Katherine Heigl recently shared that she moved to Utah some years ago because she thought it would be a great place to raise her kids. She told “E! News” of Naleigh, Adelaide, and Joshua, “So I felt like I could do it here. I could be more on top of things that scare me, and I could be more on top of the kinds of friends they have and places they’re going, the kind of activities they’re involved in, and what they’re doing on their phones!”
The actress lived in Los Angeles for 20 years while working on her career before ultimately deciding to slow down. She and her musician husband, Josh Kelley, moved to a ranch outside Park City, Utah, after she left “Grey’s Anatomy” in 2010.
She said of her Utah home, “I could kind of decompress and let that hustle part of me go a little bit. I don’t know that in any career, you can ever completely stop hustling, but being able to separate it a little bit and choose those times of hustle versus just being in it constantly was really important to me.”
The family has eight dogs and three cats in their home and chickens, goats, horses and other animals at their ranch. She told the outlet that her kids stay at home when she goes on location for a movie or shows.
“I can’t easily anymore take them out of school systems and put them into whole new cities and environments,” she said. “I had to live with that aspect of what I do for work; I have to leave my family … I call the kids probably two, three nights a week. I’m not FaceTiming every day—I’m at work, having crap cell service or terrible Wi-Fi. You have to be able to let it go. I’m sure I’ll be paying for their therapy and mine,” she joked.
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However, she said when she is back at home in Utah, she is “hyper-focused” on her family. “My manager, my agent, my lawyer, they’re all like, ‘Hey, you should probably read that script we sent you two weeks ago…'” Heigl said. “I’m like, ‘Right, right, right, right…’ I just hyper-focus on the world I’m in now.”
Heigl, who has finished shooting the final season of her Netflix show “Firefly Lane,” said, “At the moment, it’s solely about [her] dog food [brand Badlands Ranch], the children, the animals.”
In 2014, the “27 Dresses” actress told Good Housekeeping she and her husband loved the “quiet life.” She said, “Neither of us likes the traffic and the chaos of Los Angeles. It’s overwhelming.” Heigl and Kelley had their wedding in Deer Valley two days before Christmas in 2010, which she described as “Narnia, a winter wonderland. It was magic.”
She was also raised in the Mormon faith, although she no longer practices it. “That structure and discipline was really good for me,” she said. “I had a childhood that was a childhood. I listened to my parents. I respected the rules.” She added at the time that her daughters loved the ranch. Her son was not born yet. She continued, “Utah is spectacularly beautiful, the people are wonderful and kind, it’s an easy commute from L.A. — and there’s no traffic!”
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