Who was more beautiful in their prime: Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey?

Whitney Houston

Pariah Scarey was always a dog. Whitney, while not beautiful, was tall and pretty with an equally pretty voice.

Mariah is one of those women that mostly looks like her father..which is usually not a good thing.

Whitney by a long shot.

Whitney

Whitney & it’s not even close.

Whitney

Whitney was a former model. I prefer Mariah though.

Both were okay

Whitney in the How Will I Know video is just beautiful.

Both gay.

Whitney was gorgeous and very stylish too. I loved her fashion sense. She could pull off classy, edgy and daring and it all worked.

Whitney

Mariah was very Long Island-ish in the beginning but over time grew into a very attractive woman.

Whitney was gorgeous, but drugs took a toll on her.

I just want somebody to love me.

Whitney no question. Better singer too.

Unfortunately, Mariah always had that unfortunate Monkey Face in a zoo factor, unfortunately...

Madonna was prettier than both

Whitney had a gorgeous face.

Mariah had a more beautiful face

R18 haha nope

R21, why?

Neither one.

Equal

Whitney was next level gorgeous. Mariah was just pleasant looking, by comparison. I think it was the rounder face and somewhat weird nose that did Mariah in.

I had the T & A.

R25, what don't you like about Mariah's nose? Just wondering.

Whitney by far

Houston

Vanity

If we’re talking prime, Mariah.

I’m a millennial, I didn’t live through the 80’s. Whitney always seemed 40-something to me growing up in the 90’s. I think it was the hair.

When I think of Mariah in her prime, I think of the Daydream and Butterfly albums and she was gorgeous.

Whitney was more beautiful. Mariah was more cute. Mariah went too far with the plastic surgery on her face.

The coke kept Whitney slim; the Vegas residency room service didn't work out so well for Mariah...

Whitney was one of the most beautiful women in the world in her prime.

You bitches need glass...

I do need some glass. That’s the new slang for Crystal, right?

Whitney. Mariah was striking because of her mixed look, but she was never truly classically beautiful. Then once she started getting work done she ruined even the striking look she had.

Whitney

Neither one. Vanity looked better than both of them put together.

Florence Henderson

Mariah

Whitney was truly beautiful, her looks get under played because of her phenomenal voice.

Mariah is a pretty woman but then she tried looking like a bombshell and got fat, neither of which were good looks on her.

For shame, it was Whitney.

Mariah

Whitney

Whitney. Much much better singer too.

Guess Whitney is the winner

Besides beauty and talent, pretty sure Whitney was a better dancer too.

Janet.

Mariah was never really beautiful. Whitney devastatingly so.

Whitney, Mariah has always been average but those expensive wigs, facials, makeup artists made her seem pretty. Whitney was always beautiful. Even without all the glamorous shit.

Not Mariah. Her natural state was wallflower with no chest and flat ass.

Then she went for too big implants trying to look like a porn star. What a tacky whore!

Mariaha looks like Kathie Lee Gifford....

Whitney was more beautiful. She was a model and actress before she became a singer. She had that thin healthy physique and naturally pretty face that didn't need makeup or big hair to make it look better. She was the full package: beauty, charisma and talent. She was a much more lively performer that had some rhythm and oomph too.

Mariah was just hair, makeup and big tits. Her face is nice but kinda plain. She was also lighter-skinned and ethnically ambiguous which made her perceived as "attractive for a Black girl" because of colorism. Mariah turned herself into a walking sex doll oohing and aahing in her songs like a porn star to keep up with the 2000s which was all about slutty pop and rap music. Mariah is a cold fish on stage too and lip syncs.

Lil' Kim

Whitney’s looks bored me. I liked Mariah’s cuteness.

Mariah was cute/beautiful/exotic.

There’s a music video with Mariah riding on the back of a wet bike and I remember thinking how cute she was. In other videos I really liked her high cheekbones and overall look.

Mariah was cute and pretty.

Whitney was beautiful.

Mariah was pretty for about 5 minutes when she first hit the scene. Then something weird happened to her face, like her cheeks were pushing the rest of her features in.

Whitney was classically beautiful and had an absolutely luminous smile.

straight men wanted to fuck Mariah though.

