Katy Perry and her mom in late May before the face lift

Katy Perry’s parents are both pentecostal preachers. She had a Christian upbringing and sang gospel music in church as a child. Perry even released a gospel album in 2001 before switching to the pop rock genre that made her famous. You might assume that Perry’s family would not approve of the provocative way their daughter dresses and performs, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. The Sun reports that Katy’s dad was enthusing on the pulpit about the new face lift his daughter bought his wife, and bragging that she now looks like Katy’s sister. They don’t sound like your typical preacher’s family, but they do have a calling. Katy’s dad also vowed to “save” her fiance, Russell Brand.

Rev Keith Hudson spoke about wife Mary’s op from his pulpit and said the results were so good he’s worried she will be mistaken for Katy’s sister.

He said: “My daughter, little Katy Perry, bought my wife a facelift. Hallelujah! My Lord, does she look good. It is amazing what they can do. They took 25 years off her. I am serious – it’s amazing.

“I don’t know how I am going to handle this. I mean, she doesn’t look like her mother no more, she looks like Katy Perry’s sister “It’s going to be difficult because they’re going to say, ‘Who’s this old man with Katy Perry and her sister’?”

Keith and Mary both preach at The Way Family Church in Temecula, California.

Chart-topper Katy, 25, took the stage name Perry after releasing an unsuccessful gospel album under her own name in 2001.

She plans to wed British comic RUSSELL BRAND in India in September.

Lothario Russell, 34, is a practitioner of transcendental meditation, but former hippy Keith believes he can be converted to Christianity.

He admitted: “That Russell Brand – he’s a prayer challenge.

“He is searching for God and that boy is going to get saved.

“If he’s going to hang around us, he’s going to fall in! He’s hungry for God.”

[From The Sun]

Can you imagine how out of control their wedding it going to be? There will be Katy’s side of the family patiently preaching the word to a bunch of amused drunken Brits on Russell’s side.

Katy’s mom and dad are familiar with the debauchery that Brand enjoyed up until he met their daughter. They both partied hard before finding God. Katy’s mom dated Jimi Hendrix and her dad was a drug dealer:

Grace, of the religious kind, was a big part of Perry’s upbringing in Santa Barbara, where she was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. Her parents were pastors, each born again after a wild youth – her mother dated Jimi Hendrix, her father made and dealt LSD with Timothy Leary – and they incorporated Perry, the middle of their three children, into their ministry. She dutifully attended Christian schools and camps and sang in their Pentecostal-leaning church, but at the same time she was what she calls “the black sheep of the family”.

[From The Scotsman]

Now they’re running a church, have a famous daughter, and are opting for plastic surgery. Katy and Russell’s relationship makes more sense to me now, but I doubt it’s going to last. She’s a rebellious preacher’s daughter looking for a bad boy to change and he’s a former sex addict trying to escape his demons. Maybe a religious conversion will help them stay together, but I doubt Brand is up for it.

Here’s Katy out in Paris yesterday, 6/30/10, credit: ANG/Fame Pictures.