13th Annual ASPCA Bergh Ball - interviews and articles compliation post
There's so many articles and interviews with Kathterine from the Bergh Ball. She talked her family, her love for animals, the new brunette look and her future projects. To avoid spamming you f-pages I'm making this compilation post. Make sure to look under the cut for more articles, interviews and videos!
Katherine Heigl Fears Future Wardrobe Malfunction & Talks New ‘Do
Katherine Heigl admitted she is fearful of having another wardrobe malfunction.
Last month in Las Vegas, while Katherine was accepting the ShoWest Award for Female Star of the Year, Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush had to step in to hold her dress up as she gave her acceptance speech, after the strap on her red gown broke. As a result, in New York City on Thursday evening, as she prepared to accept an ASPCA Award for her work saving dogs, she told Access about how she now double checks her outfits.
“I’m really, really paranoid now after that,” the actress laughed. “Every outfit I put on, I’m like, ‘Is it all in place?’ Scary.”
As for last night’s event, where she received the Presidential Service Award, honoring her work with animals, Katherine admitted she’d like to take another pet home.
“My husband will kill me,” she said of her main squeeze, musician Josh Kelley, who is living life with his two ladies - Katherine and their daughter Naleigh - and six dogs. “I’m really trying to talk him into one more. Maybe he’ll watch all these interviews and get it.”
Katherine has more time for family now too - and that potentially seventh dog - having recently parted ways with ABC drama “Grey’s Anatomy.”
“I am really excited to be spending more time with my family,” Katherine said. “It’s been an amazing few months and we had all this beautiful time up in Utah at our second home, which is so peaceful and relaxing and you’re not hounded, you’re not watched, you’re not anything. You’re just a normal family.”
While she enjoyed her time away, Katherine said she is thankful she can come back to LA to work.
“I got to go up there and remember sort of my roots,” she said. “The beauty is that I get to come back to LA and have a career because people are interested and people care, which is a massive blessing on the other end. So, I’m very fortunate, I’m very grateful right now.”
Katherine’s mature outlook is definitely inspired, in part, by becoming a mother to daughter Naleigh last year, but also, her new brunette ‘do.
“I’m really enjoying it,” she said of the hue. “There’s something about it that feels more sophisticated. I feel like a lady. The blonde made me feel more giggly. It’s very odd.”
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Katherine Heigl Fighting for Jewelry
When actress Katherine Heigl has a fight with her hubby, Josh Kelley, she gets beautiful jewelry as makeup gift. Sweet!
"Extra" caught up with Heigl at New York's ASPCA Bergh Ball event, and she showed off her earrings. "We had a fight and he had to make up to me and buy me something nice!" Heigl exclaimed.
The actress was being honored at the event for her charity work with animals. "We were always raised with a lot of animals. Two or three dogs, two cats, hamsters -- sometimes a rat."
Now that she's done with "Grey's Anatomy," Heigl is enjoying her time with her 16-month-old daughter -- except when she manipulates mommy.
"She already knows how to emotionally manipulate me and it's horrible. She's 16 months!" Heigl confessed. "No one has ever dominated me emotionally! It sucks!"
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Katherine Heigl: Life After 'Grey's' is Great
New mom Katherine Heigl was honored by the ASPCA Thursday night in New York City, where she spoke out on life after leaving the ABC hit "Grey's Anatomy."
"Life is great, it's really family oriented right now which feels fantastic, and feels as it should be. She's still so new, Naleigh's still so new in our lives," Heigl said, referring to her infant daughter Nancy Leigh or "Naleigh," whom she adopted with husband Josh Kelley last September.
"They change every month so monumentally that every month she's a new kid. She just started walking this weekend, she started talking more last month, and if I were missing that right now, I would just be devastated," Heigl explained.
Of leaving "Grey's" Heigl said, "I'm gonna miss things for sure, I'm still a working mom, but I'm really grateful that I have the time with her that I do now."
Heigl also commented on her recent change from blonde to brunette, saying that while she's "sure" she'll go back to blonde at some point, "I really love the brunette, I think there's something about it that makes me feel a little bit more sophisticated."
