Tommy Mottola And Wife Thalia Have Baby Girl; Mariah Carey And Her Pets Have Humongous Closet
Earlier today I wrote a piece on Mariah Carey’s interview with Glamour magazine, where she opened up about her life, her music, and her huge, 12,000 square foot home (complete with a 3,000 square foot closet for clothing, but not lingerie…that is a different closet, you see). I wondered, at the time, why Mariah would choose to open up her life to the cameras now. I know she has an album coming out, but that couldn’t be the only reason. After all, she’s had other albums released.
Then, I was scrolling through Perez Hilton and came across this little blurb:
Felicidades, Mami!
Mexican pop star, actress and entrepreneur Thalia and her husband, music mogul Tommy Mottola, welcomed their first child on Sunday, PerezHilton.com has learned.
The girl, named Sabrina, weighed in at a very healthy 8 lbs 4 ozs and came into this world after a trying 20 hours in labor.
Mother and daughter are resting comfortably.
I was another couple of articles down the page before it clicked. Wait…Tommy Mottola is the ex-husband of Mariah Carey. He and his wife just had a baby, and he seems to be thrilled at the new addition:
“Mother, father and baby Sabrina are all healthy and very happy and will be residing at their ranch in Colorado,” the singer’s rep said in a statement. [...]
Asked for Mottola’s opinion about expanding the family, ThalÃa, 35, told PEOPLE EN ESPAÑOL that her husband, 58, has wanted to have kids together for years.
“If it had been up to Tommy, I would have had children from the first day we married. I would already have three or four,” she said.
Mariah, on the other hand, claims that she is in no hurry to have children, despite being thirty-seven years old:
The Grammy-winning singer also says she’s not in any rush to have children. “What I want is to have children in a good way, with the right husband, with the right family life.”
Asked if that means she’d only have children if she were married, “I think so,” she says. “But who knows? Five years from now I might get hysterical and say, ‘I have to have kids!’ But I don’t think so.”
And she admits that she’s never been in love:
“With a human being I don’t know, but definitely with a pet. [Laughs.] I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a relationship of the caliber I write about in my love songs.â€
Timing is everything. The week before ex-husband Tommy (with whom Mariah never had children and whom she divorced after four years of marriage) and his wife had their baby, an interview with Mariah is published in which her lavish lifestyle and luxurious home are splashed across the glossy pages of a magazine.
It beggars the question:Â Is Mimi trying too hard?
Now, this is just my opinion, but it appears that M is attempting to justify her extravagant lifestyle and home to herself, if to nobody else. It just screams, “Look at me….I am a success! Look at my expensive furniture, look at my beautiful chandeliers and fixtures, look at my opulent lifestyle, look at my humongous closet filled with shoes and clothing and accessories that I never wear, look at me….all of this makes me a success!” And in the meantime, her ex and his new wife are making beautiful babies together and are, by all accounts, very happy.
Is living well truly the best revenge? I guess it depends on your definition of “living well”. Suddenly, the Glamour interview makes perfect sense. I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’.
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Pingback by Hollywood » Tommy Mottola And Wife Thalia Have Baby Girl; Mariah Carey And Her … — October 9, 2007 @ 12:51 am
OH, you’re saying it alright. And I am agreeing.
Mariah always struck me a girl in a woman’s body. Not terribly mature.
Like most celebs.
Comment by Dawn — October 9, 2007 @ 6:45 am
Mariah is a no-talent human dog whistle.
Comment by daryl d — October 9, 2007 @ 9:36 am
I’ll just say this much — at least she’s not sprouting out kids that she doesn’t have the maturity or mental capacity to properly care for!
Comment by Angel — October 9, 2007 @ 7:00 pm
As part of the sports media, I have to say, it’s things like this that make me understand why the famous don’t trust journalists.
I just read the article and thought how meaningful it is that someone is opening their home in that way. And here you are, not long after, trying to read something into it that mainly makes you sound bored.
I’d guess if she reads your rude comments she won’t soon open her doors again. And that’s a shame. Because when people let us journalists in (be it home or heart) it’s a privilege we should have some respect for.
Comment by jessica — October 9, 2007 @ 9:56 pm
I blog. Since Mariah is a person in the public eye, when she gives interviews destined to be read by the populous at large, I can then form an opinion and also offer said opinion. I never said everyone had to agree with me.
And I should feel privileged that someone in her position deigned to grant me a chance to breathe her rarefied air?
I call it like I see it…if someone does well, I will say so; if someone is acting like a diva, I will say so as well. Again my opinions…feel free to disagree, but don’t try to tell me how privileged I should feel. She is no better than you or I or anyone else in this world, she just has more money.
Comment by k — October 9, 2007 @ 10:15 pm
Mariah Carey is clearly very overpaid for what she does, as shown by the absurdly overdone extravagance of her home. She grants an interview to a magazine, and we plebes comment on what we see. K had some unusual insight into the big picture, that I haven’t heard anyone else comment on. I hope Mariah’s happy but I suspect that under that dazzling smile, she is not. It strikes me that she opened up her home primarily to show off. K should be able to say whatever she wants about it - at least her commentary is less rude and trivial than what I see on other websites.