Mariah Carey has a weird face:

Big forehead Small/plain eyes Chipmunk cheeks Bulbous nose Huge/long/protruding space between nose and mouth No lips Jowls Weak chin Etc

And she's too fat, tall and big-boned, etc.

More beautiful? Neither one was beautiful. Whitney was far more attractive. Mariah has goofy, features. Not even butterface attractive because her body is stubby, too.

I think they both lookalike

R2 lay off the meth. Whitney Houston was beautiful.

Whitney was. Mariah, honestly, really? Do people honestly think that? Who? Why?

I can't think of any women in showbiz that had Whitney Houston's combination of looks and talent.

Whitney had that classic moviestar look.

I don't like Mariah's songs. They seem like just there, and I can never remember them. But even if I didn't, beautiful? Really? In what world? Why does anybody think that?

But Whitney, yes, classically and obviously beautiful? Why is this even a question?

Whitney. Mariah had some weird short upper lip thing going on. She did have a certain visual appeal,though.

Whitney was classically pretty.

Not even close, Whitney was a legit model.

You couldn’t have done a poll, OP? Was that too much effort?

Whitney.

Yeah, hate you OP and your ass face!

(Unlike you, Whitney. You look great.)

Mariah was cute, but Whitney was beautiful. I’m one of those queens who tears up when I think about Whitney too hard. Sorry, not sorry.

I am so teary lately r76. I used to laugh at people like us, but honestly, you cry all you need to cry bitch. It's okay.

Whitney was beautiful, kind and talented. It is a shame she ended the way she did. Always love her.

This question is shitty because they were both beautiful. But definitely Mariah Carey. There is a reason why biracial women are well represented in media compared to their frequency in the general US population. They usually have the best features from their black parent and the best features from their white parent and it makes a supermodel. Rihanna, Doja Cat, Naomi Campbell, Zendaya, Drake, Lisa Bonet, Halle Berry, Rashida Jones, and many others. Great personalities and character too, because growing up they never fit in with the whites or the blacks. Barack Obama, not a model, but definitely not bad looking.

Mariah was cute with big boobs and long hair. Her mixed appearance made her "exotic" and she hoed herself in her videos a lot. She was sultry and slutty but never truly beautiful. She fit the MTV sex doll look like Britney, Christina, Jessica, Beyonce and J Lo.

Whitey was not only a singer but was a model and natural actress with glamour and poise. She didn't need to go the sexual route to turn heads.

Wow, not seeing it at all, r79. not in Mariah, in the others you mention, definitely Halle Berry, Naomi Campbell of course, Rihanna, but no a lot of that, well, okay.

R79 Naomi Campbell and Rihanna are not biracial. Naomi has some Chinese and white (common in Jamaica) but looks completely African and she was beloved because she was so dark-skinned with unambiguously Black features. If Rihanna is a quarter Irish but if didn't have green eyes, nobody would think she was biracial. Halle looked just Black before her nose job. Drake is not handsome.

Biracials fit in more with Black people because majority of Blacks are mixed just not 50-50 mix. African-Americans are 20% white on average.

^ True. If you want to find "pure" black people, Africa is the only place to look. All black people in the America's have mixed lineages.

Mariah NEVER looked this bad.

R83 Yes. I'm Black myself and light-skinned with both Black parents. But I've had Africans say I'm mixed and not Black. Mixed people are a separate category in Spanish, French and African countries and seen closer to white than Black.

Mariah was attractive, but Whitney was gorgeous. Maybe her christening was a variation on Sleeping Beauty's: the good fairies blessed her with a beautiful face and voice, and then a wicked fairy turned up and cursed her with an addictive personality.

Comparing apples and oranges is fruitile.

Whitney

Of course Whitney. Whitney was a much much better singer and much more beautiful than Mariah

Phyllis Hyman was the full package. She predates Whitney a bit. Angela Bofill was the original exotic way before Mariah and predates Whitney a bit as well.

Man. Whitney Houston was gorgeous and she had a majestic singing voice as well as a natural acting ability. She was a rare talent. Unicorn rare. She was a natural born triple threat. Poor thing. Bless her soul.

Call me a Datalounge Mary but Whitney Houston was tragically and maniacally self destructive.

Mariah is alright. When she first started out she was lovely with her five foot ten inch self and all that nice long and natural hair. Facially she's not working with much past her pretty eyes.

