Mariah Carey: De-glamorizing for New Film Was "Hideous"

Us Magazine - November 2, 2009 9:52 AM PST
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Mimi -- a.k.a. Mariah Carey -- doesn't enjoy being emancipated from her glamorous self.

The singer returns to acting in the buzzed-about gritty drama Precious, playing an 80s-era hard-knock social worker named Mrs. Weiss. And her look in the film -- bad hair, dowdy clothes, even a faint mustache -- is as far from fabulous as she's ever been.

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"It wasn't just de-glamorized," Carey, 40, told Usmagazine.com at Sunday's Precious premiere at Mann's Theater in Hollywood. "They added some hideousness on top of that too. I drank some ugly juice," she said, laughing.

It's not the first time the music star has told Us about the humbling experience, either. At a Precious event in Toronto Sept. 13, she noted "I couldn't even look in the mirror! It was tough."

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Gabourey Sidibe, Precious' young star, told Us in Toronto that Carey "hated" her time in the makeup truck. "She hated her wardrobe! It was the funniest thing. Like the first day of school or something, where you're not wearing the right socks and the whole outfit's ruined."

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"I wouldn't let her look at herself!" added the film's director Lee Daniels. "She just trusted me. I knew she was serious [about her performance]."

But once filming was through, Carey used her beauty school education to make things right again. "I just dealt with hair first -- I have my own little tricks!"

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  • Joanna
    SHE LOOK SO UGLY IN ONE PIC AND THE OTHER ONE SHE LOOK SEXY
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 1:03 PM PST
  • Franco Z.
    It's too bad Mariah doesn't feel secure enough to have her face exposed to the public without caking it with makeup. Does she hate herself when she gets up each morning or does she have bed makeup. Her statements about her looks are not realistic to millions of women that don't have her means and are demeaning to women that are just "regular looking". In h
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 9:03 AM PST
  • Fendifreak
    She looks like TI's wife Tiny
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 8:37 AM PST
  • LZ
    The truth of it is she actually looks that way without all the makeup and having her hair done. She is really the person without all the makeup. She seems too vain and needs to get the chip off her shoulder. Without all the glam she is a very, plain jane and not pretty at all.
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 8:13 AM PST
  • JB
    Oh good grief! Get over yourself. It's acting. You know, where you pretend to be someone else?? Be happy to have the chance. Someone out there actually looks like your character and would be hurt by all the rude remarks about being "ugly" enough that you couldn't look in a mirror.
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 7:11 AM PST
  • Lizzy
    Mariah will always be beautiful!
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 6:40 AM PST
  • Karen
    Oh, so looking like half the women I've ever met makes Mariah Carey "hideous"? Poor, poor little spoiled, superficial, egocentric, airheaded diva... That's one of the most offensive and insulting displays I've ever witnessed. I bet she thought the dress she was falling out of on Leno the other night was stylish and didn't make her look the first
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 5:19 AM PST
  • Steve
    Can her chest get any bigger? DAMN! What's up DOLLY!
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 5:08 AM PST
  • Steve
    Can her chest get any bigger? DAMN! What's up DOLLY!
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 5:08 AM PST
  • laneys' bouncy blouse ....lol..
    i think Mariah Carey should apologize for that comment she made about "drinking the ugly juice" . i think that its demoralizing to people that are not up to her standards of looks . some people don't have money or wealth to be able to look good like she does or dress in fashionable clothing and she needs to wake up and think that half her audience are people that drank
    report abuseposted November 5, 2009 12:38 AM PST
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