Anne Hathawaywants women struggling with getting pregnant to know that they’re not alone.
The 36-year-old actress — who announced on Wednesday that she’sexpecting her second childwith husbandAdam Shulman— said in an interview with theAssociated Pressover the weekend that it was important to her to be honest that pregnancy didn’t come easy for her in an effort to not make others “feel even more isolated.”
“I didn’t just wave a magic wand and be like, ‘I want to be pregnant and, wow, it all worked out for me.’ It’s more complicated than that,’ ” said theModern Lovestar during her appearanceat a Television Critics Association panel. ” ‘Gosh, admire my bump now!’ It wasn’t like that.”
Hathaway (who also shares 3-year-old sonJonathan Rosebankswith Shulman) mused about the “very one-size-fits-all approach to getting pregnant” she feels which, despite the “happy time” in “the majority of cases,” doesn’t apply to all people trying to conceive.
“[For] a lot of people who are trying to get pregnant, that’s not really the story. Or that’s one part of the story,” she told the AP. “And the steps that lead up to that part of the story arereally painful and very isolatingand full of self-doubt. And I went through that.”
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The Oscar winner revealed that she was “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.”
“I just wanted them to know they have a sister in me,” she said. “Our sisterhood is amazing, and we were kept from each other for a really long time because I think we were kept from our own stories. Andwe get to decide where thesilence lives and where it goes away.”
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“It’s not for a movie …#2,” she captioned the post, going on to hint that getting pregnant wasn’t exactly an easy journey for her and her husband of almost seven years.
source: people.com
