A complete timeline of Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom’s relationship and long-term engagement

Both stars posted the same close-up couple shot on Instagram, featuring a massive flower-shaped pink diamond on Perry’s left ring finger.

Bloom wrote, “Lifetimes,” while Perry captioned her post, “full bloom.”

Perry’s mother posted (and later deleted) photos of the couple apparently at a Valentine’s Day-themed engagement party. “Look who got engaged on Valentine’s Day!!” she reportedly captioned the images on Facebook.

Three months later, Perry shared details about the elaborate proposal during an interview with Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.

“It was Valentine’s Day and I had to work that day,” she said. “I just remember meeting him at dinner at this place, this Italian restaurant, because when I get a pass, I just want to stuff my face with pasta.”

“So I get there and, I mean, he’s like clean-shaven. He’s not wearing tennis shoes. I’m like, ‘Ah shit, something is going down!'” Perry continued. “I got on a helicopter and he asked me to marry him, and then we landed on this building and then went downstairs and my family and friends were there and the most flowers you’ve ever seen.”

August 2019: Bloom said they’re in no rush to tie the knot

“It’s important to me that we are aligned — I’ve been married and divorced and I don’t want to do it again,” Bloom said during an appearance on Today. “And we’re both fully aware of that. She’s remarkable and so I’m always so impressed with that and I’m encouraged.”

January 2020: Perry opened up about their relationship and called Bloom ‘an anchor who holds me down’

In her Vogue India cover story, Perry described Bloom as “very real.”

“He’s not the number one fan of Katy Perry, but he’s the number one fan of Katheryn Hudson,” she told the magazine.

“Orlando is like a sage. When we first met, he said we would pull the poison out of each other, and we really do,” she continued. “It’s exhausting, but we really hold each other accountable. I’ve never had a partner who was willing to go on an emotional and spiritual journey like Orlando. It’s challenging, because you’re facing all the things you don’t like about yourself. It’s like a never-ending cleanse.”

March 5, 2020: Perry revealed that she was pregnant with the couple’s first child

Perry revealed her pregnancy in the music video for a new song, “Never Worn White.”

“I’ve never worn white / But I’m standin’ here tonight / ‘Cause I really wanna say ‘I do,'” she sings in the ballad, which nods to how she wore a gray wedding dress when she married Russell Brand. 

After the music video launched, Perry confirmed her pregnancy during an Instagram livestream and said she’s due summer 2020.

“There’s a lot that will be happening this summer,” Perry said. “Not only will I be giving birth, literally, but also figuratively to something you guys have been waiting for.”

That “something” turned out to be Perry’s sixth studio album, “Smile.”

April 3, 2020: Perry revealed she and Bloom were expecting a daughter

The couple apparently threw a gender reveal party in early April. Perry posted a photo of Bloom’s face, covered in what looks like pink icing.

“It’s a girl,” she wrote.

May 15, 2020: Perry released ‘Daisies,’ hinting at the name of their unborn daughter

Perry released “Daisies” as a single from “Smile.” The music video features a visibly pregnant Perry, walking through fields of flowers and exploring nature.

“They said I’m going nowhere, tried to count me out / Took those sticks and stones, showed ’em I could build a house,” Perry sings in the chorus. “They tell me that I’m crazy, but I’ll never let ’em change me / ‘Til they cover me in daisies, daisies, daisies.”

August 2020: Perry discussed their ‘spiritual’ connection again

In an interview with The Times of London, Perry said she and Bloom are bound together by “spiritual evolution.”

“He’s very sensitive. Very emotionally evolved,” she said. “He gets up at 7 a.m. and chants for an hour. One of the things that binds us is our desire to be more spiritually evolved? And our desire to investigate that realm? One of our main love languages is the spiritual evolution.”

“We love mysticism, conspiracies, aliens, all that stuff. We love an adventure of the mind. That’s definitely something we are bound by.”

August 26, 2020: Perry gave birth to their daughter, Daisy Dove Bloom

As Goodwill Ambassadors, Perry and Bloom’s birth announcement was posted by UNICEF on Instagram. The post was shared alongside a donation page to “help every mother and newborn get the care they need.”

“We are floating with love and wonder from the safe and healthy arrival of our daughter,” the couple told UNICEF.
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“But we know we’re the lucky ones and not everyone can have a birthing experience as peaceful as ours was,” they continued. “Communities around the world are still experiencing a shortage of healthcare workers and every eleven seconds a pregnant woman or newborn dies, mostly from preventable causes.”