Mariah Carey has actual composition skills. Not as good as Angela Bofill's really but Mariah could actually get into working with other artists as a composer or songwriter if she wanted to.

Whitney

They're different styles, at their prime Mariah was more sex kitten and Whitney was more queenly. I find Butterfly era Mariah prettiest

Whitney was classically beautiful. Tall, slim and regal.

Don’t even need a poll: miss Whitney

Mariah Carey was always a chore to look at. I still can't get that fucking wedding picture out of my head. The gross one of her wearing a tiara. Yuck.

Disturbing Picture Warning. Potential to sear into your memory and disturb your peaceful slumber.

I think this picture is from Whitney's modelling days.

Whitney and Mariah were pretty plain in their youth. Aretha was gorgeous when she started out, always well put together and perfectly groomed.

^ First person I've seen describe Aretha in those terms.

Gotta agree on Whitney.

Mariah was cute in her heyday in an Amy Grant mallrat sort of way but the airs of cuntiness and crazy were always there.... to be real, she would have been forgotten if not for her whistle.

while Whitney was charming in her early career because of her insecurities despite (or in spite of) her fam (like the rumours her aunt could have given Joe Jackson a run for his money) and husband, at least until addiction and multiple disorders took over.

^ insecurities = maybe vulnerability is a better word to use... which we're more conditioned to find attractive.

and aunt = cousin.

I get their family relations so confused in all the drama...

but it did sound more like sister rivalry since the older rumours centered on the more successful Di bullying Cissy and allegedly trying to direct Whitney's career when her own star faded whereas all the rumours after Whitney's death seem more like a grift between all the various estranged family members. . . and the 'honorary' industry fam. (Still, all sounding very Jackson like.)

r83 yeah, with the advent of consumer level genetic ancestry sites.. it's always funny to see the reactions of Americans - while some are looking for the exotic noise (noise = small percentages that may not actually be what they're labeled as, just random data from misinterpreted which can vary from test to test, service to service of the small amount of personal genes tested, let alone the comparative sample sizes) - many "Americans" (and minorities in western nations) are looking to claim authenticity to makeup for a largely unknown history. So, you'll find several African Americans that look dark skin yet have a large percentage of European genes (also among native americans with ancestral roots in northeast and more so in South America, where miscegenation was promoted vs the anti-laws of North America, and there's similar patterns in India too but the public where the expected colourism and featurism is reversed to assumptions of native/nationalist authenticity... but it requires an understanding of history and primarily the demographics in close promixity of the location. The south might have darker complexions but had more exposure to international traders while the northerns could be considered more phenotypically diverse yet consistent with their neighbors and viewed as reflective of region. )

Whitney, of course...with a voice to match.

Mariah Carey has never been beautiful. She's always looked like a streetwalker.

This pretty much settles it. Next. Good god she was stunning.

My favorite scene in THE BODYGUARD was when Whitney was singing I HAVE NOTHING at the Fountainbleu (or whatever it was called). She was exquisitely dressed and the camera was loving her face. Totally worth sitting through the whole movie just to watch her.

It's way too harsh to call Mariah slutty, she was flirty and had sex appeal. It only looks that way compared to Whitney because she was exceptionally polished and regal.

Whitney had beauty but never came across as sexual onstage. It's a different kind of charisma

R107 True initially she was a cute girl-next-door. But she did go the slutty route after "Honey" and most of her 2000s music videos were her showing off her body and singing in sultry tone and objectifying herself. Now she is trying to be a princessy diva with gowns and tiaras.

Was Mariah ever beautiful? She was pretty but nothing above that

Mariah also has massive feet. Still one of the best pop voices ever.

Mariah was glowing when she was with Derek Jeter, got some of her best music out of that relationship. Man I loved 90s New York.

Whitney was beautiful and regal. She is class. Mariah is not a pretty woman. She’s fat, lip syncs and she is insecure. People only look up to Whitney or Madonna.

[quote]People only look up to Whitney or Madonna. People only look up to Whitney or Madonna.

No.

r113, Begging Bobby to pull a turd out of her ass is hardly classy.

I don't think anyone looks up to Madonna besides 50 year old gays. Whitney is still admired for her vocal chops. Mariah is becoming a joke now on par with Madonna. Both Madge and Mimi will become admired again once they die. As it usually goes.

Nippy is insulted at your question, OP.

Mariah didn’t need to get implants - she’s barrel chested like Patti Labelle and they make her look top heavy. But she was always pretty. Whitney Houston was flat out gorgeous, with a Reed thin model figure and impeccable facial structure. She got most of her looks from her father.

Funny how after it came out that her dad was part African American, Mariah got blonder and blonder with straighter hair too. If she had been born in Latin America, she’d be classified as a white woman. Only in America…

Yeah in Latin America having white blood and looking white makes you a white person even if your parent or grandparent is a person of color. In the US, white people passed laws to prevent this in order to keep themselves "pure." What's white in Latin America would be called light skinned in The US.

That's why so many Latinos come to the US and put white on the census. It's not self hate or denial like some claim. It's more they are of mixed bloodline and there's no specific categories for it on the census (like mestizo, moreno, etc). And being from a culturally Spanish Catholic country they would align more with European identity aka white. Being black or indigenous is also not looked in a positive manner in Latin America. So even the darkest skinned Latino would still claim a biracial identity.

Neither

Whitney is one of the most beautiful women ever lived. Beautiful and talented. She is truly born to be a star.

Whitney was gorgeous in her prime and she was a model. Mariah was cute.

Madonna was more beautiful than both combined

R123, LOL. Good one. Whitney Houston was absolutely beautiful with perfect bone structure, symmetrical face, and a beautiful smile. Mariah Carey is not beautiful but your typical looking attractive Italian, mixed raced, or latina chick from the greater nyc area if you get my drift. She has that certain look. Madge...great highlights, brilliant artistry.....

By the way I love all these ladies in a different ways. Madge is probably favorite music wise and her body of work.

Janet is prettier than them all.

Janet is prettier than a gorilla for sure

Whitney was always a classic beauty. Marian was always a little trashy.

Vanity was more beautiful than both

R126 Yeah Janet, keep lying. Maybe your nose will Gros back.

Honey, you are on the wrong board to ask that question. Gay men will say Whitney, but straight men will say Mariah.

Crackhead vs airhead white girl. You fucks are so lame.

[quote]Crackhead vs airhead white girl.

Mariah isn’t white.

Crack is cheap, you stupid bitch.

Whitney had great bone structure and facial features. She was classically beautiful, but when it came to her style, she always came across like she was told what to wear. There was no personality to her look, no individualistic traits; she was a mannequin.

Mariah is pretty, but not beautiful. Her look is often at the cheap-looking end of expensive designer, but at least it looks like it's her choice, her style. Like it or loathe it, you know what you're getting with Mariah.

R135, I was just a baby gayling but I always heard that about Whitney. I think Janet was considered the style icon among the 3 leading black women.

Whitney Houston No contest

[quote]I think Janet was considered the style icon among the 3 leading black women.

You got that right. She's the only one of the three who drastically changed up her look from album to album. She also had other artists and girls dressing like her.

R131, I didn't know Mariah appealed to straight men. Why do you think they would prefer her over Whitney? Just wondering

R139 because during her rise to popularity she became a sex symbol. Mariah was the biggest American female popstar in the 90s, and she had big tits. Whitney was beautiful sure, and I'm sure frat guys were in love with her when she was young and and in her prime in the 80s. But she was always had a stuffy style and then she became a cocain addict. The rest is history.

Side note anyone remember when Osama Bin Laden was in love with Whitney Houston. Shebcould have performed for him for like 200k or something.

Neither were really beautiful, the gay men in this thread are overstating Whitney's beauty. She had more elegant features. Mariah had a hot body.

Mariah had smallish tits until she got huge gazonga implants, which were newly displayed in her "Heartbreaker" video. She never had much of an ass, but she did have nice gams.

I'm surprised Mariah has never got plastic surgery to fix her face.

She has a huge forehead, no lips, weak chin, huge space between her nose and mouth, etc.

If you dug Whitney’s cracked out corpse and put her by Mariah today, La Houston would still win

Mariah never was, is and will be a pretty woman. I can only describe her as cute when she was young like 30 years ago. She’s now old, fat and getting ugly

R144, she's lightskin black or mixed race with beautiful hair therefore she's pretty to basic Americans.

1. Whitney, 2. Janet Jackson 3. Madonna 4. Mariah

Though Aaliyah and Lauryn Hill were better-looking than those four.

