*This* Is Why Katy Perry Doesn't Do Dry January In The Traditional Way

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Katy Perry has been a pop star for a while. And now, she’s ready to step out into the wellness space to empower people.

Last January, she launched the non-alcoholic apéritif brand, De Soi, which she co-founded with Morgan McLachlan. This year, the brand is partnering with non-alcoholic beverage retailer Boisson for Dry January, a time in which Katy enjoys participating.

“My whole purpose in life is to empower, whether that's through my songs or my choices of businesses,” she tells me over Zoom, with Daisy Dove Bloom, her two-year-old daughter that she shares with partner Orlando Bloom, coming in and out of the room.

Take her song “Love Me,” for example. The single from her 2013 album, Prism, is about losing yourself in a partner—and rediscovering your identity to love yourself before you love anyone else. “I have the poetic representation with the lyrics, and then I have something like De Soi, which is like the physical representation of something empowering while still being experiential,” she explains when I mention the song. “Maintaining health and wellness, mind, body, and spirit—that’s my ethos.”

Learn all about how the California Gurl eats and trains every Dry January.

Katy starts her day by getting hydrated.

After waking up—whether in Vegas or not—she drinks a few different beverages (all of which were in front of her during our call). She starts off with Cascade Mountain water, sometimes adding in LMNT hydration salts.

“That is the best way to start, is just to drink water,” she says. “I know it's such a cliché, but I think a lot of us go straight to the coffee without just drinking a glass of water.”

She also drinks a glass of water and apple cider vinegar, or tea with hot apple cider vinegar, usually using Bragg, a company she is an investor in, along with Orlando. “I've grown up with it actually,” she says. If she’s feeling it, she’ll turn to celery juice next.

Lastly, she’ll practice gratitude. “I always start my morning out with a mantra of gratitude, even if I'm in a cranky mood because I didn't get enough sleep,” she said. (It’s especially helpful for this time of year, since she just returned from celebrating Christmas in Japan with her jetlagged family.)

Her meals depend on her work and training schedule.

If she’s training for an upcoming tour or residency, she’ll eat three to five small meals a day. When she eats breakfast, she’ll go for a banana or hard-boiled eggs—"something that is light, but got some kick to start my day,” she says.

For lunch, she goes for protein with a salad or soup, opting for the latter if it’s winter.

She eats dinner, which is sometimes a protein, greens, and soup, or pasta once or twice a week, between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. “I've started eating earlier, which everybody swears by, but that's only because my daughter eats earlier, which is great,” she adds. “I used to go to dinner at eight o'clock and anyone that tries to make [a] reservation at eight o'clock, I'm like, ‘I'm out,’ it's too much.” Honestly, same.

The "Hot N Cold" singer says that she follows a mindset of moderation, which helps relationship with her partner balance out.

“He definitely is very goal-minded about everything with the way he eats and works out,” she says. “I'm probably one-fourth or one-fifth of what he is, so he is super dedicated and I'm more of a maintaining mother.”

Katy's diet and workout routine has changed since becoming a mom in 2020.

Her whole life has changed because of time management. “I wanna give any extra moments I have to being present and being a mother,” she says. Working out “ends up on the back burner here and there” way more than it did before she had Daisy Dove.

Motherhood came at the perfect time for her. “I did it at 35. And I really feel like I checked off a lot of my life boxes and was ready to do that, to be of service as a mother does,” she says. “I've seen so many views of so many different mountains, and this is the best view.”

De Soi helps her stay balanced.

She co-founded De Soi with McLachlan in 2020 while both women were pregnant and wanted a sophisticated drink to help them relax, sans alcohol. The result? A range of drinks made with botanicals and adaptogens.

“The meaning of De Soi is 'pleasure with restraint,' which I love, and that is really a definition for my life,” she explains. “I have no shame, being both into alcohol and also being sober curious as well—I'm a real combination and I think De Soi is great.”

De Soi is for the modern drinker who wants to maintain moderation with alcohol, Katy explains. “When you make a choice to skip alcohol, you don't have to give up the ritual of enjoying something sophisticated,” she adds.

And Katy practices what she preaches. She often does a combination of Dry January and February. (She starts a bit later in January.) “Sometimes when I'm prepping for a tour or album release, I'll take three or six months where I'm not drinking at all.”

Katy keeps workouts fun.

I mean, I don’t blame her…it can be hard to find motivation to exercise sometimes.

“It's not my favorite thing to do with the world—unless I'm dancing or I'm snowboarding or I'm doing something that's kind of masked.” She also enjoys hiking in her free time, and after sitting down with me, she’s excited to go out and play pickleball with friends.

Usually, Katy aims to work out three or four times a week, whether doing weight training, or a candlelight high power fusion core power yoga class, which, yes, she did do last night with some girlfriends. The mental component of working out is extremely rewarding for her. “I sweated the most I've ever sweat,” she says. “We were all texting afterwards and I was like, ‘My mood is unusually happy right now.’”

Training for her residencies isn’t as draining as you might think.

Shocking, right? Well, think about it this way: she does three to five shows a week when she’s on a world tour. Her upcoming Vegas residency, Play, running from February to April, involves fewer shows, giving her more time off.

“It's more manageable,” she says. “But that means also in a lot of ways, I can fall into the pit hole of losing all the muscle or losing all of the motivation or just stamina in the in-between.”

So, Katy has some guidelines having to do with eating, drinking, and working out consistently. For example, she never drinks before a show and she drinks less after shows. “I have so many marks to hit, and so many things that I have to make feel effortless and easy and natural, but they're actually very technical,” she says. “I'm hanging on wires, I'm masquerading as a Cirque de Soleil performer many of the times.”

But she will drink the Purple Lune, her favorite flavor of De Soi, after shows as a tasty alcohol alternative.

“I am a zero to 100 type of girl,” she says. “I lean into the luxury and the pleasure. But then I have to recuperate and take time, pull back, re-energize by feeding myself good things and taking care of myself in certain ways so that I can go back out into the world and ham it up.”

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