Why Mariah Carey Doesn’t Celebrate Birthdays or Believe in Time

Why are you so obsessed with time? Mariah Carey wants to know. 

The 56-year-old recently confirmed longstanding lore that she doesn’t abide by the passage of time, simply because she doesn’t want to exist that way. 

“That is true,” Mariah said during a June 16 Capital FM interview when asked about the rumor. “I just don’t believe in it. Let it go.”

The “Obsessed” singer doesn’t even feel the need for clocks, time zones, or even annual occasions—with the exception of anniversaries. 

“I don’t have a birthday,” Mariah joked, noting that if she needs to make plans, “I’d have somebody call you and figure it out.”

This is not the first time Mariah—who shares 14-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan with ex Nick Cannon—has shared her unusual take. In fact, she previously said she feels even younger than her kids. 

“I do need someone to be like, ‘Ok, we’ve got to go; you’re running late,’” she told Variety in 2019. “Yeah, I am like a petulant child. But my true fans know this. I’m eternally 12.”