44-year-old actress Katherine Heigl appeared on the Monday (Nov. 28) episode of The View to discuss the difficulties of being a working mom.
During the chat, she revealed that when her eldest daughter was a newborn, she never saw her. She was worried she had missed her opportunity to bond with her.
I never saw that baby. I was at work with three triplets who were playing my goddaughter and I spent more time with them than I did with my new daughter and she bonded with my husband. So, I was always afraid that I had missed that opportunity to really bond with her and that she didn’t love me.
Heigl mentioned her husband, Josh Kelley. They got married back in 2007, and two years later, it was revealed they had adopted a baby girl named Naleigh from South Korea.
But less than a year after bringing Naleigh home, Heigl jumped back on a plane to get back to work in Atlanta.
At the time, becoming a new mother, I was just like, ‘I got it. I got it. I can handle this,’ You know, they’ve told us we can have it all. We can have careers and have families and it’s all gonna be great. It’s all gonna work out.
These days, she’s finding a nice balance between her professional life and her mom life, but it took a long to get there.
So if you’re also struggling with finding that balance, don’t get too down on yourself… you’ll figure it out.
