As she is in the midst of promoting “New Year’s Eve” ahead of its December 9th release date, Katherine Heigl landed herself the cover of the January 2012 issue of ELLE magazine.  The 33-year-old actress posed for a classy spread shot by photographer Carter Smith while offering up a candid interview that touches on topics including her career, her family balancing her busy life, her desire to be liked by everyone and moving to Los Angeles with her mother, Nancy.

Speaking about her public perception, the 33-year-old actress admits that she has never managed to truly be America’s sweetheart.  She explains the reason in the cover story for Elle.  According to her, she never really been America’s sweetheart noting that she had it for a second thinking maybe she was and then she opened her mouth and it was very clear she was not.  She said that there is so much of her mother’s caustic, sarcastic, irreverent take on things but she also love and embrace it.  Still, Heigl is not sorry for anything she said since she was just telling the truth.  However, the only thing she regrets is for having said it aloud.  She confessed that she looked at some of what she had to say and she would tell herself to shut up too.

Asked on how does a celebrity manage to have a balanced life in such a hectic world, Heigl said that she take a stress relief formula from Whole Foods noting that she calls them her happy pills.  According to her, it helps her and in fact, she should have taken one that day.  The actress claimed that she done it to herself adding that she has created a chaotic life and then she get on edge because of it.  Even though Heigl became mostly famous for her role in ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, you should know that she is a 20-year veteran in the film industry.  She grew up in Connecticut and in 1996 she and her mother, Nancy, moved out West.  According to Heigl, the first five or six years in L.A. were hard noting that she does not know anybody.  She claimed that she does not meet people going on auditions, because everyone is competing.  So it was just her and her mom.  She said that they watched a lot of Golden Girls and they made dream journals and read The Artist’s Way.

Well, Hollywood life can sometimes be rather challenging and difficult. On dealing with the demands of Hollywood, the actress confesses that she overdramatize and she think everything is at stake — her life, her career, her family, everything is at stake if this movie does not do well.  Speaking about bad press and how much she just wants to be liked, Katherine told Elle that she think it is a female thing noting that she is just that a**hole who really wants everyone to like her, and it is a ridiculous goal and it is an impossible goal.  She added that she however think that if she keep pushing forward and showing herself through and through, they will see her again for what she really am and not what has been sort of spun about her.

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Katherine Heigl is an American actress, who was born on November 24, 1978 in Washington D.C., at the Columbia Hospital for Women to Nancy and Paul Heigl, a personnel manager and a financial executive accountant. She has the combination of German and Irish ancestry and was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Heigl has three siblings and she is the youngest.

Katherine Heigl started her fruitful career as a child model with the Wilhelmina models before she shows some passion to acting. Heigl debuted on the 1992 romantic drama film entitled, The Night. She also starred in the TV series of Roswell, where she portrayed the role of Isabel Evans. She was also included in the casts of the film of My Father the Hero, prior to her appearance on the series show of Grey’s Anatomy. Heigl launched herself as a cover model posing on various publications, which included the renowned Maxim, Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan.

Katherine Heigl accepted a role on the TV thriller called, Ground Zero, which is originally based in the best-selling book of James Mills entitled, The Seventh Power, in year 2001. Heigl starred in the three Tv films, she returned to the Horror film by appearing in the Evil Never Dies alongside Thomas Gibson. She also starred on the 2003 drama TV film of Love Comes Softly, which is said to be for the Hallmark Entertainment.

In year 2005, Katherine Heigl was included in the casts of the series show of Grey’s Anatomy, where she portrayed the role of Dr. Isoble “Izzie” Stevens, her most renowned role. On the same year, Heogle also starred in the independent film of Side Effects, which is a romantic comedy about the marketing and pharmaceutical industry, where she also stands as one of its producer. In year 2006, Heigl appeared in the Judd Apatow comedy film called, Knocked Up. She starred together with Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd as well as the real life wife of Apatow, Leslie Mann.

In year 2007, Katherine Heigl garnered an Emmy Award for the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal as Izzie Stevens in the series show of Grey’s Anatomy. On the following year, Heigl appeared in the film of 27 Degrees together with James Marsden which was released on January 2008. According to the AskMen.com., Heigl was announced as the Most Desirable Woman of 2008. On the following year, HEigl appeared alongside Gerald Butler in the film of The Ugly Truth. She also starred in the comedy-thriller film of Lionsgate called, Killers alongside Ashton Kutcher, which has been released on June 2010.

In her personal life, Katherine Heigl became engaged to the American singer and song-writer, Josh Kelley in year 2006 and tied the knot on December 2007 in Park City in Utah. On the other hand the couple met on the set of the music video for the song entitled, Only You. In addition, Heigl’s brother-in-law is Charles Kelley, who is one of the members of the country music band of Lady Antebellum.

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