Mariah Carey has recounted how she felt like she 'never fit in' growing up because she is mixed race.
The singer, 53, was born in 1969 in New York to her mother Patricia (née Hickey), a former opera singer and vocal coach of Irish descent, and Alfred Roy Carey, an aeronautical engineer of African-American and black Venezuelan-American lineage.
From the onset, her parents faced difficulty being in mixed raced relationship and now, Mariah has opened up about the struggles of her childhood growing up in a predominantly white community.
