Katherine Heigl is ready to part ways with her home in Utah.
The 47-year-old “27 Dresses” actress placed her home in the Utah mountains on the market for $10.6 million, in partnership with listing agent Paul Benson of Engel & Völkers Park City.
She reportedly purchased the land for $1 million in 2007 when she married her husband, musician Josh Kelley, and the two built the house together in 2008. They moved their family from Los Angeles to Utah full-time in 2012, and are now looking to downsize.
“It’s been very hard to decide to let it go. I’m a real sort-of homebody and creature of habit,” Heigl told The Wall Street Journal. But the couple have realized that “when they’re all gone—all slaying their own dragons and living their lives —it’s just you and me in this giant house on this giant land,” she added.
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Heigl shares three children with Kelley: Naleigh, 17, Adalaide, 14, and Joshua, 9.
The 8,352-square-foot home features six bedrooms and seven bathrooms, including two primary suites, as well as a great room with high ceilings and a 30-foot steel fireplace.
In addition, the property also includes a detached space which Heigl used as an art studio, but can be used as a guest suite, gym, home office or for any other purpose. Also on the property is a heated pool and multiple manicured lawns.
“We built these houses in Utah that we expected to be more kind of vacation homes, or when I could get away from the hustle and all the work. And we just started spending more and more time there,” she told the “Today” show in September 2023. “And it was my husband who finally made it his primary residence on his driver’s license and stuff. And we went. ‘Yeah, I think this is our primary residence. We live here now.'”
She began her acting career as a teenager, landing leading roles in films such as “My Father the Hero” and “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory,” before landing a role on the TV series, “Roswell.” Her biggest breakthrough, however, came in 2005, when she was cast as Izzie Stevens on “Grey’s Anatomy.”
Her work on the show earned her an Emmy Award for supporting actress in a drama, and led to a successful film career, in movies such as “Knocked Up,” “The Ugly Truth,” “New Year’s Eve” and others.
Following her Emmy win, Heigl caused some controversy when she withdrew her name for consideration at the award show the following year, saying she “did not feel that I was given the material this season to warrant” another nomination. This ruffled some feathers, and combined with other comments she made about long working hours and wanting to spend more time with her family, led to her being labeled as “difficult,” and being written out of the show.
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When speaking with “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo during an episode of Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Heigl admitted the show’s overnight success gave her “a false sense of confidence.”
“It was rooted in something that couldn’t and maybe wouldn’t always last for me. So then I started getting real mouthy, because I did have a lot to say, and there were certain boundaries and things that I was not OK with being crossed. I didn’t know how to fight that.”
She admitted that “there was no part of me that imagined a bad reaction” when she confronted showrunners with her suggestions, adding she “felt really justified in how I felt about it and where I was coming from.”
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“It took me until probably my mid- to late-30s to really get back to tuning out all of the noise and going, ‘But who are you? Are you this bad person? Are you ungrateful? Are you unprofessional? Are you difficult?’ Because I was confused! I thought maybe I was,” she added. “I literally believed that version, and felt such shame for such a long time, and then had to go, ‘Wait. Who am I listening to? I’m not even listening to myself. I know who I am.'”
While she has not reunited with the cast on-screen, she did participate in a mini “Grey’s Anatomy” reunion with some members of the original cast on-stage at the 2024 Emmy Awards.
After leaving “Grey’s Anatomy,” Heigl starred in films like “One for the Money” and “Unforgettable,” as well as TV shows such as “State of Affairs,” “Suits” and “Firefly Lane.”
