Anne Hathaway has spoken out in a candid interview about her fertility struggles and life as a mother to her two young sons.
The Oscar-winning actress, 39, is mom to Jonathan, who turns six this week and Jack, two with her husband of nine years Adam Shulman, and in a new cover story with WSJ. Magazine admits that while the couple would like a third child ‘getting pregnant is not always positive’.
After hinting at her complicated fertility journey when she announced her pregnancy with Jack in 2019, Anne has now spoken about her experience in more detail.
Mother: Anne Hathaway has spoken out in a candid interview with WSJ. Magazine about her fertility struggles and life as a parent to her two young sons Jonathan, six, and Jack, two with her husband of nine years Adam Shulman
‘I could see us going for another one,’ Anne confessed of her desire for another child but caveated the statement with the challenges around fertility and pregnancy, explaining:
‘There’s this tendency to portray getting pregnant, having kids, in one light, as if it’s all positive. But I know from my own experience, it’s so much more complicated than that.’
‘When you find out that your pain is shared by others, you just think, I just feel that’s helpful information to have, so I’m not isolated in my pain,’ the Devil Wears Prada star noted. ‘I mean, what is there to be ashamed of? This is grief, and that’s a part of life.’
Back in 2019, Anne hinted at her struggles when she wrote on Instagram for her pregnancy announcement with Jack: ‘It was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies.’
Tough journey: The star admitted that while the couple would like a third child ‘getting pregnant is not always positive…I know from my own experience, it’s so much more complicated than that’
Of her role as a mother, Anne gushed that she has never felt more true to herself, telling the magazine: ‘I didn’t feel fully landed and fully here until I was a mom. It’s not like I was lacking integrity, but it made me want to be completely, on every level, true to my word. And that meant stopping any nonsense that I had going on inside myself.’
And while she knew she wanted to be an actress by age three, Anne added she ‘would strongly discourage [my sons] from starting too young.’
‘I think that they’ll be in a position where they’ll be able to go to college and figure out where they want to go from there,’ the former child star said.
Family: ‘I could see us going for another one,’ Anne confessed of her desire for another child with her husband but caveated the statement with the challenges around fertility and pregnancy (pictured February 27)
Pregnancy: Back in 2019, Anne hinted at her struggles when she wrote on Instagram for her pregnancy announcement with Jack: ‘It was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies’
Happiness: Of her role as a mother, Anne gushed that she has never felt more true to herself, telling the magazine: ‘I didn’t feel fully landed and fully here until I was a mom’
‘You have all the time in the world to be a professional actor; you can only be a child once. So I would encourage them to study, to go to classes, to read.’
Elsewhere in the interview Anne excitedly revealed that she already planning precisely how she wants to celebrate her 40th birthday.
‘I have a really tight-knit group of friends from [Vassar College],’ the 39-year-old actress explained.
Glam: For the spread, shot by photographer Dan Martensen, Anne donned a blue-striped Celine blouse (L) and a Prada sweater (R) selected by stylist Katelyn Gray
Homebody: Hairstylist Orlando Pita blew out Hathaway’s signature fringed brunette mane and make-up artist Gucci Westman brought out her natural beauty
‘And we all realized that we were just going to be celebrating each other’s birthday every other week. So we decided that we’re all going to go someplace together and have a joint 40th birthday party.’
For the spread, shot by photographer Dan Martensen, Anne donned a blue-striped Celine blouse and a Prada sweater selected by stylist Katelyn Gray.
Hairstylist Orlando Pita blew out Hathaway’s signature fringed brunette mane and make-up artist Gucci Westman brought out her natural beauty.
Milestone year: Elsewhere in the interview Anne excitedly revealed that she already planning precisely how she wants to celebrate her 40th birthday with her college friends
Anne is also excited to begin her Broadway musical career as she grows older, since there are so many ‘awesome’ roles for actresses over 50 like Woman of the Year, Mame, and Sunset Boulevard.
Hathaway – who won her Oscar for Les Misérables – exclaimed: ‘I am going to eat every last bit of scenery and then pick my teeth with the splinters!’
The Emmy winner executive produces and stars as real-life disgraced WeWork chief brand/impact officer Rebekah Neumann in the eight-episode series WeCrashed, which airs Fridays on Apple TV+.
‘The story intersected, I thought, at a lot of really interesting points – late-stage capitalism, the commodification of spirituality and toxic positivity,’ Anne mused.
New role: Anne executive produces and stars as disgraced WeWork chief brand/impact officer Rebekah Neumann in the eight-episode series WeCrashed, which airs Fridays on Apple TV+ (pictured with America Ferrera)
![Anticipated series: Hathaway mused: 'The story intersected, I thought, at a lot of really interesting points - late-stage capitalism, the commodification of spirituality and toxic positivity. Something has to be exceptional, and [my onscreen husband Jared Leto] is certainly exceptional'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/03/23/07/55686877-10642585-Hathaway_mused_The_story_intersected_I_thought_at_a_lot_of_reall-a-11_1648021957762.jpg)
Anticipated series: Hathaway mused: ‘The story intersected, I thought, at a lot of really interesting points – late-stage capitalism, the commodification of spirituality and toxic positivity. Something has to be exceptional, and [my onscreen husband Jared Leto] is certainly exceptional’
‘Something has to be exceptional, and [my onscreen husband Jared Leto] is certainly exceptional.’
Showrunners Lee Eisenberg and Drew Crevello’s adaptation of David Brown’s 2020 Wondery podcast currently has a 68% critic approval rating (out of 40 reviews) and a 75% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
WeCrashed ‘tells the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of the $50B commercial real estate startup.’
Following revelations about erratic management and business practices, the Neumanns resigned in 2019 from WeWork, which reported a $2.1B loss in May despite having 490K members.
Gwyneth Paltrow’s cousin: The real-life Adam and Rebekah Neumann (pictured in 2009) are still married to this day and share five children together
