Anne Hathaway's journey to having children wasn't the easiest, and she recently opened up about a particular experience of having a miscarriage. In a new interview for Vanity Fair, the 41-year-old Princess Diaries actress shared some insight on an Instagram post that she made in 2019, when she made the announcement that she was expecting her second child.
"It’s not for a movie," the caption read. "All kidding aside, for everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love.”
"Given the pain I felt while trying to get pregnant, it would've felt disingenuous to post something all the way happy when I know the story is much more nuanced than that for everyone," she explained. Anne then continued on to open up about a miscarriage she experienced.
In 2015, Anne starred in a one-woman off-Broadway play titled Grounded, which ran for six weeks. During one of those runs, she experienced a miscarriage. She kept the loss a secret, aside from telling her friends who visited her backstage.
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"The first time it didn't work out for me. I was doing a play and I had to give birth onstage every night," she said. "It was too much to keep it in when I was onstage pretending everything was fine."
"I had to keep it real otherwise," she continued. "So when it did go well for me, having been on the other side of it — where you have to have the grace to be happy for someone — I wanted to let my sisters know, 'You don't have to always be graceful. I see you and I'm with you.'"
"It's really hard to want something so much and to wonder if you're doing something wrong," she added. She also commented on being surprised to find out how common miscarriages are after experiencing one herself.
"I thought, where is this information? Why are we feeling so unnecessarily isolated? That's where we take on damage. So I decided that I was going to talk about it." Anne now is a mother of two boys whom she shares with her husband Adam Shulman.
In a 2023 interview, Anne talked about keeping her family life separate from her public life. "It’s something I feel is not just essential for my health – I’m on a team, it’s my family, and it’s not just about me," she said. "My family has needs, and one of the needs of children is that they need to be able to define their own lives."
"It doesn’t even occur to me to link the two up, except through gratitude that they serve each other so beautifully," she continued. "But they serve each other through me, and not through a space that’s outside of myself."
