'I'm excited for an unconditional love bond': Katy Perry's dreams for motherhood
"I'm excited. Excited for a new adventure, I'm excited for this human to come in and have an unconditional love bond," she said in an exclusive 60 Minutes interview.
On Thursday, Perry and her fiancé, actor Orlando Bloom, announced the arrival of their first child, a daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom.
Perry and her fiancé actor Orlando Bloom announced the arrival of their first child, a daughter named Daisy Dove Bloom Nine
In social media posts shared to the couple's accounts, they gushed over their baby girl:
"We are floating with love and wonder from the safe and healthy arrival of our daughter."
Just weeks before she was due to give birth, Perry told Brown her pregnancy through the rollercoaster of the coronavirus pandemic has been a trying time.
"I feel really strong in this moment but some days I cry, a lot, as anyone does," she said.
"I wouldn't blame all that on hormones. I would blame that, somewhat, on the fact that I've been forced to stand still in one place."
New mum Katy Perry has shared her excitement and pride in becoming a parent. Nine
The arrival of her daughter coincides with the release of another of Perry's 'babies' — her sixth studio album, Smile.
It's a joyous response to the bleakness of COVID times, and was written when Perry was weathering storms of her own.
"I was in a really dark time in 2017 and 2018. I was clinically depressed and couldn't get out of bed and I had to go on a journey to understand why," she told Brown.
US Pop Superstar Katy Perry and reporter Tara Brown in Bright. Nine
Perry's now found love and happiness with Bloom.
"It is a healthy, frictional, very open, very communicated, nothing-is-swept-under-the-mat type of relationship," she said.
"I think if we can get to the end of our lives together, we'll be each other's greatest teachers."
Katy Perry and fiancé Orlando Bloom Getty
The pop superstar has not been afraid to share her most intimate experiences with her fans, famously laying bare the brutal heartbreak of her marriage breakdown to her first husband, Russell Brand.
Perry told 60 Minutes her relationship with Brand, coupled with making it in the music business, was like a tornado, and at a young age, the first kind of breaking of her "idealistic mind".
Now 35 years old, she describes her relationship with Bloom as a "beautiful diamond."
"Dating is different. Weekend lovers, that's fun, that's candy. This is solid. This is like the main course," she said.
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