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Mariah Carey has revealed that studio bosses gave her an inferiority complex when she was just starting out with her career. She said that her record company made her paranoid about her looks at a young age.

She says, “I remember starting out and being at a record company at 19 and having someone tell me, ‘This is your good side and this is your bad side. Don’t ever let anyone take any pictures of you from that side. You look terrible from that side’, and so on. I created this whole complex, like I didn’t already have enough of a complex. I felt very different as a bi-racial person. Growing up where I was, being half-black and half-white, was a weird and difficult thing because I didn’t quite fit in either place and I moved around a lot. So when I went from that to this world it was like, ‘Let’s create an inferiority complex before we make this person go on TV and try to have confidence.’ So it was all about building self-confidence.”

Wow, that really sucks. But who cares about looks when you’ve got a voice like that!

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