Photo: Bryan Tanaka/Instagram
Mariah Careyis marking another trip around the sun!
The five-time Grammy Award winner — whorefers to birthdays as anniversaries— was showered with sweet messages as she turned 51 on Saturday, including one from boyfriend Bryan Tanaka, 37.
“Today is my favorite day. Happy Anniversary my love!” he wrote alongside somethrowback selfiesof the pair.
Jennifer Hudson, 39, who joined Carey andAriana Grandefor aChristmas collaborationlast year, also celebrated Carey’s big day.“Team Jhud pls help me wish @mariahcarey A big Happy anniversary you are truly the best ! And I know how much you love Jhud productions, so we want to say to you here at Jhud productions, we take care of our own and we do consider you and all your lambs our own !” she wrote, referencing Carey’s fans. “Lol we love u!”
For his own post, producer Jermaine Dupritook to Twitter with some throwbacksof the pair together. Calling Carey his “tru friend and musical partner,” Dupri, 48, thanked the singer “for allowing me” to be a part of her “legendary career.”
ReferencingCarey’s 2009 single “Obsessed”, TikToke star Addison Rae, wrote, “Happy Birthday @MariahCarey, obsessed with you.”
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Carey revealed toOUT Magazinein a 2014 cover story that instead of recognizing her age each year, shecelebrates anniversaries of her 12th birthday, “Darling, I’m eternally 12-years-old.”
“As a kid I literally made this pact,” she added. “There had been some sort of argument with my mom and the man she was dating at the time, and somehow I became a part of it—I was around 8 or 9 years old, and I said, ‘I’m never going to forget how it feels to be a kid, and you can’t be seen or heard.’ It’s as though your opinion doesn’t mean anything, or your feelings are not real.”
source: people.com
