Katy Perry Talks Bibles and Boobs in Vanity Fair

Looking every bit the part of a well-endowed pin up girl, Katy Perry graces the cover of Vanity Fair's June issue and is spilling on her lack of a childhood, complete trust in hubby, Russell Brand, on what legume she modeled her career after.

"My career is like an artichoke," Perry told Vanity Fair. "People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side [of me] that people didn't know existed."

But one thing that wasn't so buttery and delicious was Perry's childhood. She describes her born-again religious upbringing as more than a little limiting -- she wasn't even allowed to say the words 'deviled eggs' or 'Dirt Devil.'

"I didn't have a childhood," she said.

Or at least she didn't have a childhood that was supported by her parents. But Perry's parents aren't still the bible thumping teachers she grew up with -- instead, she believes that they grew with her, developing a more understanding mind set together.

"We coexist," she said. "I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me. We agree to disagree."

But her parents knew this day of mutual respect and success would come.

"The Lord told us when I was pregnant with her that she would do this," Perry's mom told Vanity Fair.

But Perry's parents had one more shock coming. In October of 2010, Perry married Hindu-dabbling, crude comedian, Russell Brand.

"I have always been the kid who's asked 'Why?'" she explained. "In my faith, you're just supposed to have faith. At this point, I'm just kind of a drifter. I'm open to possibility ... My sponge is so big and wide and I'm soaking everything up and my mind has been radically expanded."

A sponge that has also soaked up a complete trust in hubby, Brand -- even if the media would rather see the couple on the outs than in total bliss.

"The press is just not your friend when it comes to a marriage," Perry said. "That's why we didn't sell the pictures of our wedding, and we got offered millions of dollars for them, millions."

And it's Perry's complete irreverence for the media that has landed her at the top of the charts time after time.

"I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music."

But Perry knows that fame is fleeting and intends to go out with a bang when her final stage left exit does come. And her departure from this world is no different -- the 'Firework' singer wants her ashes to be shot into the sky over Santa Barbara in (you guessed it!) a firework.