Heigl appeared in adverts as a child, and small parts in films and TV followed, but it wasn’t until Grey’s Anatomy and Knocked Up came along that she found success. Are there advantages to having to wait to hit the big time? “If you’d asked me five years ago, I would have said no. But now, yes. The timing couldn’t have been better. It’s hard enough, as a 29-year-old, to stay grounded, but I think five years ago it would have been twice as hard.”
Her reasonably relaxed attitude to the industry shows when it comes to questions about the pressure to be thin and beautiful. I notice that she has had her teeth straightened (she used to have little teeth that stuck out either side of her front teeth), which takes away some of the character of her face, but while she is slim, she’s not Hollywood skinny.
“I understand what it is I’m trying to sell and what it is I want people to buy,” she says. “I’m never going to be a (US) size two but I do try to maintain a certain look that appeals. Unfortunately, it keeps changing — it went from uber-thin and then that was wrong, then it went to curvy, and then that was wrong. It’s like, ‘God, what do you want?’ I can’t reform myself every time the trends change.”
She was asked to lose weight for Knocked Up, and she agreed “because they thought it would be funnier if she was in amazing shape and then got pregnant and started losing her body. I thought so too. But other than that ... . I’m always a little delusional. I always thought I was normal. And I was normal, but just not in Hollywood.”
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