is she serious?

Say what you will about her character (and I'm on Team Meredith, so take that for what it's worth), but you don't see Ellen Pompeo whinging about every little thing she does to the media.

"I mean, I know the movie was called, "My Father, the Hero", but it would have been nice to have my mother, or my grandmother, save the day instead. But then what would Gerard Depardieu have done? Sometimes you just have to make sacrifices, for Depardieu's sake. Bitch bitch moan complain glare."

oh shut up katie heigl, please. you're entering jessica alba stratosphere pretty quickly.

p.s. you didn't deserve the emmy.

it's a little disingenuous to cash the $300,000 paycheck and, after you've reaped the benefits of the movie's success, slag your character to a major magazine.

how is this different from slagging the company where you toiled away as a receptionist 40 hours a week, after moving on to a better job? Work is work.

@JennaW: i liked ellen so much more when i saw her Punk'd. she's a down home girl from boston. no fucking joke.

Does Katherine enjoy burning bridges?

I call bullshit. She can't be very concerned for how women are treated or double-standards or anything because (drumroll...) SHE'S MORMON. Done.

I hate Grey's Anatomy and all the hype that surrounds it. Sorry.

@pinafore: the money she's getting from grey's is more than enough. yeah, knocked up with good for her career, but she didn't NEED it, so dissing the movie in which she chose to do is kind of crazy

Did she wake up one day, realize she was pretty much universally liked, and think 'man, what can i do to annoy people and alienate the crazies who still tune in to see the most unbelievable TV romance'? If so, well played Heigl.

Note: im included in those crazies...

KH, you should know the real money comes in residuals. Always keep quiet til the back-end clears.

Eh. Knocked Up is from the p.o.v. of men. Movies from the p.o.v. of women often make men look like assholes.

I hate Grey's with a vengeance (if I wanted histrionic, over-emotional douchbaggery, I would just watch Days of Our Lives), but I will always admire Heigl for sticking up for T.R. Knight. Everyone else on the show was so concerned with covering their own asses and keeping their jobs, but she stood up for her friend, and I admire that.

She does come off as an ungrateful bitch in this article, though.

And Katie also did the D-list requiste pose for Maxim. Can't be to concerned about sexism.

Great googly-moogly! Pay the WGA what they want so they can put words in her mouth, again!

@unfortumissy: Also, I think it's funny. What can I say? I love pothead humor.

Ummm. No. She claims this movie makes women look shrewish and men look fun-loving and goofy. If ANYTHING, the movie makes guys look immature, ill-equipped to face reality without the help of a woman, and hapless. This movie wasn't even a little bit sexist. Screw you Heigl.

Since when do you have to agree with everything about a movie/tv show's message in order to be in it? Work is work. She is certainly allowed an opinion.

I am ready for her to shut up and look pretty. That is all.

@BiscuitDoughJones: EXACTLY.

I think she is a bitch. And truly not all that as an actress. That is all.

@JessiRamsey: in 2000, when she was on Roswell. At that point, she'd probably do anything to keep up a career.

When are we going to get over that "Knocked-Up" is sexist? No fucking shit, along with 99.9% of everything else on T.V. and movies. Somehow as a generation of intellegent, self-aware women I feel like we can get over this.

Ms. Heigl, get over yourself, find an original thought because you're a douchebag.

How long before she calls off the wedding to Josh Kelly so she can hook up with an A-list actor to try to boost her "serious" acting career?

As with so many actors and celebrities, I think I really like them until they open thier mouth. sheesh.

If you are that concerned with the material being something that offends, take a pass.

BTW, I must admit there were times in my pregnancy when I was a bit humorless and uptight. At the same time he was not going through all the physical changes and remained a bit goofy and fun-loving. Go figure.

The issue I would have with her movie would be the selling of the idea that a one night stand turns out to be a stand up guy,yes it's formula guy meets girl, loses girl, gets girl back crap with the happily-ever-after, but I know waaaaay too many women who are single moms-never married-man wants nothing to do with her or the baby. sad.

@hortense: Having her pretend to be her mother's or grandmother's lover though would be an interesting spin to that flick.

God, Knocked Up IS really sexist. Not only for the reasons she described. I'm torn between thinking she might actually be smart enough to realize this (yay!) and thinking that's makes it even worse that she was in it (not so yay). It's all about the paycheck, though; not like we didn't know.

@biscuitdoughjones: And yet she's photographed smoking cigarettes all the time. The Mormons surely do not approve...

