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They don’t call Mariah Carey a diva for nothing! The songbird lived up to her high-maintenance reputation this weekend when she performed at the Borgata in Altantic City. Reportedly Mimi put on quite a show backstage as well. Mrs. Nick Cannon had stagehands bring out a chaise, retouch her hair and makeup and even pour her a glass of bubbly - all in front of the soldout crowd.

But Mariah isn’t ashamed - she owns her divalicious behavior! “Do they expect me to stand up for the whole show? They call me a diva…because I am,” she said. Besides the constant primping, Mariah also reportedly had “a ton of requests” for her hotel suite and needed ten carts to carry in all of her luggage! [Source: NYDN; Photo: Getty Images]

She may have had a total bust with Glitter, but Mariah Carey is taking on the movie world again, and doing a great job. Mrs. Nick Cannon was awarded the Palm Springs Film Festival Breakthrough Performance Award for her role in Precious. The award will be presented January 5th at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Mariah is in great company - other recipients include Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Hudson, Felicity Huffman, and Freida Pinto. Congrats! [Source: Variety; Photo: Getty Images]

Mariah Carey has publicly expressed her dislike of Jennifer Lopez, but is there another diva who rubs Mrs. Nick Cannon the wrong way? According to the New York Post, Mariah and Rihanna, “refused to talk or be photographed together at a Halloween bash” and “worked hard to upstage each other at Carey’s party at M2 Ultralounge.”

Riri, dressed as a tiger, reportedly stayed with her pals, including singer Ne-Yo, in a booth and wouldn’t cross the dance floor to pay her respects. Meanwhile, Mariah stayed in her VIP area with hubby Nick Cannon, and when she had to use the ladies room, security had to clear a path so no one would damage her giant angel wings. According to Mariah’s rep, however, the whole story is fabricated. “There were 1,000 people there and, of course, she needed security. She heard a rumor that Rihanna was there but she never saw her. She loves Rihanna and of course would have said hello.” So what do you think? All made up or do these divas have real beef with each other? [Source: New York Post; Photo: Getty Images]

Although they’re not expecting a little one any time soon, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon are already getting ready to start a family.

“We had our first year and enjoyed it. This year for us is about establishing everything and creating a household. So, when we do welcome a child, it will be in a very comfortable, established home. So we are working on that once this year calms down, then we’ll probably start talking about it more seriously. That’s a priority, and it’s not just a quick decision,” Nick says.

“I want to be a father and that’s all about love,” he adds. “That’s the main thing to get right and at the end of the day it’s just about smothering my children with love.”

As for what kind of papa he’ll be, Nick says, “I will probably be the fun dad because I’m silly. I’m always trying to have a good time and always doing funny and stupid stuff.” [Source: People; Photo: Getty Images]

Although she had canceled her scheduled appearance at Nikki Beach following the Cannes premiere of her film, Precious, Mariah Carey decided to make a late and brief appearance to the afterparty for her film on Saturday night. After guests had finished dinner, which started at 9 pm, Mariah and hubby Nick Cannon waltzed in at about 11:30pm and gave a full fledged PDA fest for the partygoers.

“They were all over each other - just looked really in love,” a source tells The  FABlife.

Although the divalicious singer and her husband only stayed twenty minutes, partygoers didn’t consider it a diva move.

“She looked really tired from the premiere and doing press all day. Everyone was just pleased she showed up,” the source reveals.

Indeed, this glamazon had places to go and people to see, and one of those was Roberto Cavalli. Mariah and Nick headed over to his yacht for another glamorous soiree after chatting with guests and shaking hands. [Photos: Getty Images]

It’s usually everyone else waiting on Mariah Carey, so who could possibly make the diva wait for over an hour, holed up in her hotel room until his arrival? Not hubby Nick Cannon, but director Lee Daniels, who reportedly kept the songstress waiting for a screening of her movie Precious at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend when he showed up an hour late.

Reports claim the singer/actress waited at her posh room at the Hotel Martinez until Lee arrived, which made her extremely late to walk the red carpet.

“Can you imagine Mariah waiting for anyone?” a source asked, who continued, “Both Mariah and (co-star) Lenny Kravitz were pissed off. They thought it was disrespectful.” [Photo: Getty Images]

Clad in purple, Mariah Carey arrives at the Nice airport sans hubby Nick Cannon, who recently took to his blog to defend his wife against insults made by her rumored former lover Eminem. Mariah is in town to join co-stars such as Lenny Kravitz at the Palais de Festivals at the Cannes Film Festival today for her film Precious, in which Mariah plays a social worker trying to help an illiterate New York teenager who is pregnant with her father’s baby. Precious is a contender in the Un Certain Regard competition, which recognizes unusual and original films. [Photo: Getty Images]

Mariah Carey busted onto the music scene in 1990 with her debut album Mariah, and quickly became a Grammy-winning sensation who churned out hit after hit and monopolized the Billboard charts. It seemed she could do no wrong - until she starred in the semi-autobiographical joke of a film, 2001’s Glitter. As a promotional stunt for movie, Mariah infamously (and oddly) stripped down and slurred her way through passing out popsicles on MTV’s TRL. The pressures of the fame machine led to a full-scale breakdown.

But in 2008, Mariah came back looking great. Not only had she picked up a hot young husband named Nick Cannon but she looked so tight and fit that people speculated she had undergone $150,000 of plastic surgery — rumors she adamantly denies. Although she has been through some mental and fashion disasters, Mariah still reigns as the singer with the most number one singles in the United States, and earlier this year posed on the beach with her hubby in a teeny-weeny bikini, proving that a female pop star can still be a sex symbol at 39.

Is the Mariah of 2008 as fabulous as the Mariah of the 90s? Has her comeback been fab or fail?

Two weddings, one TRL meltdown, and 18 No. 1 singles later, Mariah Carey and her leopard-print bikini are working overtime to emancipate sexy from Generation Y. Sure, she’s rumored to have had liposuction of the hips, waist and abdomen — but unless she’s implanted her butt with a perfectly round ball of silicone, we have to give her props in the superficial “looks” department.

With young hubby Nick Cannon, Mimi spent three days in a beach-front villa in Barbados for her 39th birthday. In a couple of decades, expect to see Mariah and Madonna battling it out for Sexiest Celebrity Senior Citizen. [Photo: Splash News Online]

Mariah Carey is giving the recession the finger, with her interest in purchasing a $125 million mansion in Beverly Hills. The singer and her mooching hubby Nick Cannon have apparently made an offer on an estate known as Fleur de Lys, which is a 45,000 square-foot monstrosity of Italian marble, gold moldings, and limestone floors.

The home, which has been on the market for months, comes complete with 12 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms, a ballroom, two kitchens, a 50-person screening room, a nine car garage and a running track. In short, in makes her Tribeca lair look like a homeless shelter. There’s no word on what they’re actually paying for their west coast home, but we have a feeling price was not an issue.  [Photos: WireImage/Realestalker]