14 DAY TRIAL // A while back, Katy Perry’s religious mother revealed that she was not ok with her daughter’s saucy stage outfits and even saucier lyrics. In the latest issue of Vanity Fair
magazine, the pop star talks about that, her religious upbringing and how people only think they have her all figured out.
Striking a sultry pose in a beige onesie and the reddest of red lipsticks for the cover, Katy proves she’s as bubbly and open as ever in the accompanying interview.
For starters, she talks about her religious upbringing and the need her parents felt at the time to lead her away from the wicked path she’s now treading on, which makes her say that she “didn’t have a childhood.”
The only book she was allowed to read as a child was the Bible, Katy says. At the same time, her mother made sure the kind of music she makes now was never heard in her house.
This, of course, would explain why her mother continues to feel so strongly about her onstage persona. But Katy insists that things have changed for the better as of late.
“We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree. They’re excited about [my success],” the singer says.
She also reveals that the photo her husband Russell Brand took of her early in the morning and that he then posted on Twitter without her consent, didn’t make her mad at him, as rumors would have it.
Even though she wasn’t wearing any makeup, Katy is adamant she’s not trying to hide the fact that she is, at the end of the day, a real woman, with real women’s problems.
“I didn’t really care. I mean, when I go to rehearsals I look like that. I’m every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am…. You don’t have to wake up looking like, you know, Gisele,” she says.
Speaking of how people perceive her, Katy also stresses that there’s more to herself as an artist than meets the eye – people just have to have patience to discover it all.
“[It’s] like an artichoke,” she says of her career. “People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don’t even know that there’s something magical hidden at the base of it. There’s a whole other side [of me] that people didn’t know existed.”
For more on Katy Perry’s interview with Vanity Fair, please refer here.