It’s no secret that Katy Perry’s mum, evangelical Christian preacher Mary Perry Hudson, is less than impressed by her daughter’s image, but now she has revealed exactly what she has an issue with.
In a proposal for the book she is planning to write about her daughter’s career, Mary said she has a problem with her daughter’s cleavage being on public display, the New York Post reported.
“No mother wants to see the top of her daughter’s boobs,” Mary wrote about Katy’s suggestive outfits that she says have affected her Christian ministry.
In the proposal she explained her horror when she once saw Katy backstage at a concert.
“Katy stepped out from behind the changing doors in a tiny risqué costume,” Mary wrote in the proposal.
“No mother wants to see the top of her daughter’s boobs … My first instinct was to order her back behind those doors and demand she put something else on … However, I had no problem letting my eyebrows say what I wouldn’t allow my mouth to utter.”
She says she also has issues with Katy’s racy lyrics and her “foul-mouthed” husband, Russell Brand.
Mary said she was in two minds when Katy’s career first took off and while she could have become a church leader due to her following, the singer’s lyrics weren’t quite what she hoped for.
“I recognised the psalmist gift in her performance,” Mary wrote. “Yet she sang out, ‘I kissed a girl and I liked it’, while thousands joined her. One part of my heart soared … The other part broke for the thousands of hungry souls being fed something that didn’t nourish their spirit, but fed their flesh.”
Comparing their parent-child relationship to the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus, and Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie, Mary said she can’t compete with the money, the fame, the network and the people surrounding her daughter.
She reportedly makes it clear in the proposal that “this memoir is … not Christian proselytising or a Katy Perry tell-all”, but a note about target markets.
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