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'Hope you all are laughing': Katherine Heigl shares rare family photo with all three kids... after describing difficult birth with son Joshua

Published: 14:24 EST, 26 December 2017 | Updated: 09:10 EST, 27 December 2017

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Katherine Heigl is a mother of three. But it's rare when the blonde beauty shares a family photo.

That changed on Christmas day when the Grey's Anatomy vet took to Instagram to post a portrait with son Joshua, and daughters Nancy and Adalaide as well as musician husband Josh Kelley. Also in the photo was Josh's niece Madison.

This comes after the star revealed in a very candid post that she had a difficult time after the birth of her son Joshua, aged one.

All together: Katherine Heigl shared this rare family photo on Christmas day

Heigl looked lovely in a black top with silver necklace and her hair up.

The Knocked Up star's daughters had on blue dresses. And her son was in black. She had her arm around Josh's niece Madison who wore blue.

Josh looked like a proud dad as he held his son.

Rare: The actress shared a photo from when she was pregnant with baby Josh on her Instagram account last week

This comes after she shared a nude pregnancy photo with a powerful essay.

In her caption, the blonde 27 Dresses actress revealed he didn't have the easiest birth as he was not breathing when he was delivered by C-section.

In the first image she is naked while heavily pregnant as she looks out a window onto the snowy landscape outside their Utah home.

Honest: The Grey's Anatomy vet said she was nervous about the delivery and here she is seen just before the C-section. She said: 'Trying to look cool, calm and collected!'

Other images are of her son in the hospital with tubes and her husband can also be seen.

And in the last photo little Joshua is a healthy smiling boy in his mother's arms.

The former Roswell star began her note: 'At 9am one year ago today I had @joshbkelley take this photo of me so I could remember how incredibly pregnant I was right before we left for the hospital and my 12pm scheduled cesarean.

'Joshua Jr had been in the breech position for over a month and had still not moved an inch a week before his due date so I made the decision to have a cesarean and was incredibly nervous and a little scared this time last year.'

'I had never been hospitalized or had ever had any kind of surgery and had no idea what to expect. The second photo is right before I went in for surgery. Trying to look cool, calm and collected! They numbed me up, gave me some morphine and opened me up.

'My doctor struggled to get him out because he was really wedged in there and not quite ready to leave the womb.

Hard start: 'My doctor struggled to get him out because he was really wedged in there and not quite ready to leave the womb,' she revealed

'When she finally pulled him out at exactly 12:33pm he didn’t start breathing and they worked quickly to get oxygen in him and start his tiny lungs. @joshbkelley was standing with them when he finally took his first breath. That day, as I slowly came out of the morphine haze and clutched my tiny man to me.

'I thanked the heavens for his breath, his life and for making me a mother three times over. As evening settled in Josh and I got cozy in my hospital room, found one of my all time favorites #SweetHomeAlabama on the tv and just relished in our perfect newborn son.

'He was so tiny and new, so fragile and tender. As I lay him down to sleep that first night in his very appropriate “welcome to the world” sleep sack I thought the moment would last forever.

Struggle: 'When she finally pulled him out at exactly 12:33pm he didn’t start breathing and they worked quickly to get oxygen in him and start his tiny lungs. @joshbkelley was standing with them when he finally took his first breath

The story: The Knocked Up star wrote a lot about the birth of Joshua in one of her most honest and revealing posts ever

'Yet here we are, a whole year later and it’s only the photos that remind me my brute of a boy was ever so new and small! Now he’s 26 ponds of rolling, tumbling, grasping, giggling, shouting, curious, jolly energy!

'He is everything and more than I could have hoped for and he has brought our family even more joy, love, laughter, abundance, bliss and yes, exhaustion and exasperation too! It’s been a hell of a year and I could not be more grateful for it or him! Happy Birthday to my little man! Maybe I can make this next year go a little slower!'

She already has two adopted daughters Naleigh, aged eight, and Adalaide, aged four, with husband Josh Kelley, a singer.

The little guy: 'He is everything and more than I could have hoped for and he has brought our family even more joy, love, laughter, abundance, bliss and yes, exhaustion and exasperation too!' she said

Still in the hospital: This is her third child, but her first bio baby; she has already two adopted daughters

New mom look: In January she told People: 'I’ve never been determined to experience pregnancy. But I’m so grateful that I did,' she said

She liked being pregnant: 'I thought, "Oh, pregnancy is going to wreck me, I am going to be one of those women who’s just probably sick the whole time and feels terrible and exhausted." [But] I just had a pretty easy experience,' she said earlier this year

In January she told People: 'I’ve never been determined to experience pregnancy. But I’m so grateful that I did. I think that if it hadn’t been a surprise, I’m not sure I would have done it. It was an incredible experience, it was kind of magical.”

'I think it all threw me for a loop. For some reason I just felt like it was going to be so hard for me … I have all these stomach issues all the time and my back always hurts.

'I thought, "Oh, pregnancy is going to wreck me, I am going to be one of those women who’s just probably sick the whole time and feels terrible and exhausted." [But] I just had a pretty easy experience.'

The real deal about being a new mom: She also shared that there have been some highs and lows. 'One minute you’re weirdly obsessed with this baby, like "Don’t take him out of my sight," and the next you’re kind of blue, you’re a little sad and a little freaked out,' she said

She also shared that there have been some highs and lows.

'One minute you’re weirdly obsessed with this baby, like "Don’t take him out of my sight," and the next you’re kind of blue, you’re a little sad and a little freaked out,' she said.

'I actually prefer the adoption way because I wasn’t subject to hormones.'

'The moment you hold your child, you’re wholly in love. And you’ll do anything to protect them and shelter them.'