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Mariah Carey tells all to Redbook magazine about stripping down for the holidays, detailing on what she wears and does during the season. "I always get Santa lingerie, even if nobody sees it," she openly admits.

Making the activity as a tradition, she moreover reveals, "[My girlfriends and I] go in the hot tub in our Christmas bikinis, then roll in the fresh snow and jump back in." She then adds that she usually dons "a red bikini with a Santa hat" for the ritual. And for this coming Christmas, she opts to still do the same thing and is feeling sure that her singer husband Nick Cannon will "appreciate it".

Celebrating Christmas with Nick for the first time ever, Mariah tells the December issue of Redbook magazine, "I'm really looking forward to being in love on Christmas. The holidays are always great, but being in love ... is going to be the icing on the cake."

Mariah and Nick, who never confirmed that they were dating, set tongue wagging when they eloped in late April this year. The following month, one of their wedding pictures graced the cover of People magazine with several others were featured inside the publication.

"We really do feel we are soulmates. I never felt a love like this was in the cards for me," Mariah told the weekly celebrity magazine. Cannon then went on adding, "She is beautiful on the outside and 10 times as beautiful on the inside."