Katherine Heigl blogs about “failing my daughter”
In her first blog for iVillage, Katherine Heigl opened up her “two great loves” — acting and motherhood, and why she felt at one point she was “failing” her now 3-year-old daughter, Naleigh.
The former Grey’s Anatomy star wrote, “I have always known I wanted to be a mother… I have also always known I wanted to be an actress. From the moment I walked onto my first set when I was 11 years old, I knew I had found my passion.”
However, she added merging these two loves posed a challenge: “I could not have known when I was 10 years old holding other women’s children and playing the greatest game of make-believe on earth that I would one day have to reconcile my two great loves.”
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She continued: “I didn’t realize that having it all would not look and feel as I imagined… I went into it full throttle, ready to buckle down and make it all work seamlessly as I always imagined I could. The thing is I couldn’t.”
She added, ” No matter how great my intentions, how lofty my goals, how passionate my commitment, I was failing. I was failing my work, I was failing my daughter, I was failing my husband. I was stressed out and exhausted. I was worried and afraid it was all slipping through my fingers no matter how tight my grip. I couldn’t appreciate or enjoy the moments with Naleigh because I feared they weren’t enough for her and knew they weren’t enough for me. I couldn’t enjoy the work because I was so distracted by the little being in my trailer waiting for me. I couldn’t help but wonder what I had gotten myself into and if the choice I made to be a working mother was the most selfish decision of my life.”
Find out how Katherine came to terms with being a working mom at iVillage.