I live in a small, run down, one-bedroom apartment, so here’s my take on it: Where’s Karl Marx when you need him!
Comment by Mitsu — October 10, 2007 @ 9:12 am
As said in the article, Mariah worked hard to get all the things that she has. She is a very talented singer, and unless you can hit the notes that she can I really don’t think that you can argue with that. Maybe if you trash talkers worked as hard as she did, you would have a lot of money to spend on the things that you like. Don’t trash talk her because she made a lot of money and bought a nice home and filled it with things she likes and wants. You don’t have to like her or her music, but jealousy and envy don’t really get you anywhere in life.
Comment by D — October 10, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
Those of you trashing my article are missing the entire point! You say I’m envious and jealous, but you’re missing what I really said. If it weren’t so ironic it would be funny. (BTW, I am perfectly happy with my home and what I have in it…I’ve been through a lot for my home and I have no desire for more. I certainly don’t desire more than I’ll ever need…that’s just gluttonous.)
My point was this….Mariah has a lot of money. Mariah has a huge, expensive house filled with lavish furnishings. Mariah has a beautiful voice. Mariah has a lot of things. But….is Mariah happy?
THINGS are not the measure of our success. THINGS do not make us happy. THINGS do not love us back. THINGS can be gone in a nanosecond. What does she have….besides things? What is in her life to make her happy…besides stuff? When she is on her deathbed, and she looks back on her life, will she say, “I’m really glad I had a lot of stuff!”?
She seems to need to prove to everyone, but probably herself most of all, that she is a success, and that she’s no longer that little gawky girl that people made fun of. And she uses her stuff and her divaness to do that. But it’s all so temporal….it can be gone in a second. It isn’t important. Her voice, her money, her diva attitude…all completely unimportant.
Trust me, I know.
Comment by k — October 10, 2007 @ 5:13 pm
Thank you, Mitsu….I really appreciate that.
Comment by k — October 10, 2007 @ 5:14 pm
Life is about stuff, that’s what we work so hard for. Mariah is a success. She doesn’t need to have kids to be a success and be happy, and what the heck, she is better than most of us if not all of you haters. She’s a smart girl that’s just timing every move in her life.
Comment by yesenia — October 11, 2007 @ 8:46 am
There Number ‘3′ person, saddo she has talent as she is the best selling female artist… duhh… am sure ur fav celeb aint sold half as her…
Comment by Moi.. — October 14, 2007 @ 11:15 am
The Glamour interview, as with any other magazine interviews, was probably done 1-2 months ahead of the issue. How could it be possible that Mariah timed it perfectly with the baby’s delivery? She planned everything? She must be more powerful than I thought!
Comment by JW — October 15, 2007 @ 10:23 am
Math isn’t hard to do, and even Mariah can count to nine.
Comment by k — October 15, 2007 @ 10:38 am
I don’t think happiness is the same for everybody. Thalia and Tommy seem happy with having the baby. Mariah is happy having freedom, working hard,making albums on a frequent basis and being famous worldwide. Nothing wrong with that either.
I am 29, don’t have any children, have a great boyfriend and in law school. I am pretty happy with my apartment, relationship, life and education. My sister has three kids and is 22. She goes to beauty school and is very happy. I think we are both successful and happy in our ways. To each her own.
If Mariah is anything like me she wants to accomplish some things before she has a family. Now and days women have kids later in life -late 30s, and even 40s. Look at Madonna.
Thalia is successful in a different way. She is raising a family. I think this shows that women can be successful and happy in any way they choose to be. One way is no better than the other.
Furthermore, Thalia and Mariah are not dead yet… What I mean by this is that Mariah could definitely have kids and a hubby in the future. Maybe Thalia will someday become as a big of star as Mariah.
God knows what He is doing. He has a special and unique plan for everyone. It’s all good.
Comment by bonnie — December 19, 2007 @ 3:08 am
Mariah Carey is just doing whats important to her reguardless of what you or anyone else thinks and lets face it who wouldnt want all that she has and if anyone had money like she does im sure you would be doing the same thing but i dont think its right for someone else to condone her for it it aint a sin she wokred for what she gots and she is very sucessful so instead of hating on her give her some props shes doing it on her own AS A PROUD SUCESSFUL WOMAN !!!!
Comment by Dana — May 2, 2008 @ 3:49 am
“It just screams, “Look at me….I am a success! Look at my expensive furniture, look at my beautiful chandeliers and fixtures, look at my opulent lifestyle, look at my humongous closet filled with shoes and clothing and accessories that I never wear, look at me….all of this makes me a success!â€
that’s right and well EARNED! good for you, Mariah. Who is this very envious journalist, anyway?
I’m not sayin’, I’m just sayin’…..
Comment by Babs — May 8, 2008 @ 2:53 pm