![]() Mariah - whose 11-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, stole the show during her “All I Want For Christmas” performance Thursday - channeled those desires into a children’s book about a young girl named Little Mariah. “That’s why I want my kids to have everything they can have.” Carey recently published a children’s book titled “The Christmas Princess.” GC Images “But when you grow up with a messed-up life and then you’re able to have this transformation where you can make your life what you want it to be? That is joy for me,” she explained. “People think I had this princess-style life or whatever, a kind of fairy-tale existence where I just emerged, like, ‘Here I am!’ And that is not what it is,” she told the mag. ![]() The musical icon - who brought the spirit of her favorite holiday to this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade while decked out in a tiara and ballgown - said the Christmases she spent as a kid were far from idyllic. Mariah recalled feeling “othered” as a biracial girl growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood in New York and described her childhood as “extremely dysfunctional … to the point where it’s shocking that made it out of that at all.” She added that she “grew up with an opera singer for a mother, who went to Juilliard and made her debut at Lincoln Center.” Getty Images According to their superstar daughter, the prima donna persona is partly an “affectation” and partly “a response” to her upbringing.
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