She also had an older brother, Gaston, a paraplegic who died in 1995.
Mariah, 21, from the US, encourages her self-proclaimed bestie and mother Sandra, 45, to dress half naked and embrace her sexy side in tonights episode of TLCs sMothered.
Her father, Robert Lauer, who owned a wine store in Saarbrücken, is French and her mother, Karin ( née Eltern), who worked in a shoe store, is German.
