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" For Katy Perry, who has over 53 million fans on Twitter alone, fame has no borders \u2014 and her cover on Cosmopolitan doesn&amp;#039;t either. The mega superstar will be featured on every edition of the magazine as Cosmo&amp;#039;s first-ever global cover star. Read her interview with Chelsea Handler and then see some of her international covers below. Give her a song and she sings the hell out of it. Give her a stage and she owns it. Give her a boyfriend and, well ... OK, she battles the same insecurities we all have. Katy Perry, she&amp;#039;s just like us! \u2014 hangovers, heartbreak, anxiety, and all. All right, if there&amp;#039;s anything I know as fact, it&amp;#039;s that while David Hasselhoff is appreciated only in Germany, Katy Perry and her music are loved by everyone, everywhere. My nieces tell me every time they text me that I really need to get it together and hang out with Katy Perry already. When I informed them that I would in fact be speaking with Katy for Cosmo just a few weeks before she starts her Prismatic world tour, my nieces insisted they be there for the interview as well. I gently reminded them of how asinine they had behaved when they met Oprah. They too recalled the incident and instead settled for tickets to Katy&amp;#039;s upcoming New Jersey show ... from Katy herself. Chelsea Handler: Be honest \u2014 how often do you Google yourself? Katy Perry: I go through phases. I wish there was a Google rehab. It&amp;#039;s not that I do it a lot, it&amp;#039;s just when I want feedback on something I did. If I&amp;#039;m putting out a new record or video, I want to feel what&amp;#039;s going on \u2014 take a temperature of the world and see if my ideas are working. I&amp;#039;m very analytical in that way. I&amp;#039;ll check a few websites and my replies on Twitter. I want to hear from the kids who follow me more than I want to hear from some biased, boring, bougie blogger. Sia is a good friend of mine. I know she wrote &amp;quot;Pretty Hurts&amp;quot; with you in mind and e-mailed it to you. Are you bummed it&amp;#039;s Beyonc\u00E9&amp;#039;s hit now? I&amp;#039;d gotten the e-mail; I just overlooked it because I was on tour. When I [finally] heard it, I loved it, so I sent [Sia] a text and she was like, &amp;quot;Check your e-mail, idiot.&amp;quot; And then I felt bad. But as I&amp;#039;ve said, I&amp;#039;m okay, I&amp;#039;ve got songs. It was meant to be for B anyway. Sia says you&amp;#039;re very in charge of your own music. What&amp;#039;s it like when you work together? We are both so headstrong that in the beginning, we bumped heads. I don&amp;#039;t think she was used to someone pulling so much weight. I think she writes with a lot of people who are less involved and less particular than I am. I kind of steamroll the whole session, so we hated each other at first. But now we&amp;#039;re madly in love. She&amp;#039;s full of pure joy. Because she&amp;#039;s sober! That&amp;#039;s the end of my friendship with her. It feels like you&amp;#039;re always on tour \u2014 when I do one, I&amp;#039;m like, OK, not touring again for two or three years. How do you keep it together psychologically and physically? You have to practice self-control, which is one of my least favorite words. I do small things. I cut out dairy. I&amp;#039;m such an almond-milk, cashew-cream type of girl now. What about alcohol? I don&amp;#039;t think I&amp;#039;ve ever had a drink before I got onstage. But I always have one waiting for me when I get offstage \u2014 a glass of champagne. It&amp;#039;s a real dance with the devil, learning how to be professional and have a celebratory time. In your late 20s, you&amp;#039;re trying to figure out what your drinks are and if they agree with you and your blood type. I&amp;#039;ve definitely blacked out on whiskey, so I don&amp;#039;t drink it anymore. Champagne usually gives people a headache, but I can have like five glasses and be completely fine. I&amp;#039;m going to write that book, Drink Right for Your Blood Type. Do you get nervous before a show? Sometimes I get so nervous, I want to take beta-blockers. I took one of those for the first time six months ago. They&amp;#039;re amazing. Yeah. I guess they work for all kinds of performers. But I actually feel most comfortable on tour. I&amp;#039;m more overwhelmed when I&amp;#039;m in front of my peers at awards shows. I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;I can&amp;#039;t sing on the same stage that Beyonc\u00E9&amp;#039;s going to sing on. I can&amp;#039;t do it.&amp;quot; What goes through your head right before you go onstage? That I have to get through this. I can&amp;#039;t let these people down, but mostly, I can&amp;#039;t let myself down. I&amp;#039;ve been given a great opportunity, and there are 500 bitches behind me who will snatch my weave off my head if I don&amp;#039;t kick-ball-change through this two-hour show. There is a lot of choice out there. All I&amp;#039;m trying to do is make great music and bring joy. What&amp;#039;s the most nerve-racking thing about performing? I&amp;#039;ll be nervous that the press will get weird upskirt shots or zoom in on my thunder thighs. Or I&amp;#039;ll trip down some stairs and it will be on the internet forever. But that&amp;#039;s just a part of life. And I think people are OK with that with me. In the &amp;quot;Birthday&amp;quot; video, I look the worst I&amp;#039;ve ever looked. I feel like it&amp;#039;s a happy accident that I can present myself imperfectly. Like when my ex-husband accidentally posted a picture of me without makeup, I was like, &amp;quot;Oh shit! I was making faces for you, not the internet. Take it offline!