After three years of marriage, Kimberly Perry and Johnny Costello are nonetheless of their honeymoon section.
“We’re totally settled, however it’s not absent of the honeymoon feeling,” Perry, 40, completely advised Us Weekly at CMA Fest on Friday, June 7. “I feel we simply must be actually intentional and we’ve been like, ‘We have to discover some childcare for this weekend And we have to go like be our full selves this weekend.’”
She continued, “We met in a little bit of a fever down in Dallas, Texas and we had been engaged eight months after we met after which eloped to Vegas and I like that spirit about us.”
Perry and Costello obtained married in June 2021 and welcomed son Whit, now 9 months, in August 2023.
“We’re, like, the Bonnie and Clyde, however like who aren’t gonna die within the automobile wreck,” the previous Band Perry frontwoman gushed to Us. “Or [we are like] the Romeo and Juliet, who’re gonna be, like, 90, you realize? It feels very very similar to that wild spirit and we’re making an attempt to maintain that alive.”
That wild streak impressed Perry’s latest tattoo.
“I solely obtained the ‘J’ final November,” she stated on Friday. “Now, I’ll say that he has loads of tattoos on legs and arms, [but] there may be not a Kimberly on him or a ‘Ok’ [initial]. He has his mom’s title tattooed and his grandmother’s and our son was taking a look at these [the other day because] he thinks they’re stickers. I used to be like, ‘Whit, ask Dad, the place Mama’s title is?’ So, he’s gotta get on that.”
Kimberly Perry and Johnny Costello Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Perry is hopeful that Whit “will probably be a rustic artist” and observe in her footsteps.
“I used to be like, ‘It’s your alternative, however nation music,’” she joked. “In all seriousness, he has been very moved by music from the start. I keep in mind when he was perhaps 2 months previous, Johnny was enjoying guitar. He was enjoying this minor-chord tune and Whit began crying, like, he obtained very emotional about it. It touched him very deeply.”
Perry rose to fame in The Band Perry, which she began in 2005 along with her brothers Reid Perry, 35, and Neil Perry, 35. The siblings went on knowledgeable hiatus in March 2023.
“I feel a break within the area has been very nice,” Kimberly advised Us on Friday. “I additionally miss enjoying music with the boys, like, it’s what we’ve identified since we had been youngsters. I feel the cool factor about music today is you’ll be able to go in all of those completely different instructions, do what you’re keen on and let all of it fall underneath the umbrella of Kimberly in The Band Perry, Kimberly [as a] solo [artist].”
With reporting by Jeremy Parsons
