Katy Perry opens up about her strict Christian upbringing and her marriage to Russell Brand in the June 2011 issue of Vanity Fair.
“I didn’t have a childhood,” Perry tells the mag, adding that her mother never read her any books except the Bible, and that she wasn’t allowed to say “deviled eggs” or “Dirt Devil.”
Of her evangelical-minister parents, Perry says, “I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up.”
“Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don’t try to change them anymore, and I don’t think they try to change me. We agree to disagree,” says the singer.
“I come from a very non-accepting family, but I’m very accepting,” she says of her religious beliefs.
Perry says husband Russell Brand is into Hinduism, and although she isn’t really invovled in it, she is starting to meditate more because it centers her. “I’m open to possibility…My sponge is so big and wide and I’m soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded. Just being around different cultures and people and their opinions and perspectives. Just looking into the sky.”
She says their is “never a dull moment” in her marriage to Brand, and that he has “never lied to me once. I trust him; there’s just a level of trust that we’ve built up.”
Perry says she tries to stay focused on her music, knowing that fame is fleeting. She credits Brand for reminding her to “keep the core intact” if she gets distracted by the glamour.
The June issue of Vanity Fair hits New York and L.A. on Thursday, May 5, and nationally on May 10.
photo: Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair