Katherine Heigl, Josh Kelley and their kids forParents.Photo: William Shirakawa for Parents
Katherine Heiglis an open book when it comes to sharing her girls' life stories with them.
In hercover interview forParentsmagazine’s April issue— in which she poses with husbandJosh Kelleyand their kidsJoshua Bishop, 4,Adalaide Marie Hope, 8½, andNaleigh Mi-Eun, 12 — Heigl says that the girls, who are adopted, “have more questions as they get older” about their origins.
“We have said to them, ‘This is your story. We don’t have any information about your biological fathers, but we do have a bit about your biological mothers,’ " theFirefly Lanestar, 42, said of Naleigh and Adalaide.
" ‘If you guys want to talk more about them, you can have as much or as little information as you want,’ " she added of their conversations. " ‘Tell us what you’re comfortable with knowing.’ "
Heigl was “raised with adoption,” having a sister, Meg, who was adopted. And while she feels she was “so naïve” about Meg’s experience when she was younger, “I had to realize, okay, this isn’t about how it makes me feel. It’sabout how I need to protect my daughtersand prepare them for the world, because I can’t change society in one fell swoop.”
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In the meantime, Naleigh is “one of two kids in her grade” at school without a phone of her own, which has been frustrating for the preteen even if her mom insists it’s for her own good.
However, Heigl’s oldest child has “been sneaking my iPad and creating TikTok videos without my permission,” she said. “I know she thinks I’m being a tyrant, but I worry aboutthe effect of social media on kidsher age. I watchedThe Social Dilemma. So I’m like, ‘Go ahead and hate me. I’m trying to save you!’ "
Currently, Joshua is “obsessed with Spider-Man and the Hulk,” while Adalaide is all about the great outdoors. As theGrey’s Anatomyalum joked of her “fearless” middle child, “She’s my pistol, all piss and vinegar.”
“She actually wants to start barrel racing,” Heigl shared of Adalaide’s love of riding horses on their ranch. “And she loves to make Naleigh laugh.”
Katherine Heigl and her kids.Katherine Heigl/Instagram
Heigl admitted she “was so relieved” when shefound out Joshua was a boywhile she was expecting, saying, “It was actually a big reason why I was vacillating between trying to get pregnant or adopting again, since with adoption you can specify the sex.”
“I just thought, another girl could mean lifelong therapy for all of us,” she joked.
As for whether she and musician Kelley, 41, plan to add any more kids to their brood (which also includes five dogs and three cats!), the27 Dressesactress toldParentsthat she initially “thought that we needed one more child to complete this home,” whether it be biologically or via adoption or foster care.
But since theCOVID-19 pandemichit, “I have completely changed my mind,” Heigl said. “I am very content with my three!”
source: people.com
