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" Actress Katherine Heigl stands out in the crowd ... and that&amp;#039;s not just because she&amp;#039;s famous. Dressed in a low-cut black camisole that she comes daringly close to spilling out of (the girl is blessed), tight jeans, and wedge heels that add at least three inches to her already 5-foot-9 frame, she&amp;#039;s impossible not to stare at. And as soon as she orders a dirty martini and tells the waiter, &amp;quot;You rock,&amp;quot; when he sets it down in front of her, it becomes clear she&amp;#039;s impossible not to like either.  Two years ago, 28-year-old Katherine, or Katie to her friends, was just another beautiful blond actress making the rounds of auditions in Hollywood. Though under the radar, she&amp;#039;d been working pretty steadily since age 9, appearing in films like Bride of Chucky and the TV series Roswell. But by 2004, she was worried that her career wasn&amp;#039;t headed to the heights she&amp;#039;d dreamed of while growing up in the preppy town of New Canaan, Connecticut. Then it happened: She landed the role of model-turned-medical-intern Izzie Stevens on Grey&amp;#039;s Anatomy, and just like that, she became a bona fide celebrity. Buoyed by the national obsession with the show and its gorgeous cast, Katherine now has plenty of choice roles to pick from (next summer, she&amp;#039;ll star in the comedy Knocked Up). In the midst of all the hoopla, she also has managed to hit it big in the love department. Katherine met rocker Josh Kelley in 2005, when she appeared in his video for &amp;quot;Only You,&amp;quot; and she&amp;#039;s been all about him ever since. Josh popped the question this past June. As if that weren&amp;#039;t enough to inspire envy, the girl has even more admirable traits: She&amp;#039;s smart (she reads constantly), open about her love life (Josh even stopped by her interview for a smooch), and delightfully opinionated (see the next page!).    Besides being a blonde, what do you have in common with Izzie?  That&amp;#039;s tough because so much of her is me \u2014 the way I laugh and talk. And by the way, my plan was to be a brown-haired Izzie, but they said no. I&amp;#039;d love to be a brunette. Having brown hair makes me feel more exotic. Are you as sexually liberated as Izzie is ... or do you think she&amp;#039;s a little too quick to hop in the sack? She kind of is. Like, how fast did she go to bed with Alex? Pretty quickly. No, that&amp;#039;s not how I behave. Not unless I&amp;#039;m with somebody that I&amp;#039;m truly, madly in love with. I&amp;#039;m not a saint, but I&amp;#039;ve learned my lessons about this sort of thing, and it&amp;#039;s not emotionally healthy for me to sleep around. I&amp;#039;ve definitely been with people I probably didn&amp;#039;t love, and I always felt really vulnerable in those situations.  Is there anything about Izzie that you really admire? I&amp;#039;d like to be how she is under all that stress and pressure. Also, she can always put a smile on her face and listen to endless hours of George whining about Meredith. She&amp;#039;s immensely kind. Even when Alex was a complete dirtbag to her, she forgave him and gave him another chance. And he really screwed her over. Men like that have never interested me because I think I value myself too much. To go for a guy like that is to say, &amp;quot;I want to be damaged.&amp;quot; Izzie is too naive in that she thinks she can save him.  Is Justin Chambers, who plays Alex, a good kisser? He&amp;#039;s a great kisser: not too aggressive, not too sloppy. He doesn&amp;#039;t leave spit all over you. But in real life, he&amp;#039;s like an older brother to me \u2014 always superprotective and supportive. The whole cast is, actually. I truly love them all. They&amp;#039;re my family now, and if somebody has a problem, we&amp;#039;re in each other&amp;#039;s trailers working it out.  How does your fianc\u00E9 feel about those lip-locks? He&amp;#039;s not cool with it. It&amp;#039;s funny to me because it&amp;#039;s so not what it looks like \u2014 it&amp;#039;s staged and technical, and what makes it hot is how they edit it, slowing it down and adding music. But he can&amp;#039;t watch it...which is a good thing, I think. If he didn&amp;#039;t care, I&amp;#039;d be a little worried.  