It is fairly well known that Katy Perry was raised in a strict, Christian home and actually started out life as a Christian music artist under her real name Kate Hudson. Perry is now famous for her hedonistic lifestyle, skimpy outfits and sexually provocative dance routines, and in a recent interview with Vanity Fair she explains why she has not adopted the faith her parents brought her up in.
According to Perry, she found her childhood way too strict and constraining. She says the only book her mother ever read to her was the Bible and that listening to non-Christian music was not allowed.
“I didn’t have a childhood,” lamented Perry, who also explained she was very relaxed and tolerant about faith matters these days, including the fact her husband Russell Brand is into Hinduism.
“In my faith, you’re just supposed to have faith. At this point, I’m just kind of a drifter. I’m open to possibility,” she said.
“I come from a very non-accepting family, but I’m very accepting,” the pop singer added.
“Russell is into Hinduism, and I’m not really involved in it. He meditates in the morning and the evening and I’m starting to do it more because it really centers me. But I just let him be him, and he lets me be me.
“My sponge is so big and wide and I’m soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded.”
Perry admitted her parents are disappointed with some of her lifestyle choices, but says they don’t try to interfere too much.
“We coexist,” said Perry. “I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.”