'Grey's Anatomy' star Katherine Heigl and her husband, musician Josh Kelley, are starting their family.
RadarOnline.com first reported that the couple were adopting a 10-month-old girl from Korea named Naleigh and that they had been working on the adoption process for around six months.
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Heigl's sister Meg was also adopted from Korea.
In an interview airing on today's 'Ellen DeGeneres Show', Heigl says the child's name is a hybrid of her mother and sister's names, Nancy and Leigh.
"She was actually born the day before me in November which I thought was really serendipitous and just kind of like a sign. I realised just recently that I basically forfeited my birthday for the rest of my life," she says.
Of the adoption process, Heigl says: "She is a special needs baby and because of that it all moved so much faster. They wanted to get her to us as quickly as possible."
"It's [adoption] been a big part of my life and my family," the 30-year-old actress tells host DeGeneres. "My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her back in the Seventies and so I just always knew that this is something I wanted to do."
