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Today there are as many meanings of the word “family” as there are families. Welcome to the new normal.
December 2010
“Three or four days before I traveled to Atlanta to shoot Life as We
Know It, I became Naleigh’s mother,” Katherine Heigl says. “I was about
to play a woman who inherits a baby, and I was experiencing the same
things as my character. I didn’t really want to let Naleigh out of my
sight, but it’s not terribly realistic to have a baby in a trailer 12 to
14 hours a day.” Naleigh, who was born in Korea with a congenital heart
problem that was corrected through open-heart surgery before Heigl and
her husband, Josh Kelley, adopted her, joins a particularly close
family. Heigl’s mother, Nancy, has been her manager since she began
acting as a child (who can forget Heigl as the teenage sex-bomb alien on
Roswell?) and now coproduces her films. “My sister, Meg, is Korean,” the
actress says. “I hope, one day, she and Naleigh will be able to talk
about what it’s like to be adopted.” In the meantime Naleigh has to
adjust to her siblings—Heigl’s six dogs. “I knew there was no way in
hell I was going to get rid of any of my dogs to make room for a baby,”
Heigl explains. “Naleigh loves them. Sometimes it reminds me of The
Jungle Book. I’m like, Oh, my God—she’s being raised by animals.”
December 2010
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