Last week saw the dramatic return of Izzie Stevens to Grey’s Anatomy. It turns out that the return will be somewhat short-lived.

ABC has confirmed that Katherine Heigl will soon be leaving again for some maternity leave. The actress is taking time off to spend with her husband, Josh Kelley, and their newly adopted daughter, Naleigh. (Her previous leave was to shoot a film.)

Heigl is expected to return to the show in early 2010.

The Grey’s Anatomy cast is whole again! New moms Ellen Pompeo and Katherine Heigl returned to work on the show this week, PEOPLE has learned.

“They’re both back at work and everyone’s really happy to see them,” says a show source.

Pompeo, who welcomed Stella Luna Pompeo Ivery on Sept. 15, won’t be absent from any episodes of the show thanks to the production team’s planning ahead for the actress’s maternity leave by pre-taping Meredith’s scenes.

After adopting 10-month-old baby Naleigh on Sept. 10 — and taking five weeks off to film the romantic comedy Life As We Know It — Heigl also returned to the set this week. Heigl’s character Izzie will return to Seattle Grace in the episode airing Nov. 12, the same episode where guest star Kim Raver will begin her stint on the show.

No word on whether or not Stella and Naleigh have come to work with their moms yet, but if Chyler Leigh’s experience with 5-month-old Anniston is any indication, they’re more than welcome on the family-friendly set. “My trailer is overtaken by kid’s stuff. Anniston has a buzzy chair, diapers, wipes, formula, toys,” she told PEOPLE in August. And the cast takes to it well, too. “Justin [Chambers] crowned [Anniston] baby Elvis because of her mowhawk!”

One thing is for sure — soon Anniston, Naleigh and Stella will have a new playmate: Eric Dane and his wife Rebecca Gayheart are expecting their first child together next year.

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seems that the some of the leading ladies in the television entertainment business is going places and how. One such name is that of actress Katherine Heigl. According to the Forbes, Heigl is among the top contenders for the spot of the highest paid female stars in the television industry.

She faced tough competition from only one person and that is the present Czarina of the television entertainment circuit, former supermodel Tyra Banks. Banks has clinched the number one spot and is followed by Heigl for the highest earning females in television. Banks’ took home an estimated $30 million from her various projects like that of “America’s Top Model” and “The Tyra Banks Show” and behind the camera work as well as numerous onscreen cameos.

Armed with an earning of nearly about $18 million from her various endeavors like “Grey’s Anatomy” as well as several movies like “The Ugly Truth” [which released this year], Heigl has taken up the second spot for the women who are raking in the moolah. From the looks of it, it seems that Katherine Heigl is slowly and steadily making her mark in the acting business, shifting between movies and television. If Forbes’ list is anything to go by, Heigl has already turned in to one of television’s most bankable actresses.

The Forbes top 10 list is rounded off by such other names as Marg Helgenberger ($9.5 million), Eva Longoria Parker ($9 million), Mariska Hargitay ($8.5 million), Julia Louis Dreyfus ($8 million), Maura Tierney ($8 million), Tina Fey ($7 million), Marcia Cross ($6.2 million), Jennifer Love Hewitt ($6 million) and Ellen Pompeo ($6 million), who follow the top two names. [Source]

“Grey’s Anatomy” actress Katherine Heigl, who’s currently in Atlanta shooting “Life As We Know It,” has posted the first pictures of little Naleigh, her 10-month-old baby she adopted with musician hubby Josh Kelley.

The budding big screen star recently announced on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” that the couple was adding the special needs infant from South Korea to their family.

According to her charitable Website, /www.jasonheiglfoundation.org/, Heigl and Kelley named the baby after her mother Nancy and her sister Leigh.

To see the first family portrait. [CLICK HERE]

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Mom-to-be Ellen Pompeo showed off her growing baby bump as she returned home from a visit with her Grey’s Anatomy co-star Katherine Heigl and her new daughter Naleigh, 10 months. After a 6-month wait, Katherine and her husband Josh Kelley brought home their adopted baby girl this weekend!

“It’s been a big part of my life and my family,” Katherine told Ellen DeGeneres this week of her decision to adopt. “My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her back in the 70s and so I just always knew that this is something I wanted to do.”

Former Grey’s star T.R. Knight was also spotted on his way to visit the new mom and her family this morning.

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