Showing Mooriah Some 'Spect

We may make fun of "Mooriah", but that's only because we really do love "Mimi". And, after reading on the plane to Amsterdam the great article on her in the current issue of Rolling Stone, we have a whole new respect and admiration for "Mariah".

Says Senorita Carey:

"I have so much gratitude about where I'm at personally and professionally that I don't think I've even expressed it to anybody fully, because it's a teardrop moment. It's not even a teardrop moment, it's a well-of-tears moment. You think I don't get down on my knees and thank God that I survived? I could have been somewhere in a gutter the way my life was going at twelve. I could have been dead, I could have had a disease. I was in some very dangerous situations, and it's only by the grace of God that I survived. People can say whatever they want, but ultimately I'm the same person I was before I became famous. I'm still the girl in the pictures on the wall downstairs in the yellow bikini. I wasn't anybody in the world back then. I was a little interracial child with a dysfunctional family, and I still am. Except I have money now. And that helps."

Amen sister!