“I had to give birth on stage every night.”
American actress Anne Hathaway revealed on Monday March 25 that she suffered a miscarriage in 2015, while she played a pregnant woman in a play.
In a long interview given to Vanity Fair magazine, of which she is on the cover for the month of April, the 41-year-old actress returned to this painful episode that she initially had to face alone.
“The first time, it didn’t work for me”
Anne Hathaway was questioned about how she announced her pregnancies on social media.
In 2019, for her second child, she published a photo on Instagram and sent a thought in the caption to those who face difficulties in conceiving a child: “To all those who are going through the hell of infertility, know that It hasn't been a smooth journey for each of my pregnancies.
Sending you lots of love.”
Speaking to Vanity Fair, she explained this choice and confided the difficulties she encountered on the path that led her to motherhood: “In view of everything I felt when I was trying to get pregnant, I told myself that it would have been dishonest to simply post my joy when I know very well that it is much more complicated than that.
The first time, it didn’t work for me,” she admitted.
In 2015, the actress played a show called “Grounded” for six weeks on Broadway, in which she played a pregnant woman, alone on stage.
It was at this time that she suffered a miscarriage, while trying to have her first child with her husband Adam Shulman.
“I was playing and I had to give birth on stage every night,” she summarized.
“No need to always pretend”
She ended up sharing her situation with her friends, who came to meet her backstage after performances: "It was too hard to keep it to myself when I was on stage and pretend everything was okay."
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Anne Hathaway mainly wanted to help women who find themselves in this situation at some point.
When she shared her story in 2015, she learned that several of her friends had experienced the same thing.
“When everything went well for me, I wanted to remind other women that there was no need to always pretend.
I see you and I have been like you.
“It's really hard to want something so much and wonder if you're doing something wrong,” she insisted.
The actress and her husband have since had two children, Jonathan Rosebanks, born in 2016, and Jack, born in 2019.