Mariah Carey spent her weekend treating her kids to an eventful time at Cedar Point in Ohio, but judging by her latest Instagram post, the singer quickly learned that attending a theme park in high heels perhaps wasn’t the wisest idea. The “Caution” star shared two snaps from her outing with Moroccan and Monroe, who were casually dressed for the trip while their mom appeared to have made an entire outfit change after swapping her heels for a pair of flats.
She captioned her post, writing, “Had the best time at @cedarpoint! Never again with the heels though!” followed with a laughing emoji. Fellow New Yorker and singer-songwriter Debbie Gibson was clearly amused by the caption as she penned, “Brrrruhahaha! Come on now … you know the New Yorker thing throwing flats into the bag!”
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“My trick is jazz shoes. You can fold em and put ’em in your pocket.” Carey’s post comes just one week after she sat down for an interview with Meghan Markle on her Spotify podcast Archetypes, where the pair discussed growing up as biracial women. The Grammy winner said she could identify with some of Markle’s struggles pertaining to her skin color, recalling how people had often made her to feel like she needed to choose between which race she identified with.
“I mean if there’s any time in my life that it’s been more focused on my race, it’s only once I started dating my husband,” Markle told her guest. Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a black woman, because up until then I had been treated like a mixed woman and things really shifted.”
I had an absolute TREAT today yall. I got to meet the BEAUTIFUL, sweet, lighthearted and talented @MariahCarey today at @cedarpoint. Extremely unexpected yet liberating. Thankyou for being so kind to me and saying you liked my hair, it meant so much. 🥰🥹🖤🖤🖤🖤 pic.twitter.com/LzAbYac5Zg
— 🖤HelloDarkness🖤 (@Lil_Wiji) September 6, 2022
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This prompted Carey to insert her own take on the situation, saying that those who are born biracial shouldn’t feel they need to answer to questions of whether they are black or white. “But that’s an interesting thing, a mixed woman because I always thought it should be OK to say I’m mixed, like it should be OK to say that, but people want you to choose.”
She further discussed how her childhood was plagued with racism in the neighborhood she resided with her family at the time. “I didn’t fit in, it would be more of the black area of town, or then you could be where my mom chose to live, where the more white neighbourhoods and I didn’t fit in anywhere at all.”
“In a world where you’re the mixed kid of a full-on white neighbourhood that’s what you get.”