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Post by Admin on Jul 1, 2020 19:52:38 GMT
Katy Perry is getting real about mental health. In a new interview on Friday (June 26), the pop star opened up finding hope after going through some dark times back in 2017.
"I lost my smile," the singer said told host Tom Power of Canadian radio show Q on CBC. "I don't know if my smile was ever fully, like, authentically mine but I was riding on the high of a smile for a long time. Which was the validation, love, and admiration from the outside world, and then that shifted."
According to Perry, the change was two-fold, precipitated by a break-up with her now-fiancé Orlando Bloom and the disappointing response to her 2017 LP Witness.
"My career was on this trajectory where it was going up-up-up-up-up-up-up, and then I had the smallest shift; it wasn't that huge, maybe, from an outside perspective, but for me it was seismic," she explained. "It literally kind of broke me in half. I think I had broken up with my boyfriend, who's now my baby daddy-to-be. And then I was excited about flying high off the next record and the record didn't get me high anymore...The validation didn't get me high, and so I just crashed."
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Post by Admin on Jul 2, 2020 19:20:56 GMT
Orlando Bloom has been quarantining with his pregnant fiancée Katy Perry as they await their new bundle of joy, and as expected, the actor is blown away by the pop star's strength. "Aside from the giant belly, you wouldn’t know [she’s pregnant]," Bloom told the Associated Press. "She's a force of nature, obviously, as we all know. But it’s been really impressive. There’s no complaining. She’s just all about it. It’s pretty awe-inspiring to see the way she handles herself at this time. It’s just business as usual." "I would say I have five good days and two days where I just, I cry when I look down at my toes or I cry when just doing simple tasks," Perry recently said of being pregnant during a pandemic in an interview for SHEIN Together, a virtual event to benefit the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization (WHO). "I also think a lot of that is probably hormonal." http://instagram.com/p/CAB5d3dJzQ5 "And I'm not used to being around so many people all in a confined space for so long," she continued. "I'm used to kind of going all the time. I like my own kind of alone time, and there's not really anywhere to go for that besides my car. I go to my car a lot -- it's parked outside my house."
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Post by Admin on Jul 20, 2020 19:17:13 GMT
Joining the Kyle and Jackie O Australian radio show virtually on Sunday, Perry, 35, talked with the radio hosts about an array of topics relating to her pregnancy and how she's doing as she anticipates the arrival of her first child with Orlando Bloom next month. Showing off her growing baby bump in a crop top promoting her upcoming album, the "Firework" songstress revealed that she currently weighs 190 pounds and shared that she is at the stage during her pregnancy where "everything is swollen." "My hands are swollen, my feet are starting to swell," Perry said, before adding that she wears sandals everywhere she goes. "It's starting to get to that point." She continued, "I’m really grateful for my body and I have so much respect for other women going through this process. You get a whole new viewpoint being pregnant." "I'm a very active woman and an active mom and during this time of COVID — and quite frankly an American revolution — I have been also putting out songs and heading towards putting out a record," Perry said. "I'm working really hard. The one blessing is I don't have to travel extremely, which can really take it out of you." Perry — who previously referred to her daughter as "Kicky Perry" during a chat with Hits Radio — also noted that she'd be surprised if her child wasn't lively and energetic, sharing that the DNA between her and her fiancé is so similar that her daughter would likely be the same. "The DNA between the both of us is very high energy, so we'll be surprised if she's a lazy one," she explained. "But she'll be what she is, and I'm sure she's just here to teach us a lesson."
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2020 5:31:17 GMT
The 35-year-old songstress didn't hold back during a candid interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday. During their conversation, Katy opened up about her strong relationship with fiancé Orlando Bloom, how she overcame her depression while making her new record, mending her friendship with Taylor Swift and so much more.
Moreover, the "Teenage Dream" singer shut down rumors surrounding her wedding to the 43-year-old actor, and shared a brief update on her pregnancy. Hint: Katy and Orlando's baby girl is expected to arrive any minute.
This will mark the couple's first child together. He's already the proud father to 9-year-old Flynn with his ex-wife, Miranda Kerr.
While the songstress has long been honest about her mental health struggles and one-of-a-kind romance to the Lord of the Rings alum, Katy gave her fans an even closer glimpse into her life.
On Orlando Being the "Only One" to Handle Her Moods:
"He's the only one that could handle it and that's why we're in this position," she explained. "I showed him all of it. And I still test him and he still shows up and he still is not phased by it and that's why he is perfect for me—because I'm a lot!"
On Being a "Mom on the Move" Right Now:
She shared, "I am a 'mom on the move,' as I say. I think my fans see it, that I'm really doing the work for this record. Once the record comes, once the baby comes there will be a transition. I'm not just sitting around."
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Post by Admin on Jul 22, 2020 7:42:40 GMT
On Her Wedding and Rumors About Having Two Ceremonies: "We cannot plan anymore in 2020, because those plans are always canceled," she quipped. "I honestly, never heard of the other wedding, I only knew of one wedding. Of course, that will come in the future, but for now, we want to deliver a healthy child. And that's what's coming up." On Becoming "Super Friendly" With Taylor Swift After Their Feud: "Gossip and lies, they take the elevator. But truth takes the stairs... Time will tell my story," she described. "What I'm so grateful for is that we did get to make up and we made up publicly to be an example of redemption." Katy added, "It's hard for young girls growing up [with] cliques and high school and pettiness and all that stuff. Now we're super friendly. I've always wanted the best for her and we can talk about the best we want for each other." On the Timing Of Her New Album: "This record has been interesting to put out because it's during these Looney Tunes times, it's during a pandemic, a racial revolution, an election year and I'm delivering a baby at the same time," she expressed about her upcoming album, Smile, which drops Aug. 14. The 35-year-old star also pointed out how criticism of her 2017 album, Witness, impacted her mental health. "I've always had a playful thing about my music and I lost that... I had really lost my smile," she said. "You create art and you're excited for it to be received by the world. When it's not received by the world, when it's kind of like, 'No, thank you,' you think, 'Oh s--t, that doesn't feel good.'" On Her Struggles With Depression While Making Smile: "It was more than I had ever faced in my life. I'd had bouts of depression before, but I had been able to avoid falling into the really dark depression by making music," she explained. "It's like all these things you do to distract, you eat, you work you get a new boyfriend, you shop." Katy added, "I was so ashamed about being on medication because I was like... 'I wrote 'Firework.' But it was one of those things where I'd sprained my brain a little bit."
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