@unfortumissy: I thought it was funny, too. I get the haters' point, but I think this movie isn't nearly as sexist as any action movie out there.

@MsKenney: totes. i'm more offended by the trailer for 26 dresses or whatever than by knocked up. also, not a smart business move kathy.

@DorothyZbornak: I'm with you. That show just annoys me. It's too stereotypically girly or something.

@BiscuitDoughJones: "SERIOUSLY?"

Mormon is the new Scientology!
-shakes head in shame-

Ew, also, I work in a doctor's office so we get all those little catalogues with various assortments of scrubs in them. Katherin Heigl has *her own line* of scrubs. The one pictured had some weird buttony thing in the front, and her signature/logo was there, too. So bizarre! Because she's on Grey's Anatomy, she's qualified to do that? And how do make scrubs interesting/cute? (Hint: you don't.)

@whoneedslight: But don't you think that this opinion might have had more heft to it if she had said it BEFORE she took the role or, even, if she didn't take the roll because of it? Or doesn't collect royalties on it?

Dude, Apatow is the last person in Hollywood I would want to piss off. This is really two fold...

First, he can get any movie he wants made and I would guess has casting veto on every one of his movies. And, since I think he is producing every movie being made in the next 3 years, well, Katie should shut her trap.

Second, ever notice how everyone in Judd's movies seem to be the same people. He seems to be a big proponent of taking care of family. Don't piss off Daddy because all of Hollywood may follow.

@BeAgrestic: Hey, there was that article in Vogue about the chic mormon who lives in the city, so perhaps you're right!

The thing about Judd Apatow is that he makes films that are offensive, crude and absurd but manages to turn them into something more than that. So Knocked Up was great and Katherine is an idiot. She thinks she can run her mouth off about everything now that she's got that bogus Emmy in her hands. She'll probably try to pull a Fred Thompson soon enough.

Sorry, but Knocked Up was Hilarious, though I didn't understand why both of the women in the movie were CRAZY....but, whatev. Never have and never will like Katherine H. Never watched Grey's anyway, except for that one episode I saw when I switched cable companies and went without cable for a night.

I haven't seen the movie, so I have absolutely no knowledgeable opinion on whether she's right or not, but I find it a bit ridonkulous that you guys point out the sluts/hookers/mothers options, and as you point out one of the Jezebels thinks these very same things, but because Katherine Heigl took the part she's now not allowed to criticize. I mean seriously, is her choice to not play any character she doesn't think is 100% awesome or to shut up about any thoughts of her own? Are unsuccessful actresses (because they couldn't take any parts) the only ones allowed to give opinions on movie characters from a feminist POV?

But she grew up in CT. Is she REALLY Mormon??

(And, yes, I know Mitt Romney is from MA but he's just a freak.)

On the fence on this one. Love it when the fame whores at least MENTION sexism/feminism (hello Reese) but, um, how is the Vargas-girl photo shoot NOT participating in the same thing?

@Mollyboo: Yes. I don't know if she practices, but she was raised. She owns property up in Utah, that is where she'll supposedly be getting married.

@jemaher: that is the least offensive picture ive seen in a while. if all "sexy" photoshoots were just Vargas reenactments, uh, the world would be a better place? i dont know, but you know what i mean.

@Mollyboo: Mormons do exist, in large numbers, outside of Utah. My hometown in LA had a huge Mormon population, so I don't think CT has anything to do with it.

Sorry, ungrateful bitch she may be, but she's not wrong. The Izzy & George storyline is utter crap and between that and Isiah Washington it was pretty much the beginning of the end of the show that was fun junk food TV. Knocked Up was an ugly, fat, lazy guy's fantasy. Apatow's take on women blows, always has and was evident in the difference between Undeclared and Freaks & Geeks, which was actually Paul Feig's show, not his. Or did anyone notice that Catherine Keener mysteriously had no friends either in 40 Year Old Virgin? And I won't get into the "Ew, women bleed from down there!" immaturity that was Superbad.

@pinafore: The difference is that most people who complain about their jobs do it over a beer with their friends. They don't diss their jobs or employers at, say, professional association meetings, or in job interviews, etc. What she's doing here is just bad business.

Besides, she knowingly joined a profession that would capitalize on her beauty and sexuality. It's not like she went to law school and then found herself disappointed by a sexist boss who wouldn't take her seriously. She knew what she was getting into, got super rich in the process, and now she's whining because her grand plan of making a fortune by playing the hot chick actually worked.