Before she found fame as a singer, Katy Perry was a completely different person.<br /><br />The pop star appears on the May issue of Vogue magazine and she opened up about her religious upbringing and evangelical Christian parents.<br /><br />Perry told the magazine, “The schools were really makeshift. Education was not the first priority. My education started in my 20s, and there is so much to learn still.”<br /><br />The 32-year-old pop star was born Katheryn Hudson and said that her parents carefully sheltered her.<br /><br />Katy explains, “I wasn’t allowed to interact with gay people. Amy Grant was our Madonna. We knew about Madonna and Marilyn Manson because we picketed their concerts.”<br /><br />Katy has come a long way since those days but she says she still feels the impact years later.<br /><br />“My house was church on Sunday morning, church on Sunday night, church on Wednesday evening; you don’t celebrate Halloween, Jesus gives you your Christmas presents” she said. “That was my whole childhood and youth and early teens. I still have conditioned layers dropping off of me by the day.”<br />
