Katherine Heigl looked youthful in New York City on Thursday.
The 44-year-old actress was svelte in a hot pink tailored dress and high heels as she walked into the Today show to talk to Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush.
The blonde TV and movie star, who currently resides in Utah with her husband Josh Kelley, 43, and kids, was talking up her dogfood line.
‘Swapping Hollywood lights for starry Utah nights! Had a blast chatting with @HodaAndJenna about raising my kiddos on our ranch, the rock that is my mom, and our newest furry-friend venture: @Badlandspets dog food!’ she wrote on X.
This comes after she admitted in June that she was on a soapbox during her Grey’s Anatomy days.
She doesn’t age: Katherine Heigl looked youthful in New York City on Thursday
Happy: The 44-year-old actress was svelte in a hot pink tailored dress and high heels as she walked into the Today show to talk to Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush
While on Today she focused on family life in Utah.
Heigl said that in LA she ‘hustled for years’ before her mom suggested they move out of California to get ‘grounded.’
Katherine ‘saved up money’ to build houses that would be for ‘vacation’ purposes, but they started spending ‘more and more time there’ as it was so relaxing.
Her husband, musician Kelley, loved it too.
Now it feels like the ‘perfect place’ to unwind, added the 27 Dresses star. And her children like the location even though it is not an exciting city.
‘I am more centered and aware of what is going on,’ in a small town said the Knocked Up actress.
And being in Utah keeps her ‘finger on the pulse’ of what her kids are up to.
Katherine’s mother was with her in the Today studio. Heigl said that she owes her career to her mother. ‘I feel so guilty in a way that I had that and so many young actresses don’t have that support,’ she said.
New life: The blonde TV and movie star, who currently resides in Utah with her husband Josh Kelley, 43, and kids, was talking up her dogfood line
X: ‘Swapping Hollywood lights for starry Utah nights! Had a blast chatting with @HodaAndJenna about raising my kiddos on our ranch, the rock that is my mom, and our newest furry-friend venture: @Badlandspets dog food!’ she wrote on X
News: She said her eldest daughter is now a freshman in high school
A full house: The star has three children with Josh and several dogs
Her mother gave up everything for Heigl, she said.
And Heigl said she did not know what would happen to her if she went to LA alone.
‘You don’t know how to say “no” when you’re young,’ said Katherine adding it is just ‘hard’ to stand up for yourself when you are a young actress working in Hollywood.
She added she has a freshman in high school. ‘It goes so fast,’ she said, adding you can hold onto it only so much.
In June she talked Grey’s. Heigl departed back in 2010 following rumors of on-set feuds and a reputation for being ‘difficult’ to work with.
Addressing her controversial departure, Heigl said: ‘I was so naive. I got on my soapbox and I had some things to say, and I felt really passionate about this stuff,’ Katherine said. ‘I felt really strongly. I felt so strongly that I also got a megaphone out on my soapbox. There was no part of me that imagined a bad reaction.
Darling dress: While on Today she focused on family life in Utah. Heigl said that in LA she ‘hustled for years’ before her mom suggested they move out of California to get ‘grounded.’ Katherine ‘saved up money’ to build houses that would be for ‘vacation’ purposes, but they started spending ‘more and more time there’ as it was so relaxing
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All good: Her husband, musician Kelley, loved it too. Now it feels like the ‘perfect place’ to unwind, added the 27 Dresses star. And her children like the location even though it is not an exciting city
Mommy: Katherine’s mother was with her in the Today studio. Heigl said that she owes her career to her mother. ‘I feel so guilty in a way that I had that and so many young actresses don’t have that support,’ she said
‘I felt really justified in how I felt about it and where I was coming from. I’ve spent most of my life — I think most women do — being in that people-pleasing mode. It’s really disconcerting when you feel like you have really displeased everybody. It was not my intention to do so, but I had some things to say, and I didn’t think I was going to get such a strong reaction.
‘I was in my late 20s. It took me until probably my mid- to late-30s to really get back to tuning out all of the noise and going, “But who are you? Are you this bad person? Are you ungrateful? Are you unprofessional? Are you difficult?” Because I was confused! I thought maybe I was. I literally believed that version, and felt such shame for such a long time, and then had to go, “Wait. Who am I listening to? I’m not even listening to myself. I know who I am.”
Pompeo, 53, offered: ‘You were just a little early, because they came out with this thing where everybody has their own megaphone and they get a blue check. It’s called Twitter. You were just a little ahead of your time, lady.’
Katherine also described how the ‘confidence’ she got from starring on the hit show led to her getting ‘mouthy.’
‘I got on my soapbox’: Heigl and Ellen Pompeo reflected on Heigl’s controversial departure from Grey’s Anatomy during their Variety’s Actors on Actors segment
‘Then Grey’s hit, and the success happened. I think that gave me this confidence that was a false sense of confidence. It was rooted in something that couldn’t and maybe wouldn’t always last for me. So then I started getting real mouthy, because I did have a lot to say, and there were certain boundaries and things that I was not OK with being crossed. I didn’t know how to fight that.’
But Pompeo defended Heigl and acknowledged her co-star was placed in a difficult position.
‘But also, can I mention the incredible amount of attention that you got very quickly is another thing that is like a disease in this town. Everybody gets built up, built up, built up, built up. They create this thing, and then almost wait for something to happen,’ Pompeo said.
‘As an outsider looking in, I saw a lot around you that wasn’t anything to do with you, or your fault. Not many people would know how to react to that much attention, that much focus, that much pressure. Who can be the most gracious, perfect person when all that’s … Certainly, some people are capable of it. OK, Zendaya is capable of it,’ Pompeo added.
Pompeo, meanwhile, is only now leaving the show after 18 years playing Meredith Gray, a character she is ready to part ways with.
‘I’m happy to let that go’: Pompeo, meanwhile, recently left the show after 18 years starring as Dr. Meredith Grey, but said she was ready to bid farewell to her character
‘I’ve been on the show so long, I’m happy to let that go. We’re past that point. I think it’s OK for Meredith to stop making bad decisions. One of my frustrations is the Nick and Meredith of it all,’ she said, when asked if she would be taking any of Meredith with her after filming.
‘Scott Speedman plays Meredith’s love interest, Nick Marsh, and I love Speedman. Somehow, Meredith can’t figure out how to make a relationship work, still, after all this time. I felt so happy to be able to step away, and I felt like I accomplished something incredible. Everywhere, as I’m sure everywhere you go, people just run up to me and say, “I love you!” It’s weird and strange, but it’s just love coming at me.’
Grey’s Anatomy debuted in 2005, and since then a whole new generation of fans have discovered the show.
‘What I find disconcerting is how young those people are that are coming up now. Like, “I don’t think you were alive when we started it,”‘ Katherine said.
Not long after giving birth to son Joshua, Katherine recalled how she was mistaken by a young fan as the mother of her Greys Anatomy character.
‘I had just had Joshua. I was in the liquor store — I needed some wine. And this man comes up to me and goes, “Excuse me. I’m so sorry, but my daughter, she’s freaking out over here. Would you mind talking to her for a minute?” And I was like, “Sure. Come on over, honey.” She goes, “Do you know ‘Grey’s Anatomy?’” And I was like, “I do. Yeah.” She goes, “Do you know Izzie Stevens?” And I go, “Yes, I do.” She goes, “Are you her mother?” Thankfully that hasn’t happened again.’
