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Katherine Heigl reprimanded her rudely Grey’s anatomy days while we went toe-to-toe with a 10-year-old.
Heigl, 46, worked with Balance for a new commercial in which she explains in detail about bladder leaks. In the minute-long clip, the actress was seen having lunch with a friend and that friend’s young son.
“I peed,” the friend declared after laughing at a story Heigl told. The Grey’s anatomy alum responded, “It happens to the best of us.”
The 10-year-old boy told his mother it was “so embarrassing” before Heigl came back with some key facts.
“Are you going to deprive your mother of a moment of joy just because she had a fit of giggles?” And besides, it’s kind of your fault,” Heigl noted. “You see, when we have children, the pelvic floor or the muscles and ligaments that support the bladder can weaken.”
Heigl went on to discuss perimenopause (the time just before menopause) before taking out her Poise and handing it to her friend.
Katherine Heigl
Fiorella Occhipinti“You’re embarrassing yourselves,” the 10-year-old declared. Heigl and her friend noted that it is a “mother’s goal” to embarrass their children. (Heigl is a mother of three children. She and husband Josh Kelley adopted daughters Naleigh, 15, and Adalaide, 12, before welcoming son Joshua, 7.)
“Besides, how did you know all that stuff?” the friend asked. Heigl joked, “Well, I used to be a doctor.”
Heigl played Izzie Stevens Grey’s anatomy from 2005 to 2010, leaving the show midway through season 6. Over the years, she has reflected on her departure from the series – and how she would have done some things differently.
The night…was March 27, 2005. Television titan Shonda Rhimes knew what she had just created, but the audience still had no idea. The Grey’s Anatomy pilot introduced several characters, including the show’s protagonist, veteran surgical resident Meredith Gray (Ellen Pompeo). Feisty, undoubtedly intelligent and full of heart, the show wouldn’t survive without it […]
“I felt very protective of Izzie,” the actress said of her character in 2010. “I really loved her. I thought she was an admirable woman who certainly made mistakes. But I started to dislike her, and that bothered me.
The actress infamously withdrew from Emmy Awards consideration after season 4.
“I didn’t feel good about my performance and there was a part of me that thought, because I had won the year before, that I needed juicy, dramatic and emotional material,” she explained during an interview in April 2016. “ So I went to Shelby Stivale Schonda [Rhimes] and said, ‘I’m so sorry. That wasn’t cool, and I shouldn’t have said that.” And I shouldn’t have said anything publicly. But at that moment I didn’t think anyone would notice… I just quietly didn’t surrender and then it became a story, and I felt I was obliged to make my statement, and… ‘Shut up, Katie.”