Who do you think you are fooling? Mariah Carey busted trying to pass off 1997 photo as current

She undoubtedly look great for her age – but not this great.  Maria Carey  was left red-faced on Friday after she was busted posting a photograph  from 1997 to her Twitter followers alongside a message that she was spending time with ‘dembabies’. The happy snap shows Mariah, who celebrated her 44th birthday in March, relaxing in a white vest top, her tanned skin on display.

‘Quality time with #dembabies…so much happiness!!’, she wrote.

Rewind seventeen years, and that same youthful picture of Mariah was broadcast on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, when Mariah was just 27.

Buzzfeed called out the Hero songstress when they spotted the similarity.

‘That first photo of Mariah looks pretty familiar,’ the website wrote. ‘Oh, that’s ‘cause it appeared in a 1997 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.’

And here’s one you may have seen earlier: The original 1997 picture was first shown on an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show