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Katherine Heigl: 'I was failing as a mother and an actress'
Published Tuesday, Jan 10 2012, 10:53 GMT | By Daniel Sperling | 1 comment
Katherine Heigl has admitted that she was "failing" as both a mother and an actress.
The Knocked Up star has begun to scale back work commitments in order to dedicate more time to Naleigh, the daughter she adopted with husband Josh Kelley.
"I could not have known when I was 10 years old holding other women's children and playing the greatest game of make-believe on Earth that I would one day have to reconcile my two great loves," she wrote on iVillage. "I didn't realise that having it all would not look and feel as I imagined.
"No matter how great my intentions, how lofty my goals, how passionate my commitment, I was failing. I was failing my work, I was failing my daughter, I was failing my husband. I was stressed out and exhausted. I was worried and afraid it was all slipping through my fingers no matter how tight my grip.
"I couldn't enjoy the work because I was so distracted by the little being in my trailer waiting for me. I couldn't help but wonder what I had gotten myself into and if the choice I made to be a working mother was the most selfish decision of my life."
Heigl added that she finally realised a change was needed as she "constantly beat [her]self up for "compromising" both of her passions in life.
"I began to understand that the blessing and the curse were one in the same, that nothing great comes without a price," she said. "Now when I take a job, I look my daughter in the eye, screw up my courage and try to explain to her that Mommy has to go to work... [that] work makes me a better person, a better woman, a better mother.
"Then I pray to God that she will understand one day and that my example will encourage her to find and follow her bliss as well… after I've paid for all the therapy, of course."
Heigl recently revealed that she wants to have more children with Kelley, who she married in December 2007.
The Knocked Up star has begun to scale back work commitments in order to dedicate more time to Naleigh, the daughter she adopted with husband Josh Kelley.
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"I could not have known when I was 10 years old holding other women's children and playing the greatest game of make-believe on Earth that I would one day have to reconcile my two great loves," she wrote on iVillage. "I didn't realise that having it all would not look and feel as I imagined.
"No matter how great my intentions, how lofty my goals, how passionate my commitment, I was failing. I was failing my work, I was failing my daughter, I was failing my husband. I was stressed out and exhausted. I was worried and afraid it was all slipping through my fingers no matter how tight my grip.
"I couldn't enjoy the work because I was so distracted by the little being in my trailer waiting for me. I couldn't help but wonder what I had gotten myself into and if the choice I made to be a working mother was the most selfish decision of my life."
Heigl added that she finally realised a change was needed as she "constantly beat [her]self up for "compromising" both of her passions in life.
"I began to understand that the blessing and the curse were one in the same, that nothing great comes without a price," she said. "Now when I take a job, I look my daughter in the eye, screw up my courage and try to explain to her that Mommy has to go to work... [that] work makes me a better person, a better woman, a better mother.
"Then I pray to God that she will understand one day and that my example will encourage her to find and follow her bliss as well… after I've paid for all the therapy, of course."
Heigl recently revealed that she wants to have more children with Kelley, who she married in December 2007.
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