爱思英语编者按：凯蒂·佩里 (Katy Perry) 由于生活在一个基督徒家庭，因此凯蒂·佩里 (Katy Perry) 从小在教堂里唱歌，听着基督教音乐长大。长大的凯蒂·佩里性格叛逆，毅然不顾父母的反对，坚持勇敢地选择了自己想要的人生道路，成为了美国新晋超人气歌手。对自己的成长背景，她提到最多的便是作为严格基督教徒的父母。在最近的一次杂志专访中，她公开谈到了自己并没有真正意义上的童年。

Staring out seductively from the cover of this month's Vanity Fair, Katy Perry looks sensationally provocative in a tiny, flesh coloured corset.

But she says there was a time when her strict Evangelistic upbringing would have harshly condemned such a sexually-charged appearance.

The E.T singer has opened up about her early family life in an interview with the magazine and has revealed: 'I didn't have a childhood.'

Growing up in a strict Christian household, she admitted:  'I was always scared I was going to get bombed when I was there.'

Changed for the better: Katy with her parents, Mary and Keith Hudson, at her husband Russell Brand's Get Him To The Greek film premiere last year

The 26-year-old explained how her inquisitive side was relentless and says she felt compelled to push the boundaries strict family life.

She said: 'I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?''

She explained: '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.'

The singer says she is constantly learning and will never stop evolving. She said: 'My sponge is so big and wide and I'm soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded.'

Katy has made no secret of her family's strong faith and strict religious values, but she now says that her parent's values have now evolved and they have moved on together a family.

'We coexist,' she said. 'I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree.'

Katy's mother, Mary Hudson, agrees that they have evolved and changed as parents, and this has made Katy's career and relationship with Russell a lot more acceptable in their eyes.

Mary also told Vanity Fair that she and Katy's father, Keith Hudson, had been forewarned about their daughter's future rebellion from their beliefs before she was even born.

Mary said: 'The Lord told us when I was pregnant with her that she would do this.'

And it would seem their change in values was perfectly timed after Katy wed British actor and crude comedian, Russell Brand, last year.

On marrying her former Lothario husband, Katy insists she trusts Russell, 35, completely and doesn't ever listen to a word that is written in the press about them.

She is also happy for him to live by his own values and appreciates that, as a couple, they are individuals with their own separate beliefs.

On making their marriage work, Katy revealed: 'I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting,'

She said: '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.'

She added: 'But I just let him be him, and he lets me be me.'

She also explained how her childhood was denied of any books and that her mother would only ever read her the Bible.