Mariah Carey wants Nick Cannon to be a model

Mariah Carey sure seems to have taken her role of domineering wife to heart. Since she and husband Nick Cannon got married after only dating a few weeks, Mariah has been controlling his life and using him as her personal errand boy, if you believe a lot of the published reports. She has long been said to be displeased with Nick’s career. Well, “long” in terms of the course of their relationship. Mariah seems to think Nick should give up on his singing and acting career and become a model.

Love might be blind, but even smitten newlywed Mariah Carey can see that her husband Nick Cannon could use a little help getting a job.

“Mariah wants him to at least have the status that DJ AM had when he was dating Nicole Richie,” says a friend of the singer, who spoke to Life Style magazine.

Cannon, who starred in “Drumline” and more recently “Roll Bounce” with fellow rapper Bow Wow, has been working DJ gigs lately but Carey thinks Cannon is capable of much bigger fame.

“She wants him to start modeling,” says the source. “She wants him to start meeting with well-known designers.”

Cannon reportedly is OK with Carey’s involvement in his career. “He’s not upset; he thinks it’s a great idea,” the source reports. “He knows Mariah wants him to become more famous.”

[From MSNBC’s The Scoop]

I’m not sure if this applies to male models, but for female models starting out at the age of 27 is a little late. Certainly not impossible though, and Nick does look a few years younger than his age. And he’s reasonably famous, so it doesn’t sound out of the realm of impossibility. But you’d think if that’s what his passion was, that’s what he would have been doing. It kind of sounds like he’s abandoning his real goals – singing and acting – for a career Mariah thinks will be a sure thing.

Various reports say he’s okay and totally not okay with Mariah’s meddling. She certainly knows something about resurrecting a career, and if Nick wanted guidance in that arena she’d be a good person to go to. It just isn’t clear whether or not he’s asked for Mariah’s input, or if she’s forcing it on him.

Here’s Nick at the DJ booth at the opening of Christian Audigier The Nightclub in Las Vegas on July 4th. Header of Mariah and Nick leaving Mr. Chow’s restaurant in L.A. on July 18th. Images thanks to WENN.