Mariah Carey: ‘I have always had low self-esteem’
In an interview with PageSix, Mariah Carey recently opened up about her struggles with low self-esteem.
In an interview with PageSix, Mariah Carey recently opened up about her struggles with low self-esteem.
“I just feel like I am a regular human being and I deserve the same respect as anybody else. I have always had low self-esteem, and people do not recognize that,” she explained in the interview on Saturday, adding, “I can’t measure what type of respect I deserve — I really can’t.”
She explained that her struggles with self-image started young, especially because she came from a biracial family.
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“Growing up different, being biracial, having the whole thing where I did not know if I fit in . . . That is why music became such a big part of my life, because it helped me overcome those issues,” she recalled. “Sometimes it is hard to let your guard down.”
Because of her struggles, she said, she had a hard time knowing when people were being genuine with her.
“I do think to myself, ‘Did they mean this? Or do they not really mean it?’ And that is with everybody — it is not just with three people or just one,” she recalled.
She also spoke about what life was like as a struggling artist before she became famous: “I remember it not being easy getting a record deal. Making demos in the middle of the night, sleeping on the floor in the studio, being broke with no food. My go-to meal was [Newman’s Own] sauce. Me and my friend would split the pasta and sauce for, like, a week. Or it was, like, a bagel and iced tea… The guy would give it to me at the deli for free.”
