Over the past several months, I've paid a little attention to some of the things floating around the social media and networking scene (specifically Twitter) regarding Mariah Carey.
I'm not a Carey fan (well, I haven't been since that MTV episode of Cribs in which she refused to allow the cameras to shoot Marilyn Monroe's famous white piano she purchased at the 1999 Christie's Auction "The Personal Property of Marilyn Monroe" - yeah, it was years ago, and yeah, Carey has since stopped being oddly secretive about it, but, whatever - don't judge me), but most of the talk was about Carey's sleeping habits - rather, her nonsleeping habits - and so I paid attention. In addition to catching @ replies encouraging Carey to get some Zzzzs, various blogs from the celebrity-oriented I'm Not Obsessed! to Dr. Michael J. Breus's The Insomnia Blog picked up on the issue.
Whether Carey stopped staying up all night and then working out at 5 a.m., I have no clue. I hope so. Insomnia sucks.
What I do know, however - or, what Yahoo! tells me - is that whether or not Carey's sleeping properly, she's learned not only how to drop the diva act and stop focusing so much on her appearance, but how beneficial it is to do that.
For Precious, Carey's upcoming film with fellow musician Lenny Kravitz, director Lee Daniels - who was well aware of Carey's diva behavior - warned the singer/actress that coming in to work with so much as a shred of makeup on would get her the boot.
Carey listened, and apparently it paid off in more ways than one.
