Mariah Carey has confessed she has four clothes closets.

The singer, who showed off her lavish New York apartment on MTV show 'Cribs', has revealed there was more storage space that viewers didn't see.

Mariah said:

I have four closets if you count storage. I live on three floors of a block in Tribeca, so I have space.

There's one for lingerie, a shoe closet I designed with the architect Mario Buatta, and a pretty area for clothes with moving wardrobes and a bunch of shelves where I do fittings with stylists.

The closets are a big part of my life, it sounds obsessive - and it is pretty fabulous.

The 'Glitter' star also revealed she always knew she was destined to own a lot of shoes.

She said:

When I was 17 I had to wear my mother's shoes and my feet poked through them. It was a really snowy winter and I thought, 'One day I'm going to have so many shoes.'

The money thing was weird. I went to bed poor and woke up rich.