I don't associate beautiful with either if them. Olivia NJ, Blondie, Madonna, Kylie yes. MTF Anne Murray is a handsome woman.

Mariah looked more fuckable and slutty for straight dick

Whitney was a cold fish and would never put out for dick

Mariah Carey may not look better than Whitney. But she wrote her own music and be her own boss. And the shade she throws are legendary. All in all, Hail the Queen Mariah.

Mariah really have talent and is borned to be a singer.

There is no other female singer who is able to do this. She may be a little loon but she deserve every bit of success she has.

[quote]I don't associate beautiful with either if them.

But, you do find those white women you named to be beautiful? RACIST!

Neither

Preach r153.

Neither

Love the poll OP!

Whitney

Whitney. I was blown away by Mariah's voice. But I loved Whitney.

Whitney was absolutely lovely to look at. Up until the drugs and booze took away from her beauty. I do wish that she had stayed away from the wigs and weaves, but it was all about convenience and glamour. I saw her at Humphreys in San Diego when her first album was burning up the charts. She had her natural hair, lightly texturized. Gorgeous young thing, like a gazelle. She carried herself like a young Diahann Carroll. I know that a lot of it was grooming and charm lessons, but man, it worked.

Mariah was pretty, still is. But her fashion tastes have always been unfortunate. And she’s struggling with the battle of the bulge like a lot of us at a certain age. She nor Whitney should have gotten boob jobs.

Whitney in the 80s and early 90s was absolutely stunning. She rocked natural hair and minimal makeup. She had natural glow and presence. And when she had wigs they were tasteful. Then the 90s went on and she got trashier and trashier and started wearing those old lady church wigs. But in her prime, many white men found her beautiful and shocked that a black woman could be so classy and feminine. She was tall and skinny too which got her clowned by some black men who were more into Janet Jackson and Vanessa Williams.

Mariah always looked tacky and was never beautiful. Maybe cute and sexy in doses. Now she looks like a blowup doll.

Whitney

Madonna

[quote]Madonna

Whitney, by a mile, and she was very elegant and stylish too. At least until Bobby Brown came along and she became trashy. But even then she could pull off some stylish looks every now and then.

Mariah is just too awkward and she has no natural charm.

Not only was Whitney more beautiful than Madonna. She was a teen model on magazine covers and had a natural ability as an actress. While Madonna had to pose nude to get pics published and all her movies were flops. Madonna was jealous of Whitney for a reason.

Whitney without a doubt before her using drugs

Janet

Janet didn't become beautiful until the 90s when she filmed Love Will Never Do (Without You) video and her looks peaked during All For You and Damita Jo where her body at its most flawless.

No one was more beautiful than lifelong crackhead Whit, dead in her tub from a bad fix. May she always have that fix on the other side. Po black girl.

Whitney was the black Madonna

Madonna can't sing and wasn't good at modeling, looking beautiful or being in movies. So no Whitney is not the "black Madonna."

R170 smokes more crack than Whitney did.

If we're talking in terms of pop music history. Vanessa Williams takes the cake here. But Whitney was certainly up there in the 80s and early 90s. Aaliyah, Vanity, Lauryn Hill, Shania Twain and Jennifer Lopez are some others I can think of who looked beautiful.

R173, you forgot about Debbie Harry and Madonna

R174 Debbie Harry yes but she isn't what I consider a "pop star." Madonna never looked beautiful.

JLo doesn’t even belong in such esteemed company. Completely unworthy. In terms of looks as well.

We need to do male ones because that is what I think gay men would be more interested to answer.

None of them have Janet's smile. I've never seen a more beautiful, beaming smile on a woman.

R178 I agree she looked so beautiful in the 90s and 2000s. In the 1980s, she was still quite girlish with baby fat and dressed pretty conservative, she couldn't compare to Whitney, Madonna and Paula yet because they were older and in the prime of their looks. But she blossomed in the 90s where she became a sex symbol.

No Belinda Carlisle, Stevie Nicks, Cher?

Whitney. It's not even a contest.

R180 All of them are pretty, I agree. I wasn't thinking Cher though because I feel she's more known for her celebrity and movies than music.

Janet had the help of a plastic surgeon. She’s pretty enough, but there’s an artificiality to her looks.

A plastic surgeon didn't give Janet her smile. She's had that gorgeous grin since she was young.