Heigl received the ASPCA's Presidential Service Award at the organization's 13th Annual Bergh Ball, for her work promoting animal rights. "It feels amazing. I'm actually really surprised, but just so grateful that they're honoring me this way," she said of the accolade.
To learn more about the ASPCA, please visit www.aspca.org.
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Katherine Heigl: Motherhood Brings Out My Emotional, Protective Side
As her daughter Naleigh takes her first steps and begins talking, Katherine Heigl is learning a lot too - about herself and motherhood.
“I’m a lot more strict than I thought I would be,” Heigl says, laughing, at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ball in New York.
“I really feel like discipline and manners, a good schedule, a good night sleep and a good nap are really important. I didn’t think I would be quite so like that.”
Heigl, 31, who was being honored at the event for her service to animal rescue, is also surprised to find herself getting emotional while watching a movie or TV show involving a mother-daughter relationship.
“It is so gut wrenching in a way that I could have never predicted,” she says. “You have this empathy suddenly -- this compassion for a mother going through anything complicated or difficult with a child. It’s something that I understand now -- that unbelievable drive and instinct to protect.”
Not that she’s doing it alone.
“I really could not have imagined a better father for [Naleigh]“, she says of her musician hubby Josh Kelley.
“She’s the luckiest little kid. We call him “Disneyland Dad” because as soon as he comes in it’s just fun and happiness - and she rides around the room on his shoulders.”
Adds Heigl: “He’s [also] fantastic with diapers, food, naptime, playtime - he’s got it all.”
Heigl’s mom, Nancy, concurs: “Both her and Josh are wonderful, wonderful parents,” she tells PEOPLE. “They just adore her.”
As for her granddaughter, “Naleigh has a real strong personality,” she says. “She’s really a wonderful little girl. We all squeeze her and kiss her on the cheek. She’s very round and very adorable. She’s almost edible!”
Sixteen-month-old Naleigh, meanwhile, has started to walk and talk on her own. Her first word? “It was ‘hi,’” Heigl says. “And then she would go, ‘Oh yeah!’ all the time. She would be playing with her toys and go, ‘Oh yeah!’ in that inflection. It’s genius!”
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Katherine Heigl Wants a Seventh Rescue Dog
You'd think that with six dogs and a baby at home, Katherine Heigl would be totally stressed out. But the former Grey's Anatomy star is actually clamoring for a seventh rescue pup. "I'm trying to talk my husband [singer Josh Kelley] into one more right now," she tells PEOPLEPets.com exclusively. "But he is not cool with it."
Regardless, the actress is already doing her part to save shelter pups. With the help of mom Nancy, she runs the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation, an organization named for her late brother dedicated to promoting animal welfare and saving pets in need. Receiving honors at last night's American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ball in New York, she told PEOPLEPets.com that the operation is flourishing.
"Right now we have the Heigl Hounds of Hope program, which pulls big dogs out of the shelter and trains them in preparation for adoption," she explains. " A lot of people have a fear of big dogs - they think they're going to be uncontrollable and wreck their houses - so we're trying to encourage people to take them."
She's also launching a new spay/neuter initiative. "There's such an overload of animals in Los Angeles, and ultimately we want to make shelters no-kill," she explains. "The only way to do that is really encourage people to spay and neuter, so we'll provide free services every weekend for a year."
Though Heigl doesn't visit too many of the dogs her foundation aids - "it's really hard to go see them when you know you can't save them all," she says - her mother knows they're making a difference. "We love animals, and Jason had a really compassionate heart," Nancy says. "The foundation really means so much to us."
And they truly keep their dog-loving ways in the family. Heigl says her newly adopted daughter, Naleigh, is "fantastic" with the family pets. "She's just starting to walk, and they follow her everywhere," she says. They also know their big sister is generous when it comes to sharing food. "We give her crackers to eat, and she'll be munching on her crackers and be looking at the dogs. They're just standing there staring at her, waiting, waiting … and then she'll let them have a bite. It's hilarious."
