Katherine Heigl talks weight gain

Actress Katherine Heigl and her husband and singer Josh Kelley recently welcomed a baby boy named Joshua Bishop Kelley Jr.

Heigl opened up about her pregnancy. She told People, “What was rough with the pregnancy was just the terror of the weight gain. Stepping on that scale every month in the doctor’s office was heartbreaking for me. I tried to be as healthy as I could about it and not go crazy, but I still gained a lot. I gained like 40 lbs.”

She added, “That’s hard for an actress who’s spent her whole life trying to always lose that last 10. Within a week and a half after he was born, I dropped so much weight, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, my body really does know what it’s doing, I’m just going to back off and not stress about this’.”