
MARIAH Carey has just sent the pregnancy rumor mill into overdrive!
The singer/actress — who’s married to actor/rapper Nick Cannon — abruptly pulled out of her role in Tyler Perry’s new film this week — fueling speculation she’s expecting her first child.
Carey — who won acclaim for her work in Precious – was set to appear in the adaptation of Ntozake Shange’s 1975 play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Filming was set to start next month.
But on Tuesday Carey withdrew from the project, and her spokeswoman has since released a rather vague statement.
“I’m not at liberty to discuss her personal life at this time,” said publicist Cindi Berger, declining to give a reason for Carey’s withdrawal.
Cannon has previously spoken of his desire to start a family with the We Belong Together hitmaker.
“We absolutely plan to have a family,” he said earlier this year. “But we gotta prioritize, because that’s a major, major priority.
“That’s like the only priority in life, when you think about it, is starting and raising a family. We want to make sure everything is out of the way and that we don’t have any distractions.
“She’s on tour right now, I’m doing a bunch of stuff, so eventually we want to be able to say it’s time to have a kid, and set everything up.
“But we’re definitely moving toward.”
Mariah revealed last year that she and Nick have “discussed” having kids.
“We’ve definitely discussed it,” she said in November. “The only thing is that at this particular moment, it’s almost Christmas. He’s doing his work and I’m promoting and doing all this stuff. Right now is not the moment.
“My parents were divorced and it’s not like, ‘Oh, woe is me!’ A lot of people’s parents are divorced but I would just like to have a nice, normal life for that moment.”