Janet was always pretty. She didn't really need the nose job just like Halle Berry didn't need hers. Her original nose wasn't anything like La Toya's or Toni Braxton's original nose which I can see the first nose jobs they got as improvement. I think Janet got that nose done to crossover like most black actresses, singers and models do. Beyonce got her nose done before her debut solo.

R183, what looks fake about her?

I wish Latoya had stopped messing with her nose after the first surgery.

She looked her best then and ruined it with every further nose job after the first one.

She definitely needed the first nose job though. Her original nose was awful.

Chaka Khan.

IMO, Belinda Carlisle, Madonna, JLo, and Janet Jackson aren't really great singers.

Vanessa Williams is competent, on key, has good timing and stage presence, but just lacks the power that Whitney had and Mariah has / had.

R160: couldn’t agree more about Whitney’s awful old lady church wigs she started wearing from 1995 onwards. They aged her terribly.

I give Whitney credit for not doing super-long hair extensions and long wigs, though.

She was always hot and sweaty on stage, so I think that's why she chose those short wigs. The long wigs would have been so much worse (heat-wise).

Vanessa was a theatre singer more suited to showtunes. She wasn't really suited to R&B but of course being black and fitting the "light, bright" beauty standard then, she was likely told to hop on the new jack swing movement and compete with Janet, Jody and Pebbles. It worked and it helped get her career revival kickstarted and she got to act which is her true passion. But she always wanted to sing jazz and pop standards and ballads. I think she was really good for house songs though like "Running Back to You."

Whitney had natural hair early on.

Whitney had a very beautiful and feminine face and didn't need really long hair. Halle Berry and Sharon Stone are other beautiful woman who look great with short hair. Long hair is needed for women like Jennifer Aniston who have stronger faces that need softening.

They’re beautiful in different ways but I’d say about equal. Whitney looked more model beautiful. I still think Mariah is beautiful even if she’s gained a lot of weight.

More natural Whitney. She was a truly gorgeous woman.

R184 Janet could have played Dorothy Dandridge in the 1990s. She looks so much like her especially during the Carmen Jones era. Janet was supposed to play Lena Horne in some biopic but Janet looks nothing like Lena. Hollywood always does that though like Chadewick Boseman (RIP) as Thurgood Marshall. Alicia is who should have played Lena.

At R193, I don't think that's Whitney's hair. (I think it's extensions.) At R196, yes, that looks like Whitney's hair.

[quote][R184] Janet could have played Dorothy Dandridge in the 1990s. She looks so much like her especially during the Carmen Jones era.

Her “Twenty Foreplay” video, in which she portrays Dandridge, was basically an audition for the role. During that time, she was in talks for obtaining the film rights but Halle Berry scooped them up first.

She posed for a series of photos around the same time where she was made up by Kevyn Aucoin as Dorothy.

I think it didn't help that Halle was Hollywood's it black girl at the time besides Whoopi and Angela Bassett. Halle was the first one for the sex symbol or action heroine parts. Janet couldn't compete with her despite having a close resemblance to Dorothy. That said, Halle was great in the role.

Lovely.

Both pretty woman who went for ugly, worthless men.

This is Mariah with here 11 yo twins last night. Her daughter will be beautiful when she's older.

Thanks to Mariah's ex-husband, her kids have 10+ half-siblings from multiple baby mothers. I wonder how she really feels about that.

They are both attractive but Whitney was beautiful.

[quote]Who was more beautiful in their prime: Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey? Who would you say?

I would probably say who was more beautiful in 'her' prime, OP.

Did Whitney ever have surgery done to her nose and face?

This is supposed to be Whitney's yearbook photo (one of them). I'll assume she didn't have facial plastic surgery before graduating form HS. I'd say she had minimal or no plastic surgery to her face. She may have had Botox or fillers, but I don't see a nose job or an eye lift.

Whitney did have dental surgery to fix her drug damaged teeth.

If only Whitney got with a handsome, educated black men. She really went after a hood trash like Bobby. Bobby had an awesome body and charisma but facially he was quite ugly and he's an awful person. Mariah chose garbage men like Tony Motolla (though that was to advance her career) and fuckboi, intense breeder Nick Cannon. A lot of women just have no self-esteem.

Whitney had some rough edges herself r212.