So he wouldn&amp;#039;t be psyched if you did a nude scene? First of all, I think nudity is distracting \u2014 the audience isn&amp;#039;t paying attention to your acting; they&amp;#039;re looking at your boobs. And then there&amp;#039;s the fact that I&amp;#039;m not particularly comfortable with my body. I don&amp;#039;t want the whole world seeing me completely naked. I mean, I have a hard enough time feeling comfortable walking around naked with the lights on around my fianc\u00E9! I&amp;#039;m flawed; I&amp;#039;m not perfect. But clothes help. A good bra with some underwire definitely helps a lot! You look like you&amp;#039;ve lost quite a bit of weight. What size are you now? Right now, I&amp;#039;m a four because I just had to lose 10 pounds for Knocked Up. I play an E! news reporter who survives on ambition and celery sticks. But usually, I&amp;#039;m a six. I had to go on a diet, and diets are so boring. I don&amp;#039;t condone obesity, but I don&amp;#039;t think we all need to be a fucking size two. It&amp;#039;s a ridiculous goal. You know what&amp;#039;s important? Living well andnot being consumed with eating boring salads that you hate. Eat Brie, and have a glass of red wine! Then you wouldn&amp;#039;t care if someone said you had &amp;quot;a real body,&amp;quot; like they say about Kate Winslet? When people say, &amp;quot;You have a real body&amp;quot; to me, I&amp;#039;m like, &amp;quot;Is that a backhanded compliment?&amp;quot; Kate Winslet has a fantastic body, period. It&amp;#039;s far more my taste than, say, Nicole Richie&amp;#039;s. You don&amp;#039;t have to look like that to be fashionable or hot. Everybody has different body types, and I&amp;#039;m sick of this thing where we should all be little clones of one another. When you met Josh on that video shoot, would you say it was love at first sight? I love this story. It&amp;#039;s so romantic. The video is about these two people flirting through their apartment windows ... and we were flirting for real through those windows. Josh has a piercing gaze and the most beautiful smile that lights up the whole place. I was attracted to the fact that he was so confident,so comfortable with himself \u2014 though he says he wasn&amp;#039;t. And he was so funny. Charm is a powerful drug \u2014 it&amp;#039;s what Patrick Dempsey has, and that&amp;#039;s what Josh has too.   So Patrick is just as McDreamy in real life? Oh, he is! He oozes charm. If he had a darling flaw, it would be that he can be a bit cranky in the mornings. But he&amp;#039;s always contrite afterward. His sex appeal comes from his humor and innate charm. Izzie is always baking on the show. Do you cook? Sometimes. But working 80-hour weeks, I don&amp;#039;t get to do domestic things very much. Josh is from Georgia, and I did once make him this whole Southern meal of smothered chicken and biscuits and gravy, and I swear to God that&amp;#039;s what sealed the deal for him. When&amp;#039;s the wedding? I&amp;#039;m enjoying being engaged and not having to quite go there yet. Being engaged adds a weight to the relationship...and not just because the ring is heavy! But because you&amp;#039;re saying &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s you, and only you, for the rest of my life.&amp;quot; It took me about a week to get used to that idea. It&amp;#039;s intense. Speaking of that ring, were you just about to die when you saw it? Yeah. It&amp;#039;s ridiculously big, but I really like it. See, I&amp;#039;m really shallow. I was like, &amp;quot;Sure, I&amp;#039;ll marry you!&amp;quot; When you and Josh have time off, what kind of stuff do you like to do together? The first summer we were together, we&amp;#039;d have what I&amp;#039;d call our art days. I love sculpting, but I&amp;#039;ve never gone to anactual class, so my stuff always ends up falling apart. Josh, on the other hand, is an amazing artist who paints and draws.Now we do a lot of spa dates and a lot of what everybody else does: eating out, movies ... that kind of stuff. In Knocked Up, your character gets pregnant after a one-night stand. Any thoughts on babies? I had to do this big birth scene in it, so they had me watching all these documentaries about women giving birth. They were horrifying! They made me go home and say to my fianc\u00E9 &amp;quot;Would you still marry me if I didn&amp;#039;t want children?&amp;quot; [Laughs.] Seriously, I&amp;#039;ve always imagined I&amp;#039;d have children, but I&amp;#039;ve always known I would want to be a working mother too. I want to have a life and enjoy my work. It makes me who I am, and I don&amp;#039;t think I could be everything to a child if I weren&amp;#039;t who I am. All that&amp;#039;s way in the future though. I don&amp;#039;t even have a wedding date yet. So as long as I don&amp;#039;t get knocked up anytime soon, I&amp;#039;m good! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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