A few months ago, we told you that Katherine Heigl decided to move her family out of Los Angeles to a massive ranch in Utah.
Well, how is that decision working out for her? Not bad.
During Thursday’s episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the 44-year-old actress talked a little about the move and how it’s been going.
I think some people are mountain people and I think some people are beach people. I’m sort of a mountain person and have always been that way. And my mom realized, because we went out to LA when I was 17 and hustled and hustled for years, right? And I think she realized at a certain point that I needed somewhere to escape to and kind of clear my head and that grounded me. So we started trying to find, and dreaming about trying to find, that perfect place. And we found Utah and then I started making enough money to be able to afford to that.
So that’s how it all began, and then as she and her husband, Andrew, started spending more and more time in Utah, they thought, “Wait, why don’t we just move here and raise the kids here?’
And that’s what they did, and while it’s the perfect place for Heigl, she does admit sometimes her kids wish they were in a bigger city…
I think it does and for me, for sure, I think my children sometimes wish they were in more of a hubbub exciting city. But I said to them, ‘I understand that you are sacrificing that in some ways but I still think it was the right choice for our family because I am more centered and aware of what’s going on in your life.’ It’s a smaller town, I know who your friends are, who you are spending time with, I know what’s up with school. It’s just easier to keep my finger on the pulse.
Personally, I think it’s a decision they will thank her for later in life. They’ll have plenty of opportunities to move out to a more exciting city when they’re older, and they’ll probably be better prepared for it because they were raised in a “normal” type of atmosphere.