R213 I know but she could have married up and married an athlete, an actor or CEO. She chose a trashy dude from the hood already had kids as a teen. But I find women who have deadbeat or absent fathers tend to go after the worst men as Freudian as that sounds.

She dated Football player Randall Cunningham for a while. Don’t know what happened there…

Whitney had some good chemistry with Franklyn Seales when she guest starred on Silver Spoons. Though he was gay and she was lesbian-leaning bisexual, he would have been a good beard when she was seeing girlfriends. Ricky Schroder's methhead self said he made out with Whitney, yeah right.

Schroeder is a goddamned liar.

Whitney reportedly dated Jermaine Jackson too. They had some really good duets, this one being one of my faves.

There is no comparison. Facially, Whitney was a classic beauty. She had one of the best smiles ever. I’m surprised she was never hired for toothpaste commercials.

The better question, OP, is who was prettier (never beautiful) in her prime before the plastic surgery: Mariah Carey or Ariana Grande?

I kinda imagine if Whitney had ended up with Jermaine, he'd probably be controlling and make her be a housewife or something while he tried to compete Michael (and failed miserably). She'd probably do the acting gig a lot sooner too but she likely wouldn't have died as a cokehead in a tub.

Many peeps have always thought Whitney was a man. I truly think he was.

R191: it is interesting Whitney didn’t ever really do the long straight hair thing. The closest she got to it was the Bodyguard era and the Run To You video. She did look stunning and some other wigs from that time really highlighted her beauty. Then a year or so later they pretty much all detracted from it till she died.

I hated the afro wigs she wore in the My Love Is Your Love and I Learned From The Best videos in 1999.

R219, I recall seeing her in a toothpaste ad in EBONY…but that’s all.

Of course now I can’t find the damned thing.

Lil' Kim

I guess Whitney is the winner

Sad that Whitney likely not be a superstar today because she was a brown-skinned West African beauty. Something happened in the early 2000s where they decided to push light-skinned or ambiguous looking girls who can't sing on key to the front.

Mariah is a pimped up plain Jane. No where near beautiful. And not an attractive personality. Whitney was very classically beautiful, but strangely not attractive or sexy. It's the lezzie vibes, I guess.

Whitney

Mariah was definitely sexier though. She went the full slutty route in the late 90s and it helped her career as her vocals gain a sharp decline.

Denzel and Whitney looked great together in The Preacher's Wife.

R229: Mariah’s career suffered massively when she went the slutty route. Housewives were her biggest audience at her mid 90s peak and they abandoned her when the clothes started coming off.

We Belong Together got people back on her side in 2005 as it was a great song but she hasn’t sold albums since then.

Clive Davis didn’t want Whitney to be overtly sexual. He wanted her to be safe and acceptable to the white mainstream. So beautiful she was, but her image was kinda sexless.

I hate Clive Davis.

I really can't see Whitney as being sexy even without Davis involved. I liked her album with Babyface, I'm Your Baby Tonight. She should have made more music with him. She could have had Toni Braxton's songs. I heard Whitney was also supposed to record Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas as well

Are either of these ladies homophobic?

Whit was a voracious vagetarian. She and Bob would troll the lezzie bars looking for fresh lezzie meat to chow down on.

Cyndi Lauper

None

r234 Mariah has always been very gay friendly and had 2 "guncles" her artsy mom was friends with while growing up and they made Mariah fall in love with Christmas each year. Whitney shunned the gays unless they were between her legs licking her pussy.

I blame Cissy partly for Whitney’s fall. She is a homophobic ogress. She was also on the Whitney gravy train too. She locked horns with several people in the biz too, including members of Sweet Inspirations.

Vanity

Cybill

Halle Berry

Whitney Houston

Rihanna

Neither of these women was ever beautiful.

Huh

Rihanna is pretty and fashionable but not beautiful. She and Beyonce are very overrated in the beauty department, both very attractive women but not the goddesses their fans think they are. Whitney is truly beautiful with natural aura, up there with Iman, Naomi Campbell, Vanessa Williams and Angela Bassett. The actress they cast as her didn't capture her aura.

Latoya

Hands down--Whitney. She was gorgeous.

Vanessa Williams

Even out of her prime, Whitney was gorgeous.

I thought she was incredibly beautiful on her final album cover.

^airbrushed to infinity

Neither

A duet album?