&amp;quot; But it&amp;#039;s online forever. And in some ways, I felt this huge relief. I didn&amp;#039;t have to be Betty Boop anymore. I was like, &amp;quot;Great! I can go out looking like my little brother if I want to.&amp;quot; Speaking of your ex-husband, I met Russell [Brand] when he was a guest on my show. He had to have three espressos just to come out onstage, so I can&amp;#039;t even imagine ... I guess I happen to be attracted to high-frequency men. You were married to him for 14 months. Then you broke up and started dating John Mayer. These are two men that most people would say, &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re not going to date two people in this world, it should be these two.&amp;quot; What did you take away from your relationship with Russell? It feels like a hundred thousand lifetimes ago, so it&amp;#039;s like digging up an old grave. A lot of therapy has happened and a lot of understanding and growth. Sometimes you have to go through all this shit to get your grips on life and figure out what the next boundaries in your love life are going to be. You have to go through the mud in order to find that peaceful place. In the long run, it was necessary for me to have more of a teammate. What about John? I don&amp;#039;t even feel comfortable calling him by his first name \u2014 you know how I feel about him. Do you think you guys will ever get back together? I know it sounds really hippie-shit, but I&amp;#039;m living in the now and not fantasizing about the future or [being] torn up about the past. I&amp;#039;m super Eckhart Tolle. I have a lot of respect for [John] still, and I know it goes both ways. There&amp;#039;s no bad blood, but I&amp;#039;m sure there will be inspired songs. What is the thing you like most about yourself that attracts a guy? I like when I can really be myself, wear less makeup, have off-color humor right off the bat \u2014 when I can scare them with the truth and they&amp;#039;re not scared. There are no secrets or filters. I think when I&amp;#039;m myself is when I&amp;#039;m probably the most attractive to someone else. What&amp;#039;s the longest you&amp;#039;ve gone without sex? Maybe six months or a year. I don&amp;#039;t stay single for long. I carry a lot of rose quartz, which attracts the male. Maybe I need to calm it down with amethyst. You know a lot more about crystals than I do. Do you have rules for sex \u2014 do you make a guy wait? I&amp;#039;m not like Professor Higgins with my sex life. I&amp;#039;m not super strict. For me, the most important thing about sex is connection. So you&amp;#039;re not into sleeping with somebody you don&amp;#039;t know well? I&amp;#039;ve never been that way. Maybe I&amp;#039;m confusing you with myself. I mean, if I could bottle up oxytocin \u2014 that chemical that&amp;#039;s released when you&amp;#039;re having sex \u2014 and put it in a new perfume, I would do it for sure. I&amp;#039;m down for that chemical. It&amp;#039;s important. I&amp;#039;m going to bottle my own perfume and call it Regret \u2014 it&amp;#039;s going to come out in the fall. It&amp;#039;ll be on the shelf right next to your perfumes, Killer Queen and Purr. You&amp;#039;re also a new spokesmodel for CoverGirl. How involved are you in all your ventures? You&amp;#039;re the boss of everybody, right? Everything goes through me, which is exhausting. I wish I could delegate more, but I think that&amp;#039;s what has gotten me to this place, so I just have to continue this way. Sometimes I get taken aback by my own self-confidence. I&amp;#039;m like, Wait, who am I, in charge of everything and making all these decisions? Do you ever feel completely outside yourself? Yeah, like I&amp;#039;m perched on my shoulder like a little bird going, What?! I definitely feel that way. But I think if all the most confident women got together for lunch, we would all agree that we have one thing or a couple of things that we&amp;#039;re still insecure about. Like me with no makeup or my dancing. I&amp;#039;m not a great dancer, but it&amp;#039;s what pop stars do, right? So I&amp;#039;m doing it. For now. You probably compare yourself to other comedians or artists, &amp;quot;Is my work translating? Is my voice unique enough?&amp;quot; All those things rest upon our heads. We come off as really confident, but there are definitely moments of insecurity, which is normal. It&amp;#039;s healthy to balance it out, because we don&amp;#039;t want to be dictators. Or do we? For more of Katy&amp;#039;s exclusive photo shoot with Cosmopolitan, click here to subscribe to the digital edition! Plus, see some of her international covers below.  Singapore:  South Africa:  Germany:  Vietnam:  Great Britain:  Lithuania:  Australia:  Spain:  Serbia:  Ukraine:  Greece:  For more of Katy Perry, click here to subscribe to the digital edition of Cosmopolitan! Photo credit: Matt Jones "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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