--- title: Celebrities Are Making 'If You Don't Love Me At' Memes description: Celebrities like Mariah Carey, Tyra Banks and Paris Hilton are having fun at their own expense with the "If you don't love me at my" meme. canonical: https://time.com/5233526/celebrities-if-you-dont-love-me-at-meme/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-09T20:37:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:51:57.870Z og:title: Celebrities Are Poking Fun at Themselves With the 'If You Don't Love Me At' Meme og:description: From Mariah Carey to Paris Hilton og:url: https://time.com/5233526/celebrities-if-you-dont-love-me-at-meme/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7495e8e99dfef22e/69892d28096a9479716a212e/gettyimages-902438610.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: HBO's Official 2017 Golden Globe Awards After Party - Mariah Carey og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Celebrities Are Poking Fun at Themselves With the 'If You Don't Love Me At' Meme twitter:description: From Mariah Carey to Paris Hilton twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7495e8e99dfef22e/69892d28096a9479716a212e/gettyimages-902438610.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Celebrities Are Poking Fun at Themselves With the 'If You Don't Love Me At' Meme > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 9, 2018 8:37 PM UTC  Mariah Carey at HBO's Official 2017 Golden Globe Awards After Party Mariah Carey at HBO's Official 2017 Golden Globe Awards After Party Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic for HBO  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 9, 2018 8:37 PM UTC The internet’s latest [meme obsession](http://time.com/5193050/big-jacket-fashion-trend-balenciaga-memes/) is so hilarious even celebrities are getting in on the fun. The meme, which riffs on a quote oft (and incorrectly) attributed to [Marilyn Monroe](http://time.com/4346417/marilyn-monroe-time-1956-cover/) that states: “If you don’t love me at my worst then you don’t deserve me at my best,” features a diptych of someone who’s seen better days on the left next to a picture of the same person [living their best life](http://time.com/4431632/rihanna-wine-glasses/) on the right. The meme was made for celebrating people’s come-ups and the inevitability that some days are better than others, so it should come as no surprise that some celebs are taking advantage of their public evolutions and career progressions as a way to have a little fun at their own expense. Mariah Carey would like everyone to know that her best is definitely her _The Emancipation of Mimi_ era. > [](https://twitter.com/MariahCarey/status/983012394304704512) While Tyra Banks proved that she can turn on a smize on even her worst days. > [](https://twitter.com/tyrabanks/status/981984003535196160) The New England Patriots confirmed that Julian Edelman’s glow-up is real. > [](https://twitter.com/Patriots/status/981548854637187073) Paris Hilton revisited her early-aughts self to create her own meme. > [](https://twitter.com/ParisHilton/status/982493476418981889) And Mindy Kaling had the perfect response to a meme that referenced her early days as Kelly Kapoor on _The Office_. > [](https://twitter.com/mindykaling/status/982276432922460162) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5233526/celebrities-if-you-dont-love-me-at-meme/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5233526/celebrities-if-you-dont-love-me-at-meme/"},"headline":"Celebrities Are Poking Fun at Themselves With the 'If You Don't Love Me At' Meme","datePublished":"2018-04-09T20:37:30.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:51:57.870Z","description":"From Mariah Carey to Paris Hilton","url":"https://time.com/5233526/celebrities-if-you-dont-love-me-at-meme/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","viral","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7495e8e99dfef22e/69892d28096a9479716a212e/gettyimages-902438610.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7495e8e99dfef22e/69892d28096a9479716a212e/gettyimages-902438610.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"HBO's Official 2017 Golden Globe Awards After Party - Mariah Carey","caption":"HBO's Official 2017 Golden Globe Awards After Party - Mariah Carey","creditText":"Jeff Kravitz—FilmMagic for HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5233526/celebrities-if-you-dont-love-me-at-meme/","name":"Celebrities Are Poking Fun at Themselves With the 'If You Don't Love Me At' Meme"}}]}] ```