WOMEN+POWER: Anne Hathaway

From the outside looking in, Anne Hathaway is thriving. She’s going to release three more films on the 2026 movie schedule, and she just announced that she’s pregnant with her third child! However, the good tends to come with a bit of bad, too, as the actress noted while talking about the struggles she’s had with pregnancy before.

While Hathaway was already having a big year with the releases of Mother Mary and The Devil Wears Prada 2, it just got bigger as she will be welcoming a new member to her family. However, her recent announcement conjured memories from 2019 when she was pregnant with her second child. During an interview with AP News, she opened up about how trying to conceive wasn’t as easy as people may have though.

“I think that we have a very one-size-fits-all approach to getting pregnant. And you get pregnant and for the majority of cases, this is a really happy time,” Hathaway said.

“But a lot of people who are trying to get pregnant; that’s not really the story. Or that’s one part of the story. And the steps that lead up to that part of the story are really painful and very isolating and full of self-doubt. And I went through that,” she said.

Hathaway is lending awareness to a very real issue that many women face. It is a common misconception that getting pregnant is easy. But the reality is that the road to getting there can be challenging, whether it’s facing the strains of miscarriages or failing to conceive.

“I didn’t just wave a magic wand and, ‘I want to be pregnant and, wow, it all worked out for me, gosh, admire my bump now!’ It’s more complicated than that,” Hathaway said. “I was just aware of the fact that when it came time to post that I was pregnant, somebody was going to feel even more isolated because of it. And I just wanted them to know they have a sister in me.”