Josh Kelley‘s wife, Katherine Heigl is more than just a famous movie star. At heart she’s just a working mom who struggles with all the same things we normal folks do. True, she doesn’t get up and head out to an office (unless she happens to be shooting a movie in one), but she has to wake up and look her daughter in the face everyday and say good bye…

Now when I take a job, I look my daughter in the eye, screw up my courage and try to explain to her that Mommy has to go to work. And when she looks back at me and says, “But why?,” I tell her the truth: that work makes me a better person, a better woman, a better mother. Then I pray to God that she will understand one day and that my example will encourage her to find and follow her bliss as well … after I’ve paid for all the therapy, of course.

Katherine is iVillage‘s newest blogger…trying her hand at sharing her thoughts and struggles with the world of working mom’s out there. You can read her first entry here.

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