Mariah Carey is 44 today, and that reminds me: She is our greatest living celebrity. Mariah is the absolute last “diva,” a righteously self-fanning queen who connects and disconnects from reality often without warning. She's high camp and sort of understands that about herself. Mariah's vacillating levels of awareness make her the perfect celebrity, and it helps that she has made some of the best and most success music of the 20th and 21st centuries. God love Mimi. Here are 15 of the craziest reasons she is The Lamb Of God.