Katherine Heigl hasn’t let her kids watch Grey’s Anatomy yet, but Roswell was a go.
“We did watch, as a family, the whole, like, three seasons of Roswell, probably five years ago or so,” Heigl, 46, exclusively told Us Weekly during an interview on Thursday, May 1. (She played Isabel Evans on the show, which ran from 1999 to 2002 and centered on three young human-alien hybrids living undercover in Roswell, New Mexico.)
“That was really fun because I hadn’t seen it since I was like 20 or 21, you know? And it was really fun to revisit that time in my life. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, so many crazy memories are coming back.’ It’s interesting to have yourself sort of memorialized that way in your youth or as a teenager or whatever. You’re like, ‘Oh my God, that’s who I was then. I totally forgot.’”
Heigl admitted that her kids with husband Josh Kelley — daughters Naleigh, 16, and Adalaide, 13, and son Joshua, 8 — have also seen 27 Dresses, but aren’t pushed to watch Grey’s. (Heigl won an Emmy award for playing Isobel “Izzie” Stevens before her departure from the show in 2010 after six seasons.)
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“I’ve said to Naleigh, she’s 16 now, ‘If you want to watch it, you can.’ And she’s like, ‘No, I’m good.’ I’m like, ‘OK, I’d prefer not to watch this with you,’” Heigl explained, noting the sex scenes make her a little uncomfortable. “‘I feel like it would just be so awkward for both of us. There’s a lot of sex in the show and my character’s doing plenty of it. So I’d rather not, quite frankly, but I will if it’s important to you.’ And she’s like, ‘No, I’m good.’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, maybe in your 20s.’
Heigl said her children actually aren’t that interested in her career or watching her on screen.
“Adalaide is very unimpressed with my acting career. She finds it gives her the ick,” Heigl told Us. “No one’s more humbling than a teenage daughter, I’ll tell you that. They’re at those ages where kids can be real jerks, right? And say crappy things. And they asked me like, ‘Well, does it bother you if people tell you you’re a dumb blonde?’ And I was like, ‘No, because I know I’m not.’ And Adalaide went, ‘You’re not a blonde?’ And I was like, ‘No, Adalaide, I’m not dumb,’” Heigl recalled, joking, “No one can humble me faster than that kid.”
Katherine Heigl poses in the pressroom with her Emmy during the 59th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. hoto by Dan MacMedan/WireImageHeigl also noted that her kids, especially Naleigh, have grown up seeing her get a lot of attention — some of it unwarranted — and they’re “put off by it.”
“I think Naleigh’s very protective of me, so she doesn’t like it when people approach me and stuff. But I’ve tried to tell her, like, ‘Listen, I would not have a career if people didn’t appreciate what I do. And so I have to honor that and to be respectful of that. Like, it’s not a bad thing. It’s only bad if they’re really disrespectful or, you know, take just a photo as the opportunity and won’t let me be. That’s a different thing.’ But most people are very respectful, she added, “[they] just want one moment. And I always love hearing that they appreciate the stuff I’ve done. And it always makes my day. So that doesn’t bother me, but I think it bothers them a little bit.”
Heigl and her family moved out of “the wheel of Hollywood” and now reside in Utah, in part, due to the attention she received.
“L.A. is just so centered around the industry that you really can’t go anywhere or do anything without it coming up, without it being a part of your day,” she told Us. “In my early motherhood days of paparazzi everywhere, you just couldn’t escape the spotlight, in a way, or even just constant conversation about work. So how do you find that, like, work-life balance if it’s constantly, all day, every day, what you’re focused on? So moving out was to sort of balance that a little bit better for myself, give myself breaks, essentially, from thinking, ‘Work, work, work, work, work.’”
She told Us she felt the pressure to bounce from project to project instead of enjoying her time as a mom to young children. That’s when Heigl decided to shift her perspective on the “hustle.”
“I wasn’t with my kids, I wasn’t home, I wasn’t getting to participate or make the memories, or I was trying to do it from a distance. Most of everything I do is on location, so I’d have to leave my family behind, or I’d drag them along, but I wouldn’t be there all day. I’d had nannies, and I had Josh, and I just wasn’t participating that much. A I had to ask myself, ‘What do you really want? Do you wanna do two, three projects a year and be trying to juggle all these balls and missing out on so much of your personal life and your family life? What’s the point of making a good living if you can’t live, if you’re only ever working?’ So I had to really have that conversation with myself.”
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The Firefly Lane star is currently promoting her partnership with Poise and speaking out about pelvic floor issues associated with pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause — namely bladder leaks.
“I just think we all need to be more honest about it because I had no idea,” Heigl said of what she calls “the giggle dribbles.” “I didn’t realize all of those changes were going to happen post-pregnancy. I was more prepared for the pregnancy changes, you know, more sort of bracing myself to deal with, say, morning sickness, or hemorrhoids, or whatever, but nobody really talks about post[-baby] and what happens to your body.”
And although her candidness on the topic sort of irks her daughters, Heigl knows that, in the long run, it’ll teach her kids the hard truths about being a woman.
“I just think we should all be a little bit more forthright, even for our daughters’ sake,” she said. “I was thinking about it in terms of like, I’m sure they’re embarrassed that I talk about it so much, but the truth of me talking about it is that now they’re more sort of emotionally and mentally prepared if they choose to have children, or even as they age and go through perimenopause, that these things happen, and they’re just a part of being alive, and there’s no shame in that.”
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