Katherine Heigl She is embracing her life as a perimenopausal woman who has already experienced the height of her career – and she is not afraid to show her.
“I wasn’t thinking (aging) in my 20s, right, not? In the 20s, I was at the height of my career, and I was doing all the roles I had always wanted to do,” Heigl, 46, said exclusively The weekly On Thursday, May 1, about her success after her broken role as Izzie Stevens Gray anatomy. “I started as a children’s actor, but with the time I got into the middle teens until late, you know, I was dying to be romantic superiority.
Heigl said the main film roles in Crashed, 27 dresses, The ugly truth AND Life as we know it came quickly and enraged in the middle of it gray Fame, but that she admitted that she would not “be awakening forever”.
“When I was 40 years old, I realized,” Oh, this is over a lot. “And not to say that I can’t be romantic direction in something in 46 – that women in their 40s do not have a romantic love life or that they are not funny or that you know, they can’t be the direction of a story. Of course they can. I am still the star of my life.
She added: “So it’s not to say, like,” Oh, you can’t do it anymore. “It will be very different.
Heigl noted that her latest role in Netflix LANE It was a great project after showing the stories of two middle -aged women, Blly (Heigl) and Kate (Sarah Chalke).
“I love these two women and I loved they were in their 40s (and was) an important part of the story,” she said. “You have to see that trajectory of their lives as young women until the 40s and their 40s. And it’s so nice to have a woman’s story in that way.”
She mentioned, however, that the portrayal of a college student in the show was a little less-gray.
“It was a little nervous,” she said. “I was about 40 when we started trying to play, like, at one point, I think they had played 19 in college, and I was like,” I think it’s pushing the envelope a little. “Like, I have a CGI, but … 19 is different emotional. Like, I’m harsh.
As a brand ambassador for Poise, Heigl aims to break the shame and isolation about aging – namely the pelvic floor issues associated with perimenopause, menopause and childbirth. At least 50 percent of women experience bladder leaks, such as “deception drills”, Heigl being one of them.
“There was a little hesitation, for sure, because basically you are, telling the world about your personal, perimenopausal journey, you know? And I’m like,” Do I want everyone to be aware of what my body is doing? “But then I just felt like, I know because of my girlfriends, my sister.” I just decided that I don’t want to pretend that these things are not happening to me in order to appear, like, I am what? Forever, eternally youth? That’s meaningless. ”
Katherine Heigl with her daughters Adalaide and Naleigh.
Katherine Heigl/InstagramHeigl said she cares about her skin, tries to stay capable and has gratitude as a working mother. She shares three children – Naleigh, 15, Adalaide, 13, and Joshua, 8 – with her husband, singer Seduce. Coupleifi adopted their daughters respectively in 2009 and 2012, and Heigl gave birth to their son in 2016.
She admitted that pregnancy changed her body-mostly leaving it with a scarf of section C that it is called “bun my hot dog”.
“I left without signs of stretch, but I had a caesarean, so I have this scar that created this kind of bumps there,” she added. “Looks like a small bun of hot dogs in my lower belly that will be there forever now. And I think I was like, no one told me it would happen, everyone acted as a caesarean scar would be nothing, and that you would never see it, you would never notice it.
Famous mothers are becoming increasingly open to their pregnancies – and have begun to share their post -birth bodies on social media. “So amazing what we (mothers) can do,” titled Bekah Martinez Bekah Martinez of Bachelor Nation A Mirror Selfie on Instagram in February 2019 after greeting her first child. “I’ve never felt so much respect and love (…)
The actress said that those intrusive thoughts do not do any good as she tries to remember what she really represents.
“I had to do a bad kind and be like,“ What are you talking about? It was so much worth, “she said.” I think you have those days where you beat yourself and think, “Oh, I wish I look like I was when I was 25.”
“Our respect for ourselves must be primary,” she concludes, mentioning how important it is for children to see and appreciate the changing bodies of their mothers. “But yes, I mean, I’m not a perfect person in the way I, every day, wake up and think,” I’m fantastic, look good. “As, I have bad days.
