Mariah Carey, who frequently describes herself as “eternally 12,” told Oprah Winfrey she can now wear her high school wardrobe.

“My jean size went down to my 10th grade size,” the 38-year-old revealed Monday.

“I got tired to people telling me, ‘You need to lose weight,’” she said. “It inspired me.”

“For me, it’s not about a number on a scale,” she added. “It’s not about necessarily even a size. It’s about feeling good and being comfortable in your own skin. Right now, I feel really great. I feel better than I’ve ever felt.”

With the help of a diet and nutrition guru, the singer has maintained a very strict diet that limits foods cooked in butter.

Her most coveted indulgence? Mac and cheese.

“It broke my heart… That’s the thing that I have difficulty letting go of because that’s comfort food,” Carey said. “So basically I’m uncomfortable.”

Carey – who just celebrated her 18th No. 1 single – has also credited her personal trainer for her new physique.

“I don’t know why everyone thinks I lost 30 pounds,” she told Allure. “This trainer has actually helped me reshape my arms. That’s where I gained most of my weight: upper body. That’s just one thing you have to lose weight for.”

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Mariah Carey will soon be debuting a new album but for now she’s happy to debut a slim, new look.

“My secret is bleak diets,” the singer told reporters at VH1’s Save the Music gala at Lincoln Center in New York on Thursday night, looking noticeably svelte in a figure-hugging purple gown.”I still feel like I have a way to go.”

But there’s no chance of Carey, 38, losing her womanly curves. “I don’t feel like you have to be a size zero. We should all just embrace who we are physically,” she said. “I’m not supposed to be a stick figure girl. It’s just not me.”

Last year, the singer first confessed her “bleak” diet consisted of “basically soups and fish prepared really blandly.” And Carey couples the nutrition plan with arguably the most well-traveled trainer in town.

“I have a wonderful trainer whose name is Patricia, she lives in St. Barts, poor girl,” she said. “People say, ‘Only you would fly someone from St. Barts to New York to work out.’ ”

Carey added, “We do water aerobics mostly.”

Source: People