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<\/p>\nTo preserve his eternal youth Dorian Gray traded his soul, while it was said that Queen Cleopatra bathed daily in sour donkey milk to delay the ageing process.<\/p>\n
But Mariah Carey, the US pop star and self-confessed diva, has another method: refuse to acknowledge ageing altogether. <\/p>\n
The singer, 56, has said that ageing \u201cjust doesn\u2019t happen\u201d to her because she \u201cdoes not acknowledge time\u201d. In an interview with Harper\u2019s Bazaar UK, Carey was asked how she deals with getting older. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t allow it \u2014 it just doesn\u2019t happen. I don\u2019t know time. I don\u2019t know numbers. I do not acknowledge time,\u201d she replied. <\/p>\n
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Carey appears on the front cover of this month\u2019s edition of Harper\u2019s Bazaar<\/p>\n
ALEXI LUBOMIRSKI\/HARPER\u2019S BAZAAR<\/p>\n
The Fantasy singer, who has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, has spoken before about her ability to ignore time. Speaking to People magazine in 2015 she said: \u201cI think I have to remain eternally oblivious to age.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, when you put a number on it yourself, it\u2019s just like, why? Why do that?\u201d<\/p>\n
In a 2014 interview with Out magazine she was asked about her lengthy career \u2014 which now spans more than three decades \u2014 as one of the world\u2019s most famous pop stars.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, don\u2019t round up. If you\u2019re going to round, round down!\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t count years, but I definitely rebuke them \u2014 I have anniversaries, not birthdays, because I celebrate life, darling.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m eternally 12 years old,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n
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Carey promoting her album, Emotions, in New York in 1991<\/p>\n
RON GALELLA\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n
In 2015 she was asked in an interview with James Corden<\/a> how many No 1 singles she had had. <\/p>\n \u201cYes, 18, that\u2019s why my age stays 18,\u201d she replied. \u201cWe\u2019ll celebrate my 18th birthday with the fact that I\u2019ve had 18 No 1s.\u201d<\/p>\n She has also refused ever to publicly acknowledge her age. Officially, Carey was born on March 27, 1969 in Huntington, New York. <\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have a birthday,\u201d she has joked. \u201cI was just dropped here. It was a fairyland experience.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2022 Live fast, play slow: how tempos drop as singers age<\/a><\/p>\n