Katherine Heigl & Daughter Naleigh W Magazine Cover Debut Dec. 2010

Katherine Heigl makes baby Naleigh a covergirl!

The former Grey’s Anatomy actress and her young daughter chatted with W Magazine for the lifestyle mag’s year-end/Family Issue.

“I was about to play a woman who inherits a baby, and I was experiencing the exact same thing,” Katherine told the magazine.

Inside the mag, Katherine also poses with more of her family, including mom Nancy and sister Meg.

Naleigh, who was born in Korea with a congenital heart problem that was corrected through surgery, was adopted by Katherine and her rocker hubby Josh Kelley just “three or four days” before the chain-smoking blonde starting filming her latest box office effort, Life As We Know It.

“My sister is Korean,” Katherine said. “I hope one day she and Naleigh will be able to talk about what it’s like to be adopted.”

The actress says there was “no way in hell” she was going to get rid of her six dogs before Naleigh arrived — and is happy she didn’t.

“Naleigh loves them. Sometimes it reminds me of The Jungle Book. I’m like, ‘Oh my God – she’s being raised by animals!’”