Forever A Diva! Mariah Carey Goes Braless & Dons A Crown For Paper Magazine’s Special Issue

If there’s going to be a special issue, then it makes sense that it’s a special star that will be on the cover, no? And because it doesn’t get more special than Mariah Carey, Paper Magazine chose her as one of the stars to grace the cover of their special issue and she’s doing it like a true diva.

The singer got rid of her bra and donned a tiara on the cover and in other photos, tulles, glitters and diamonds make a generous appearance.

On her diva moments: ‘Actually, I have had diva moments, and then people can’t handle it. I guess it’s a little intense, because I come from a true diva: My mother is an opera singer. And that’s a real diva, you know — Juilliard diva. And so other people that are like, ‘I’m a diva,’ it’s like, ‘Honey, you don’t know what a diva is, you didn’t grow up with my mom.’ [Laughs] And I mean it as a compliment, or I wouldn’t be the person I am without experiencing that. And so when people hear me say, like, ‘Dahling da da da da’ and talk that way, it’s kinda like I’m channeling my mother. Not that she says ‘dahling’ all the time, but like that voice is… it’s like I inadvertently do it, and I don’t do it to be disrespectful, I just do it and it just happens and it’s like, [in diva voice] ‘I don’t even know why.’