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Mariah Carey is a proud parent to her 13-year-old twins, Monroe and Moroccan, whom she shares with ex Nick Cannon.
During a rare interview, Carey, 55, said her sweet teenagers don’t have the same "evil" personality that she had growing up.
"I love them so much," the pop singer told E! News. "They're really good kids… I don’t think that they're bad or evil in any way like I was… they're very smart, and they're funny — and… I'm the mommy."
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Mariah Carey reveals how different her teenage twins Monroe and Moroccan are from her.
Moroccan and Monroe are the eldest children of Cannon’s. He has 10 younger children with five other women.
The "Always Be My Baby" singer continued to share insight into how she is as a mother to teenage twins.
"Am I mean? No," Carey said. "Am I lenient? Probably. Because I don't want to be that person that's like the bleak one in the crowd and they don't want to be around me or something."
Carey and Nick Cannon welcomed their twins in 2011. (Jean-Baptiste Lacroix/AFP via Getty Images)
Carey shared that the twins recently supported her during her Las Vegas residency.
"They did want to come see the show the other night," she added. "But… I didn't know if they really wanted to come or if it was somebody else saying it. You never know!"
While Carey and Cannon raise their twins together, Cannon is the father of 10 other children with five other women. (FilmMagic)
In 2022, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Christmas" revealed how her "messed up" childhood led her to find joy in the holiday.
During an interview with W Magazine, the pop icon shared the origin story of her popular holiday classic, "All I Want for Christmas."
"The idea of me doing a Christmas album at all came from the record company," Carey explained.
Carey is the self-proclaimed "Queen of Christmas." (James Devaney/WireImage via Getty Images)
"It was very early in my career, and I thought it was a little early for me to be doing that, but I was like, ‘Well, I love Christmas.’ I had some very sad Christmases as a child, but I always try to find the bright light there."
The six-time Grammy winner told the outlet she wrote the 1994 hit when she was up late one night playing with a keyboard and walking around the home she once shared with ex-husband Tommy Mottola.
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Carey previously revealed how her "messed up" childhood led her to find joy in the holiday. (Terence Patrick/CBS via Getty Images)
"I didn’t want it to feel specific to any era, so we didn’t use sounds that were happening at that time," she explained. "That way, it would feel classic and timeless.
"But I could never have imagined that it would become such a major part of my life."
Meanwhile, as Carey and Cannon raise their twins together, the father of 12 has a bountiful brood.
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Cannon and his son with Brittany Bell, Golden Cannon, smile on the red carpet. (Daniel Knighton)
Cannon welcomed his 12th child in December 2022 with Alyssa Scott. The couple were also parents of a son who died in 2021 at five months old.
He additionally has three children with model Brittany Bell, and another set of twins and a daughter with radio personality Abby De La Rosa.
Reality television star Brie Tiesi and model LaNisha Cole each have one child with Cannon.
