{"id":30101,"date":"2023-11-17T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=30101"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:05:54","slug":"kat-von-d-on-fire-for-christ-after-conversion-and-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2023\/11\/kat-von-d-on-fire-for-christ-after-conversion-and-baptism.html","title":{"rendered":"Kat Von D \u201con fire\u201d for Christ After Conversion and Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_46256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46256\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/Kat-Von-D-Baptism_credit-thekatvond-Instagram.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46256 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2023\/11\/Kat-Von-D-Baptism_credit-thekatvond-Instagram.jpg\" alt=\"Kat Von D Baptism\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-46256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@thekatvond \/ Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">One month after sharing a <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2023\/10\/kat-von-d-celebrates-baptism-one-year-after-leaving-the-occult-behind.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">video of her baptism<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0on Instagram, Kat Von D is opening up about what her walk with Christ is looking like. Von D recently joined Christian conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey on her podcast, \u201c<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZLfIjbOXgY0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Relatable<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">,\u201d to discuss her conversion and what her life looks like now. Prior to joining Stuckey, Von D, who now attends Switzerland Baptist Church in Vevay, IN, had shared she was unsure about sharing too much publicly about her conversion. \u201cI don\u2019t feel equipped to be the poster child for Christianity. I think that I\u2019m still learning, and as I do, I will become more equipped. But for the time being, I feel like I\u2019ve never really been that, and I don\u2019t plan on doing that,\u201d she\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com\/allie-beth-stuckey-kat-von-d-and-the-benefit-of-not-watering-down-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">shared<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. She did leave open the possibility to being on Stuckey\u2019s show, calling Stuckey a friend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Joining \u201cRelatable,\u201d Von D discussed her upbringing, having been raised by Christian missionaries in Mexico. She rebelled, however, and ran away when she was 14. Previously, Von D had <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/kat-von-d-same-boarding-school-paris-hilton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">shared her experiences<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0after her parents sent her to Provo Canyon School in Utah, which was brought under scrutiny after heiress and reality star Paris Hilton revealed abuses she had experienced while attending the center. Von D stated she had similar experiences to Hilton and that her parents had sent her there after she began listening to punk music. \u201cIt raised a lot of red flags for them, and I think that they were just terrified that I was going down the wrong path. I started tattooing, I dropped out of high school, and I think they just didn\u2019t know what to do with me,\u201d she stated. Her experiences at the center also led to her taking alcohol and drugs, which she would struggle with for years after. Von D did tell Stuckey she has made amends with her family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In her 20s, Von D had a lot of questions and resisted authority, leading her to seek out occult practices such as meditation and witchcraft. \u201cI was just searching for answers and meaning in so many of the wrong places, like most people do,\u201d she told Stuckey. She was able to get sober but still felt non-Christian spirituality was a crutch. \u201cI don\u2019t want these crutches in my life anymore, and that\u2019s what really I saw them as. I just want Jesus, and it\u2019s a very narrow road. I feel like all these other, these breathing techniques, or spell work, nature worship, all these things, they\u2019re just crutches. They\u2019re not really my answer.\u201d After the lockdowns and experiencing BLM riots, she began to reevaluate her life. \u201cI would look around at my Christian friends, and I\u2019m like, they\u2019re not perfect by any means, but I want what you have, you know? Like, I love the light that you have.\u201d That led to her pursuing Christianity more fully. \u201cI\u2019m on fire for Jesus,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t plan on this dimming out. The more and more I learn, the more excited I get about things and the more at ease I am about what\u2019s happening in this world and what\u2019s happening in my marriage, in all of it.\u201d She stated Christianity has helped her to be a better wife and mother. \u201c\u2026it\u2019s like a deprogramming has taken place. Things that I used to find attractive are disgusting to me, you know? And it\u2019s like, I wish I could put into words like how amazing those changes are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Not everything has gone smoothly. Von D shared some people, Christians and non-Christians alike, were critical of her baptism video. \u201cOther people were like, \u2018She\u2019s faking it, this is just for a PR stunt,\u2019\u201d she recalled. Von D\u2019s husband, Rafael Reyes, has also been criticized. Reyes attends services with Von D but has not yet made a decision to follow Christ. \u201cWe go to church together every Sunday; he always supports me, and we pray together. But there&#8217;s part of him that&#8217;s still questioning, and after getting so much grief from people that spilled over into my husband. I remember the next morning, he was like, &#8216;Babe, I don&#8217;t want to be a part of that.&#8217;\u201d Instead of criticism, she asked for prayer. \u201cIf these people genuinely cared about me or my husband, instead of picking us apart or picking him apart, I would hope that you would just pray for us instead.\u201d Please be in prayer for Kat Von D as she grows in her faith and for her husband as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month after sharing a video of her baptism\u00a0on Instagram, Kat Von D is opening up about what her walk with Christ is looking like. Von D recently joined Christian conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey on her podcast, \u201cRelatable,\u201d to discuss her conversion and what her life looks like now. 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