- Mary bares a scar near her left eye, but has revealed she doesn't cover it up in photos because it is a part of who she is.
- Mary's sister, LaTonya Blige DaCosta is also a singer and was her former manager before 2003.
- Mary appears and lip syncs in Notorious B.I.G.'s video "One More Chance" even though she does not provide vocals. The female chorus vocals are recorded by Faith Evans.
- Mary has performed "One" with Elliott Yamin during the fifth season finale of American Idol.
- Mary has appeared on the cover of VIBE magazine eight times since 1995, more than any artist in the magazine's history.
- At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, Mary was the artist with the most number of nominations for the year, eight, and winning three: Best R&B Album (The Breakthrough), Best R&B Song and Best R&B Vocal Performance (Be Without You).
- Mary performed "Runaway Love" with Ludacris and also her very own single "Be Without You" at The 49th Annual Grammy Awards.
- Mary appears in Notorious B.I.G.'s videos "One More Chance" and "Big Poppa".
- She is a four-time American Music Award winner and a nine-time nominee.
- Mary has her own label called Matriarch.
- Mary was invited to Oprah Winfrey's Legends Ball in 2005.
- Mary gave a very expensive watch to Ellen DeGeneres on the latter's talk show.
- Mary asked Diddy and Mariah Carey to personally appear in her "No More Drama" video because she felt that they both had their fair share of drama in their lives.
- The title track to Mary's song "No More Drama" samples from the theme song to The Young and the Restless.
- Her mother, Cora Blige, survived a stabbing in 1987 by a neighbor.
- Mary is married to Kendu Isaacs since December 7, 2003. They dont have kids together, but she is the stepmother of Kendu's three children.
- Her music video No More Drama was shot the day right after September 11th, 2001.
- Her hit song and music video Be Without You from her latest double platinum selling album Breakthrough, retired from BET's 106 & Park after 65 consecutive days of being on the countdown.
- Her husband Kendu Isaacs helped her clean up her act and overcome her drug and alcohol addictions.
- She never graduated from high school.
- In 2006, she recieved the "Legend Award" at the World Music Awards.
- Her albums My Life, Share My World, No More Drama and The Breakthrough were all certified 3x Platinum, each selling over 3 million copies in the US only.
- Rapper Lil' Kim is one of her best friends.
- She was a Directory Assistance operator before her singing career, which inspired her to name her first album What's The 411?.
- Discography: What's The 411? (1992), My Life (1994), Share My Wolrd (1997), Mary (1999), No More Drama (2001), Love & Life (2003), The Breakthrought (2005), Reflections: A Retrospective (TBR).
- Mary is a six-time Grammy Award winner and a was nominated twenty-three times.
- Mary J. Blige's album "The Breakthrough" appeared near the end of 2005 and debuted at #1 on the album chart, selling over 700,000 copies in its first week.
- She is recently 5'9".
- Mary: Oprah was like, 'I didn't care for you, but it was when I got to know you that I realized who you were.' Though Oprah is now a friend, Mary is not surprised at her opinion. I understand somebody like her wouldn't even feel me at all. I'm a n*gga, you know what I'm sayin'? So when she said that to me, I was like, 'Thank you for that honesty.
- Mary (On Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnancy): Stay strong, baby girl, if that's her choice [to keep the baby], then congratulations. Hope she's responsible, and I hope she understands what that brings... You have to change your lifestyle up, so [your children] can look at you as an example. It's all about Mommy being an example, Jamie. That's what it's about.
- Mary: The scar on my face, the lips that God gave me, the big giant feet, the long legs, whatever it is that I'm deformed with I got to love it, so everybody else can love it.
- Mary: It almost kills me to say I'm in love, because as soon as men hear that shit, they're gone.
- Mary: I don't know. Only God know's where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.
- Mary: My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block. I don't know what kind of God the rest of y'all are serving, but the God I serve says, "Mary, you need to be the hottest thing this year, and I'm gonna make sure you're doing that".
- Mary: I think Dre is one of the nicest producers I've ever worked with. He has so much class and he's very ego-less and that makes it easy to work with Dre.
- Mary: I honor Aretha Franklin and respect her. I don't know her, but I love her because I look at my life and I see hers.
- Mary: I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.
- Mary: That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.
- Mary: The streets respect me because I kept it real with me. You gotta be real with yourself, and the streets recognize game.
- Mary: When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school.
- Mary: Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, it's more exciting performing live.
- Mary: You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect.
- Mary: I love my fans. I love what I'm doing, period.
- Mary: I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.
- Mary: Everything is scary if you look at it. So you just got to live.
- Mary: You gotta take what you need, love them and respect them, and build your own foundation with it.
- Mary: Don't give up, be positive and if you know someone who knows someone at a record company don't stop beating down their door till you get heard. Don't ever say it'll never happen or it'll never happen.
- Mary: It was great to work with Jay Z again, he's never let me down and given me a whack tune and Eve she's great and I love 50 cent, he's such a genuine person, when I met him I looked in his eyes and I knew that he is a real person and I have a lot of love for him.
