Anne Hathaway Recalls Suffering a Miscarriage While Playing Character Who Gives Birth
Anne Hathaway is opening up about her fertility challenges. While she’s welcomed two sons with her husband Adam Shulman, Anne revealed in a new interview that she suffered a miscarriage in 2015.
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Hathaway suffered a miscarriage in 2015. Compounding the painful experience, she was also performing for six weeks at the time in a one-woman off-Broadway show, Grounded, centered on a female U.S. Air Force pilot who is grounded when she gets pregnant.
"The first time it didn’t work out for me. I was doing a play and I had to give birth onstage every night. It was too much to keep it in when I was onstage pretending everything was fine. I had to keep it real otherwise... 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’ve been you. It's really hard to want something so much and to wonder if you’re doing something wrong."
Miscarriages are far more common than what many people may realize,
"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. The thing that broke my heart, blew my mind, and gave me hope was that for three years after, almost daily, a woman came up to me in tears and I would just hold her, because she was carrying this [pain] around and suddenly it wasn’t all hers anymore."
Ultimately gave birth to her second son, Jack, at the end of 2019, Hathaway had already welcomed her firstborn son, then-3-year-old Jonathan.
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