Luckily for Heigl and Kelley, the don't mind the pitter-patter of all those little feet. "We are real homebodies," she says. "The dogs go to the dog park every day so that they can run around, then we hang out on the couch together as a massive family and watch TV. Everyone has their place."
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Katherine Heigl Fears Future Wardrobe Malfunction & Talks New ‘Do
Katherine Heigl admitted she is fearful of having another wardrobe malfunction.
Last month in Las Vegas, while Katherine was accepting the ShoWest Award for Female Star of the Year, Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush had to step in to hold her dress up as she gave her acceptance speech, after the strap on her red gown broke. As a result, in New York City on Thursday evening, as she prepared to accept an ASPCA Award for her work saving dogs, she told Access about how she now double checks her outfits.
“I’m really, really paranoid now after that,” the actress laughed. “Every outfit I put on, I’m like, ‘Is it all in place?’ Scary.”
As for last night’s event, where she received the Presidential Service Award, honoring her work with animals, Katherine admitted she’d like to take another pet home.
“My husband will kill me,” she said of her main squeeze, musician Josh Kelley, who is living life with his two ladies - Katherine and their daughter Naleigh - and six dogs. “I’m really trying to talk him into one more. Maybe he’ll watch all these interviews and get it.”
Katherine has more time for family now too - and that potentially seventh dog - having recently parted ways with ABC drama “Grey’s Anatomy.”
“I am really excited to be spending more time with my family,” Katherine said. “It’s been an amazing few months and we had all this beautiful time up in Utah at our second home, which is so peaceful and relaxing and you’re not hounded, you’re not watched, you’re not anything. You’re just a normal family.”
While she enjoyed her time away, Katherine said she is thankful she can come back to LA to work.
“I got to go up there and remember sort of my roots,” she said. “The beauty is that I get to come back to LA and have a career because people are interested and people care, which is a massive blessing on the other end. So, I’m very fortunate, I’m very grateful right now.”
Katherine’s mature outlook is definitely inspired, in part, by becoming a mother to daughter Naleigh last year, but also, her new brunette ‘do.
“I’m really enjoying it,” she said of the hue. “There’s something about it that feels more sophisticated. I feel like a lady. The blonde made me feel more giggly. It’s very odd.”
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Katherine Heigl Fighting for Jewelry
When actress Katherine Heigl has a fight with her hubby, Josh Kelley, she gets beautiful jewelry as makeup gift. Sweet!
"Extra" caught up with Heigl at New York's ASPCA Bergh Ball event, and she showed off her earrings. "We had a fight and he had to make up to me and buy me something nice!" Heigl exclaimed.
The actress was being honored at the event for her charity work with animals. "We were always raised with a lot of animals. Two or three dogs, two cats, hamsters -- sometimes a rat."
Now that she's done with "Grey's Anatomy," Heigl is enjoying her time with her 16-month-old daughter -- except when she manipulates mommy.
"She already knows how to emotionally manipulate me and it's horrible. She's 16 months!" Heigl confessed. "No one has ever dominated me emotionally! It sucks!"
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Katherine Heigl: Life After 'Grey's' is Great
New mom Katherine Heigl was honored by the ASPCA Thursday night in New York City, where she spoke out on life after leaving the ABC hit "Grey's Anatomy."
"Life is great, it's really family oriented right now which feels fantastic, and feels as it should be. She's still so new, Naleigh's still so new in our lives," Heigl said, referring to her infant daughter Nancy Leigh or "Naleigh," whom she adopted with husband Josh Kelley last September.
"They change every month so monumentally that every month she's a new kid. She just started walking this weekend, she started talking more last month, and if I were missing that right now, I would just be devastated," Heigl explained.
Of leaving "Grey's" Heigl said, "I'm gonna miss things for sure, I'm still a working mom, but I'm really grateful that I have the time with her that I do now."
Heigl also commented on her recent change from blonde to brunette, saying that while she's "sure" she'll go back to blonde at some point, "I really love the brunette, I think there's something about it that makes me feel a little bit more sophisticated."
Heigl received the ASPCA's Presidential Service Award at the organization's 13th Annual Bergh Ball, for her work promoting animal rights. "It feels amazing. I'm actually really surprised, but just so grateful that they're honoring me this way," she said of the accolade.
