiro's unauthorized biography, he quotes Garvey: "You could talk to her until you were blue in the face, and it didn't do any good. When you talked to her about it, she'd let you know it wasn't that important in her life because she was going to be a rock star." To which Carey responds, "I don't blame them for trying to encourage me to do better scholastically because they never saw me sing."
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She was named after the song, "They Call the Wind Mariah" from the musical Paint Your Wagon.
It has been mythologized that Carey's mother sensed greatness in her daughter from birth, hence the strong, theatrical name.
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Her godmother is R&B icon Patti LaBelle.
And there a lot of perks! According to Aol TV the singer appeared on The Wendy Williams Show and said, "She sends me four bottles of Cristal and she sends me beautiful white flowers, like 100 or 200 flowers. It's just beautiful."
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Before making it as a singer, Carey studied cosmetology in New York City.
According to Biography.com, immediately after gradutating Harborfields High School in Greenlaw, New York. Mariah moved to New York City where she worked as a waitress and a coat check girl — most notably she studied cosmetology. All the while Carey was writing songs and pursuing her dream, largely at night.
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