Kate Garry Hudson was 5 years old when Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson was born in 1984.
And while her 2001 Christian debut album was called Katy Hudson, the artist decided that using her mom’s maiden name and going by Katy Perry instead was the move.
Not least because Kate Hudson was more than Almost Famous by then.
“I created this wonderful character called Katy Perry that I very much am, and can step into all the time, but I created that character out of protection,” the “Firework” singer told The Guardian in 2017. “I was scared that if you saw me, Katheryn Hudson, the girl wearing the Bioré strip on my nose, you’d be like, ‘that’s not glamorous.’…I didn’t want to be Katheryn Hudson. I hated that, it was too scary for me, so I decided to be someone else.”
She did want to be Kate Hudson’s friend, though.
“When we text, it’s like, ‘Hudson here,'” Perry said during a SiriusXM Town Hall in 2013. “We are buds and we get along…We stopped going to clubs and we started staying home and having game nights, which is really fun. And she is super cool, she is gorgeous, to die for.”
