In a new interview with Vanity Fair magazine, actress Anne Hathaway revealed that she had a miscarriage in 2015 before becoming pregnant with her first son, Jonathan. At that time, she played in the solo show “Grounded”, in which she played a pregnant woman and every night she had to “give birth” on stage as part of the role.
In the interview, Hathaway spoke openly about the difficulty she experienced when she and her husband, the Jewish-American actor Adam Shulman, tried to get pregnant. In 2019, Hathaway announced her second pregnancy on Instagram, and there you could already see that the road there was not easy. “For anyone going through fertility issues – know that it was not easy for me to get pregnant, with any of my pregnancies,” Hathaway wrote in the post.
“Considering the pain I felt when I was trying to get pregnant,” she said in an interview, “it felt wrong to bring up something that was only happy, when I know that this story is much more complex for many women.” Hathaway then revealed that it was during her most difficult time, when she had a miscarriage in 2015, that she had to play the role of a pregnant woman in the theater and give birth every night on stage.
“The first time the pregnancy did not survive, and I had to give birth on stage every night,” she said. When her friends came to visit her backstage, she told them the truth: “It was too much to hold it in when I was on stage and pretending everything was fine, I had to be honest with them. And then when I did get pregnant, after being on the other side of things – I was Must tell women, ‘You don’t always have to be graceful, I see you, I was you.'”
Hathaway has two sons with Shulman – 7-year-old Jonathan and 3-year-old Jack. Of what happened after she first posted about her fertility issues, she said, “The thing that broke my heart, and gave me hope, was that for three years after that post, almost every day, women came up to me in tears and I just held them, because they were carrying the All this pain and suddenly it’s not just theirs anymore.” She added, “I didn’t want to be ashamed of something that is statistically really normal.”