Mariah Carey Talks Nick Cannon On Rachael Ray

Mariah Carey stopped by Rachael Ray's morning talk show to chat about her whirlwind romance with hubby Nick Cannon, her rules to live by, and her hidden talent and back up career!  Who knew Mariah went to beauty school? Plus Mariah shares her Halloween plans.

RR: Was it really hard for Nick getting up the courage to ask you out?
MC: He was doing things like always on the who was your celebrity crush and always saying me, and he feels like he has spoke us into existence. He already put in the work on that end, and people would always tell me, and I’d be like ‘Do I believe that? I don’t know if believe that he really said that?’

And then I found out that he said it, and backstage at an award show I said ‘Thanks for all the nice things you have been saying about me!’ and he said he meant every word of it. That was our first introduction, and when we were doing the video it just seemed like we knew each other forever.

RR: Just a simple thing like getting out of a car is a big deal for someone like you. How do you get out of a car successfully?
MC: It’s been really difficult. It’s been one of those things that I needed to learn how to do, but I was always aware of it thank god.

RR: Can you imagine having to be aware of how you get out of a car. It is like the simplest thing.
MC: They got me one time, but thank god I had underwear on! You know it was like I was very thankful for that. But I think what you have to do is you lead with the leg, and then kind of place the hand down, and then you are up. If someone is standing in front of you then you proceed to walk.

RR: So what are our Halloween costume choices?
MC: Well over the years I have been a lot of different costumes. I’ve been a mermaid, they’re all the sexy version. I go that route. Shocking. The mermaid, the nurse, the showgirl, I’ve done all those things. This year Nick and I are going to do the whole thing together…Here are the options: one is a sexy firefighter. Do we like that for me? He can be a regular firefighter guy… then we have an Egyptian…the third one takes a little imagination here.  I would be chocolate chip cookies. The way that is, is it’s just like a two piece little number and its made out of the chocolate chip cookie fabric. But then you have actual cookies sewn on.

RR:  In interesting places? And is he a glass of milk then?
MC: He made this up and he was only kidding, but I liked it. He would be a milk carton with a missing sign over his head.

RR: Believe it or not, Mariah Carey would be a hair dresser and make-up artist.
MC: I went to beauty school, but I dropped out.

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