Watch out everyone – Mariah Carey is getting all broody and wants to make Nick Cannon a dad!

The secretly married newlyweds have made no secret of their desire to start a family. "I couldn't imagine anybody that I've ever met being a better dad," she tells Elle magazine.

Carey admits that when she gets pregnant, she will put her career on hold and step out of the public eye for the sake of her kids, saying "You can get caught up in Hollywood-land or celebrity-land, and that's maybe not the best thing for kids, 'cause they didn't ask for it," she says.

"I really feel like it's very important to be responsible and to think, 'Well, maybe if I do this it's not the best thing for my child.

"You have to take a backseat a little bit, and as someone in the public eye, you're not used to doing that."

Er, what happened to the diva in her, she sounds pretty reasonable! Check out her cover shot below: