Katy Perry wants to be a mom, regardless of her marital status.
“I don’t need a dude … It’s 2014!” the 29-year-old said in an interview with Rolling Stone. “We are living in the future; we don’t need anything. I don’t think I’ll have to, but we’ll see. I’m not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn’t present himself.”
While the “Birthday” singer doesn’t intend to wait around for the right man, she is going to wait for the right moment to have a child.
“I want to be doing that in the right time,” she said. “And that’s not in the next two years, you know? Maybe it’s in a five-year plan, but I need to really be able to focus 100 percent of my attention on it. I don’t really want to take the child on tour. Not until, like, birth through 5 is over.”
It makes sense that Perry isn’t going to hang her parenting hopes on finding the right man, as her dating luck has been anything but good.
In February, Perry and John Mayer called it quits for good after a tumultuous year-and-a-half relationship. And that started just as the pop star’s divorce from Russell Brand, whom she was married to for 14 months, was being finalized.
Perry also touches on her difficulty in coping with her breakup with the comedian, who broke up with her via text message, in the interview.
“It was emotionally traumatic for me,” she said. “It was the death of a dream. I was in fairy-tale land, and the reality of it wasn’t so. But I don’t really like talking about it anymore, because it feels like a thousand lifetimes ago, and also it makes me look desperate, like I need it for attention.”
She seems over that now, and has come to the realization that she can’t let a relationship determine whether she’s happy. But that hasn’t stopped her from having fun, the singer having most recently been linked to DJ Diplo.