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Katherine Heigl and Josh Kelley‘s daughter really is a daddy’s girl.
“The first thing she said was, ‘Dada,’ and then she’d call everybody else she loved ‘Dada,’” Heigl says in the October issue of InStyle of their daughter Nancy Leigh Mi-Eun, nicknamed Naleigh. “She actually attached to Josh much faster.”
The couple talked about adopting even before they were engaged, so when they adopted their baby from Korea a year later, the Life As We Know It actress says all her dreams came true.
But Heigl admits connecting with her 20-month-old daughter had its challenges.
“I had a lot of complicated emotions about it because I chose to go back to work,” she says. “I love what I do and – this isn’t just making excuses – if I weren’t fulfilling this thing in me to perform, to live out my passion, I don’t know that I would be the mom I need to be.”
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