Mariah Carey reportedly felt unattractive when she was growing up because of her mixed race background.
Speaking to Observer Woman Magazine, the singer, whose mother is Irish-American and her father was an African-American of Venezuelan descent, claims she never fitted in at school because of her heritage.
She said: "I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race. It's not so weird now, and everyone's accepting it in a big way, but as a child I felt very out of place and didn't feel pretty.
"When you grow up with that type of insecurity you don't always feel pretty."
