Katherine Heigl pushed singer Josh Kelley to propose to her by dropping strong hints about marriage.

The Knocked Up star met Kelley on the set of one of his music videos in 2005 and they subsequently began dating. Kelley proposed in 2006 and the couple wed a year later. But Heigl insists the proposal was all her idea.

She says, “I didn’t propose to him (but) I strongly suggested he propose. “One day we were sitting in my house, chatting and having a glass of wine, and I said, ‘How do you feel about marriage? Where do you see this relationship going? Because I don’t want to just date any more.’ I had just got to a place in my life when I was ready for a commitment.”

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It’s been three months since her Christmas-themed wedding in Park City, Utah, and Katherine Heigl can’t stop singing the praises of her new husband, musician Josh Kelley.

“He was everything I was looking for, or needed or wanted in my life,” the 27 Dresses star told Britain’s Sunday Times. “He’s just so easy to be around. He lightens up the room and lightens my load.”

In fact, the 29-year-old Grey’s Anatomy star already has babies on the brain. “I think he’d prefer to wait a little more time, but I kind of wouldn’t,” she told the paper, adding that it would be “foolish” to waste their current career opportunities. “I think we’ll meet somewhere in the middle.”

When it comes to maintaining her famous figure, Heigl relies on that same spirit of compromise. “I’ve just discovered if I don’t eat bread or pasta, my stomach doesn’t feel so bloated all the time,” she said. “I try to eat healthy, but I think if you cut out every wonderful thing you love, what’s the point? I’d rather feel sick.”

Overcoming Family Tragedy
Heigl may seem to have it all these days – a rock-star hubby, a hit TV series and comparisons to America’s Sweetheart Julia Roberts. (”I can’t help but feel that’s a little insulting to Julia Roberts,” she joked to the Times.) But her life wasn’t always so picture perfect.

When she was only 7, her older brother Jason died from injuries he sustained when he was thrown from the back of a pickup truck.

“For a long time, [Jason’s death] made me afraid of being too happy because things happen so unexpectedly,” she said. “Your world can change and every aspect of your life is different.”

In fact, Heigl said, she’s still learning to let down her defenses. “[His death] made me afraid when good things happen. It made me brace against it that little bit,” she explained. “I’m trying hard not to do that any more. It doesn’t make something terrible easier – and I don’t want to waste my happiness.”

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Katherine Heigl has hit back at critics who have hailed her as the next Julia Roberts, insisting the comparison is “insulting” to the Pretty Woman star.

Heigl found fame starring in TV medical drama Grey’s Anatomy, but has since found Hollywood success in movies like 2007’s Knocked Up. Her film outings have been well-received and critics have been quick to compare her to Roberts, who also starred in a number of romantic comedies throughout her career. But 29-year-old Heigl insists she is not out to copy anyone else’s acting style.

She says, “I can’t help but feel that’s (the comparison) is a little insulting to Julia Roberts. There’s not another woman who I look at and think, ‘That’s it, that’s whose career I want to have.’ “I’m just me and trying to do the best I can in every decision in any given moment.”

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Knocked Up star Katherine Heigl has given up her Mormon beliefs as she is “too lazy” to follow a religion.

The actress was born a Christian but her family converted to the Church of the Latter-Day Saints after the death of her older brother Jason when Heigl was seven years old. And despite her strict Mormon upbringing, the star insists she has since abandoned the faith because she just doesn’t have enough time to devote herself fully to the practice.

She says, “I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and I think it is a wonderful way to grow up. But I think any real commitment to religion takes time, effort and energy. “I just got really lazy and it’s hard to get yourself up on a Sunday morning.”

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Izzie haters, be warned!

Katherine Heigl’s not going anywhere yet.

Despite swirling reports that the Emmy winner wants out of Grey’s Anatomy to concentrate on her burgeoning movie career, a rep for Katherine says they’re nothing more than rumors.

“She is starting work next week,” the rep said. “She is returning to Grey’s Anatomy and filming a movie at the same time.”

However, it’s not like the 29-year-old could leave Seattle Grace Hospital even if she wanted to. Katherine still has two years left on her three-year contract and bailing early could result in heavy fines. But an insider reveals that she might be willing to take that chance.

“If it were up to her, she would have her character killed off,” the insider says. “She fears if she waits much longer, the moment will pass [in launching a film career].”

This isn’t the first time Katherine’s caused trouble with her ABC bosses. Early last year, the newlywed dropped out of contract negotiations over a salary dispute, citing disappointment that “Touchstone doesn’t value her as much as her other costars, especially Sandra Oh and Isaiah Washington.”

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