“In celebration of the heart we know our daughter already has, we have set up a donation page to celebrate DDB’s arrival. By supporting them, you are supporting a safe start to life and reimagining a healthier world for every child.”

October 7, 2020: Bloom gushed about their daughter on ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’

“It was funny because when she first came out I was like, ‘Oh it’s me it’s a mini-me!’ Then, fortunately, she got those Katy blues which was perfect,” Bloom told Ellen DeGeneres.

The actor, who practices Buddhism, also told the talk-show host that he begins every morning by chanting and Daisy “soothes a bit” when she hears his voice.

“She responds very nicely,” he said. “It’s like I’m a baby whisperer. I’m definitely winning daddy points.”

January 13, 2022: Perry said that Daisy is ‘a combination of both me and her father’

Perry gave an update on motherhood during an interview with People.

“Daisy is great,” she said. “She is a combination of both me and her father, which we are fearless with lots of chutzpah and just big characters. So the combination of us both is definitely coming out.”

She added: “It’s amazing to see everything new again through a toddler’s eyes.”

February 8, 2022: Perry said the coronavirus pandemic had prevented their wedding

During an interview with Australian radio hosts Kyle and Jackie O, Perry said the couple originally planned to get married in Japan in 2020, but it was postponed due to the pandemic.

“It’s a destination location,” she said. “We’re still trying for it to work out.”

She added: “Every couple of months it’s like, ‘New variant! New variant! New variant!'”

August 2, 2022: Perry hinted that she wants to have more kids with Bloom

When People asked if Perry sees more children in her future, she replied, “I’m a planner,” adding, “So we’ll see.”

The chart-topper had previously told Chelsea Handler that she didn’t think she’d become a mother until she met Bloom.

“I wasn’t very maternal and I think that probably stems from some childhood stuff,” she said during an episode of Handler’s podcast.

“Orlando, I got to see what a great dad he was with his first child, Flynn,” she continued. “So that definitely, primally influenced me — something inside of me said, ‘You, mid-30s. This man is nice. Must breed. He is a kind man.'”

February 2023: Bloom said their relationship can be ‘really, really, really challenging’

For the March 2023 cover of Flaunt, the actor discussed challenges that he and Perry face, describing her as his “baby mama and life partner.”

“We’re in two very different pools,” Bloom told the magazine. “Her pool is not a pool that I necessarily understand, and I think my pool is not a pool that she necessarily understands.”

Bloom added: “Sometimes things are really, really, really challenging. I won’t lie.”

August 8, 2024: Perry released ‘Lifetimes,’ a song inspired by their daughter

Perry released “Lifetimes” as the second single from her seventh album, “143.” She said the song was inspired by her 4-year-old daughter.

“It is funny how sometimes you’re looking for your soulmate in a partner. It could be a dog, your mum, your best friend, your cat. But for me, it came in the form of Daisy,” Perry shared during a listening event, per People. “I wrote ‘Lifetimes’ about her.”

“Every night, before we go to sleep, I say, ‘I love you,'” Perry continued. “Then I ask, ‘Will you find me in every lifetime?’ and she says, ‘Yes.'”

The song title may also be a nod to Bloom; it’s the same word that he used in his Instagram caption when announcing his and Perry’s engagement.

September 4, 2024: Perry opened up about the ‘work’ they do in their relationship

During an appearance on Alex Cooper’s podcast “Call Her Daddy,” Perry gushed about Bloom and credited The Hoffman Process, a weeklong therapeutic retreat, with repairing their relationship after she initiated their 2017 split.

“He went there, and then he came back, and he wasn’t playing this cat-mouse game anymore with me,” Perry said of Bloom’s experience. “And I was like, ‘This is boring. I’m moving on.’ I was so used to this push-pull… I was playing games. ‘Cause it was a dopamine hit, right? It was what I knew.”

“I had a really tough year and I finally went to Hoffman towards the end of that year that we were separated,” she continued. “And then I got the tools and spoke the same language. And it changed my life. It saved my life.”

Perry added that she and Bloom go to couples therapy on a regular basis, praising Bloom for being steadfast and supportive during low points in her life.

“It’s been different layers. The more we do the work, the more we find the next level,” she said. “And sometimes we get stuck, and we’re like, ‘OK, let’s go in to do the work and this is going to be annoying, and I don’t want to do it. We don’t have the time. I’m tired.’ But we’re gonna do it. And we find the next level. That’s why we’re continuing in the relationship.”