HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Katy Perry was once a married woman. Well, not technically.
The 24-year-old pop star is opening up about the inspiration for her new single, “Waking Up in Vegas,” which originates from a night three years ago that she and an ex-boyfriend staged a wedding in Sin City.
“We went to Vegas on a whim and we decided to get fake married,” Perry tells PopEater.com. We took all the pictures with the minister, with the fake cake, in the fake chapel and got a fake marriage certificate. We went and bought a wedding dress and a suit at a thrift store, and scanned the pictures and the certificate to my family members, my manager at the time [and] totally freaked the s— out of them.”
As well as Perry has done on the music charts, the “I Kissed a Girl” singer calls the stunt one of her shining moments.
“It was the most hilarious, stupid prank I’ve ever pulled,” she says. “I still have the wedding dress and the certificate.”
Perry has proven to be talented in more ways than one, including her stellar reputation for fashion. It’s a craze that isn’t lost on the singer when she’s performing.
“It’s nice to show up at my shows and then see the girls in the front row having their hair cut like mine or having the little embellishments in their hair,” she says. “I was always a very colorful dresser from the moment I could buy my own clothes, even before then. I would always change for breakfast, lunch and dinner.”
While Perry may love to get all dolled up, don’t expect to see her launching a fashion career anytime soon.
“Sometimes you see people that have that taste of success and they try to branch out in so many different directions that you forget what’s the root of it all,” she explains. “And I want people to really know me, first and foremost, as a musician. Maybe in the future. I see how someone like Gwen Stefani did it with L.A.M.B. and I think that’s the right way rather than trying to hawk cheap crap made in sweatshops just because my fame is fleeting or what have you.”
As far as Perry is concerned, taking on too much could get in the way of settling down.
“I plan on having a family one day and maybe not keeping up with all of the glamour,” she says.
