--- title: Katy Perry Doesn't "Need A Dude" to Have A Baby description: Pop singer Katy Perry discusses plans for a child and 'cultural appropriation' in for her Rolling Stone cover story canonical: https://time.com/3063631/katy-perry-baby-rolling-stone-interview/ author: Hannah Goldberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-31T15:55:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:55:45.482Z og:title: Katy Perry Doesn't 'Need A Dude' to Have A Baby og:description: Pop singer Katy Perry discusses plans for a child and 'cultural appropriation' in for her "Rolling Stone" cover story. og:url: https://time.com/3063631/katy-perry-baby-rolling-stone-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d7cc4f0f1a8d6e6/69869decf983e7d0bf04f0f9/katy-perry-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=467&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 467 og:image:height: 263 og:image:alt: katy-perry-rolling-stone og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Katy Perry Doesn't 'Need A Dude' to Have A Baby twitter:description: Pop singer Katy Perry discusses plans for a child and 'cultural appropriation' in for her "Rolling Stone" cover story. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d7cc4f0f1a8d6e6/69869decf983e7d0bf04f0f9/katy-perry-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=467&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Katy Perry Doesn't 'Need A Dude' to Have a Baby > Sponsored content. 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We are living in the future; we don’t need anything. I don’t think I’ll have to, but we’ll see. I’m not anti-men. I love men. But there is an option if someone doesn’t present himself.” Perry also commented on criticism about several aspects of her stage show, including a geisha-inspired American Music Award performance and dancers dressed as mummies with big, fake butts on her current tour. But Perry says none of the costumes are meant to play up racism and cultural stereotypes. “Those girls aren’t African-American,” she told Rolling Stone. “But it’s actually a representation of our culture wanting to be plastic, and that’s why there’s bandages and it’s mummies. I thought that would really correlate well together… It came from an honest place.” But for now, Katy Perry is just going to focus on making music. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3063631/katy-perry-baby-rolling-stone-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3063631/katy-perry-baby-rolling-stone-interview/"},"headline":"Katy Perry Doesn't 'Need A Dude' to Have a Baby","datePublished":"2014-07-31T15:55:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:55:45.482Z","description":"The pop icon opens up to Rolling Stone","url":"https://time.com/3063631/katy-perry-baby-rolling-stone-interview/","keywords":["Living","motherhood","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d7cc4f0f1a8d6e6/69869decf983e7d0bf04f0f9/katy-perry-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Hannah Goldberg","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7d7cc4f0f1a8d6e6/69869decf983e7d0bf04f0f9/katy-perry-rolling-stone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"katy-perry-rolling-stone","caption":"","creditText":"Rolling Stone","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3063631/katy-perry-baby-rolling-stone-interview/","name":"Katy Perry Doesn't 'Need A Dude' to Have a Baby"}}]}] ```