Katy Perry‘s “Teenage Dream” is a middle-aged nightmare for her evangelistic mom — who complains in a book proposal that, “no mother wants to see the top of her daughter’s boobs.”
As we reported last week, preacher Mary Perry Hudson has been shopping a proposal on how her daughter’s racy lyrics, “foul-mouthed fiancé” — now husband Russell Brand — and suggestive outfits have affected her Christian ministry.
GALLERY: KATY’S CONTROVERSIAL CLEAVAGE
In the full proposal obtained by Page Six, she describes her horror at Katy’s outfits: Backstage at a concert, “Katy stepped out from behind the changing doors in a tiny risqué costume. No mother wants to see the top of her daughter’s boobs . . . My first instinct was to order her back behind those doors and demand she put something else on . . . However, I had no problem letting my eyebrows say what I wouldn’t allow my mouth to utter.”
Mary also writes that she hopes Katy is destined to be a worship leader — “a Kathryn Kuhlman type of healer . . .
“I recognized the psalmist gift in her performance. Yet she sang out, ‘I kissed a girl, and I liked it,’ while thousands joined her. One part of my heart soared . . . the other part broke for the thousands of hungry souls being fed something that didn’t nourish their spirit, but fed their flesh.”
Mary compares her mother-daughter relationship to the conflicts between Billy Ray Cyrus and Miley Cyrus, and Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie, “whose children have risen to fame and live contrary to their parents’ beliefs.”
Mary also frets, “Oh, dear God, how can I save her from all this? The money, the fame, the network, the people surrounding her, how can I compete?”
She also sets out: “This memoir is . . . not Christian proselytizing or a Katy Perry tell-all.” But in a note about target markets, she writes, “Fans of Katy Perry and Russell Brand will flock to the bookstores to snatch up a copy . . . either through curiosity or obsession, to get a glimpse of their stars through Mary’s eyes.” A rep for Perry didn’t get back to us.