Katy Perry Opens Up About Her New Life as a Stay-at-Home Astronaut

Katy Perry Opens Up About Retiring from Music to Be a Stay-at-Home Astronaut

Pop sensation Katy Perry has retired from music to embrace life as a “stay-at-home astronaut,” she revealed in an interview on her website, appearing in an astronaut suit on her sofa, clutching a daffodil. The 40-year-old, known for hits like “Teenage Dream,” said her lifelong fascination with space, fueled by her 2010 song “E.T.,” drove her to this pivot. Perry has transformed her Los Angeles home into a “personal space station,” where she conducts daily “missions” like monitoring constellations through a telescope and teaching her daughter, Daisy, about the solar system, all while grounded on Earth.

Being a stay-at-home astronaut, Perry explained, involves a surreal blend of the cosmic and the domestic—she wears her suit while cooking breakfast, narrates bedtime stories about black holes, and uses a holographic galaxy projector to simulate spacewalks in her living room. “It’s about dreaming big from the comfort of home,” she said, noting the daffodil represents “growth among the stars.” Fans are split, with one X user asking, “Is Katy actually living as an astronaut now?” As Perry trades her mic for a helmet, her new routine of balancing intergalactic aspirations with motherhood has left the world wondering if this is her boldest reinvention yet.