To learn more about the ASPCA, please visit www.aspca.org.
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Katherine Heigl: Motherhood Brings Out My Emotional, Protective Side
As her daughter Naleigh takes her first steps and begins talking, Katherine Heigl is learning a lot too - about herself and motherhood.
“I’m a lot more strict than I thought I would be,” Heigl says, laughing, at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ball in New York.
“I really feel like discipline and manners, a good schedule, a good night sleep and a good nap are really important. I didn’t think I would be quite so like that.”
Heigl, 31, who was being honored at the event for her service to animal rescue, is also surprised to find herself getting emotional while watching a movie or TV show involving a mother-daughter relationship.
“It is so gut wrenching in a way that I could have never predicted,” she says. “You have this empathy suddenly -- this compassion for a mother going through anything complicated or difficult with a child. It’s something that I understand now -- that unbelievable drive and instinct to protect.”
Not that she’s doing it alone.
“I really could not have imagined a better father for [Naleigh]“, she says of her musician hubby Josh Kelley.
“She’s the luckiest little kid. We call him “Disneyland Dad” because as soon as he comes in it’s just fun and happiness - and she rides around the room on his shoulders.”
Adds Heigl: “He’s [also] fantastic with diapers, food, naptime, playtime - he’s got it all.”
Heigl’s mom, Nancy, concurs: “Both her and Josh are wonderful, wonderful parents,” she tells PEOPLE. “They just adore her.”
As for her granddaughter, “Naleigh has a real strong personality,” she says. “She’s really a wonderful little girl. We all squeeze her and kiss her on the cheek. She’s very round and very adorable. She’s almost edible!”
Sixteen-month-old Naleigh, meanwhile, has started to walk and talk on her own. Her first word? “It was ‘hi,’” Heigl says. “And then she would go, ‘Oh yeah!’ all the time. She would be playing with her toys and go, ‘Oh yeah!’ in that inflection. It’s genius!”
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Click to viewKatherine Heigl Wants a Seventh Rescue Dog
You'd think that with six dogs and a baby at home, Katherine Heigl would be totally stressed out. But the former Grey's Anatomy star is actually clamoring for a seventh rescue pup. "I'm trying to talk my husband [singer Josh Kelley] into one more right now," she tells PEOPLEPets.com exclusively. "But he is not cool with it."
Regardless, the actress is already doing her part to save shelter pups. With the help of mom Nancy, she runs the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation, an organization named for her late brother dedicated to promoting animal welfare and saving pets in need. Receiving honors at last night's American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ball in New York, she told PEOPLEPets.com that the operation is flourishing.
"Right now we have the Heigl Hounds of Hope program, which pulls big dogs out of the shelter and trains them in preparation for adoption," she explains. " A lot of people have a fear of big dogs - they think they're going to be uncontrollable and wreck their houses - so we're trying to encourage people to take them."
She's also launching a new spay/neuter initiative. "There's such an overload of animals in Los Angeles, and ultimately we want to make shelters no-kill," she explains. "The only way to do that is really encourage people to spay and neuter, so we'll provide free services every weekend for a year."
Though Heigl doesn't visit too many of the dogs her foundation aids - "it's really hard to go see them when you know you can't save them all," she says - her mother knows they're making a difference. "We love animals, and Jason had a really compassionate heart," Nancy says. "The foundation really means so much to us."
And they truly keep their dog-loving ways in the family. Heigl says her newly adopted daughter, Naleigh, is "fantastic" with the family pets. "She's just starting to walk, and they follow her everywhere," she says. They also know their big sister is generous when it comes to sharing food. "We give her crackers to eat, and she'll be munching on her crackers and be looking at the dogs. They're just standing there staring at her, waiting, waiting … and then she'll let them have a bite. It's hilarious."
Luckily for Heigl and Kelley, the don't mind the pitter-patter of all those little feet. "We are real homebodies," she says. "The dogs go to the dog park every day so that they can run around, then we hang out on the couch together as a massive family and watch TV. Everyone has their place."
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