“I’m done,” she tells the new issue of Entertainment Weekly.  “We just finalized our agreement,” continues Heigl, 31, who played Dr. Izzie Stevens on the ABC medical drama for six seasons. “Everyone had been working really hard to find an amicable and gracious way of letting go and moving on. It’s sad but it’s what I wanted.”

She says she wants more time to focus on her 16-month-old daughter Naleigh, whom she adopted from South Korea with husband Josh Kelley last September.

“I started a family and it changed everything for me,” says Heigl, who took a three-month leave after welcoming her baby girl. “It changed my desire to work full-time.”

Source: US Weekly

Nice pickup by our friends at Angry Asian Man on Jenna Ushkowitz singing the 80′s hit “True Colors” on the TV show Glee. Jenna is an adopted Korean girl from New York who’s now belting it out on Fox’s new hit TV show.

Here’s a snippet of her auditions for Glee.

Katherine Heigl is on maternity leave from her TV show “Grey’s Anatomy” so she can spend quality time with her newly adopted baby girl, Naleigh.  Mrs. Heigl is actually celebrating her daughter’s birthday today, which is a day before her own birthday.

“She was actually born the day before me in November, which I thought was really serendipitous and just kind of like a sign.”

Katherine Heigl, the Grey’s Anatomy star, has announced she’s expecting a baby…. from South Korea.  She’s begun the paperwork for adopting a 10 month old South Korean baby.  What you may not know about Katherine Heigl is that her own sister Meg is an adoptee from South Korea.  Of course she has a heart for Koreans!

Her full name is Nayleigh and her nickname will be Leigh, RadarOnline.com learned. The baby is approximately 10 months old.

“She is thrilled,” a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com. “She and Josh are so happy.”

The idea of adoption is nothing new for the actress, as she told USA Today two years that it’s something she’s “always planned.”

“I’m done with the whole idea of having my own children,” Heigl said.

“[It] doesn’t seem like any fun. I don’t think it’s necessary to go through all of that.”

What you also may not know is that there are approximately 200,000 Korean adoptees worldwide and about 100,000 reside in the U.S.  South Korea has one of the more prominent adoption systems in the world.  I once visited an orphanage in South Korea back in the 80s, and my heart was really broken by seeing all those kids.  Good for Katherine!

Source: Radar Online

Join the Korea Society NY for a screening of Adopted, a documentary film that explores seldom spoken about aspects of international adoption through two stories. A 32-year-old Korean-born woman makes one last effort to bond with her dying adoptive mother, while a young couple, flush with hope, begins the process of adopting a baby girl from China. This  emotionally intense film juxtaposes hope and possibility with a view of adoption that does not shy away from its intrinsic complexities. Though the two families are at the opposite ends of their journeys, the stories converge to show that love is not always enough to make a family work.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with filmmakers Barb Lee and Nancy Kim Parsons.