Mariah Carey is truly a sight to behold on the new and very special "Vegas issue" of Paper magazine. Would you expect anything less, darling? The 47-year-old appears in nothing but fishnet stockings, a body chain, and thong. Her hair was used to cover her boobs à la Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus," but that doesn't count!

In the magazine, Mimi switches her topless look for one of royalty, because she is royalty, OK?! Here, she's wearing a diamond encrusted clamshell bra (Venus again, y'all!) and a black bustier, topped off with not one, but two tiaras fit for the queen she is. It wouldn't be a true MC shoot if she wasn't a little over-the-top, right?

As always, Mariah looks beyond gorgeous but she doesn't always feel that way. She recently opened up to Page Six about having "low self-esteem."

“I just feel like I am a regular human being and I deserve the same respect as anybody else," Mariah claimed. "I have always had low self-esteem, and people do not recognize that. I can’t measure what type of respect I deserve — I really can’t.”

The singer went on to describe how music helped her overcome to past insecurities about her biracial identity. “Growing up different, having the whole thing where I did not know if I fit in... that is why music became such a big part of my life, because it helped me overcome those issues,” she told Page Six. “Sometimes it is hard to let your guard down.” But in conclusion, sometimes when you do, you're #blessed with a topless Paper magazine cover shoot.

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