Anne Hathaway has spoken candidly about becoming pregnant at 43, describing how slim the odds can feel later in life and why the news left her and Adam Shulman feeling “overjoyed.”
The actor revealed her pregnancy publicly on Instagram on June 19, sharing a video in which she first hid and then showed her baby bump.
“Baby, I’m yours.”
Hathaway and Shulman are already parents to two sons, Jonathan and Jack. Their family has remained largely private, with Hathaway occasionally opening up about motherhood while keeping most details out of the spotlight.
While attending the New York premiere of Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, Hathaway reflected on the emotional uncertainty that came with trying for another baby in her 40s.
“There’s always hope until there’s not, but when you get to a certain age, that hope looks like one to two percent.”
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Speaking to Access Hollywood, she said that she and Shulman chose to let events unfold naturally and kept their expectations grounded, knowing the chances were low.
“We’re overjoyed because we just know from personal experience that not everybody gets this, and certainly not when you want it—sometimes not ever.”
Hathaway later said the pregnancy came as a genuine surprise, joking that she and Shulman were “shocked” by the timing and calling it their “buzzer-beater.”
Hathaway has previously been open about the more painful side of pregnancy as well. In the past, she discussed suffering a miscarriage in 2015 while performing in the six-week off-Broadway run of the one-woman show Grounded.
She also addressed those struggles when announcing her second pregnancy in 2019, making clear that her own journey to motherhood had not been straightforward.
“It’s not for a movie… All kidding aside, for everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love.”
In 2024, she revisited that post in an interview with Vanity Fair, explaining that she did not want to present a version of pregnancy that ignored the hardship many people experience.
“would’ve felt disingenuous to post something all the way happy”
“the story is much more nuanced than that for everyone”
She went on to explain why she felt it mattered to acknowledge that reality publicly.
“The first time it didn’t work out for me. I was doing a play and I had to give birth onstage every night. It was too much to keep it in when I was onstage pretending everything was fine. I had to keep it real otherwise.
“So when it did go well for me, having been on the other side of it – where you have to have the grace to be happy for someone – I wanted to let my sisters know: ‘You don’t have to always be graceful. I see you and I’ve been you.’
“It’s really hard to want something so much and to wonder if you’re doing something wrong.”
Her pregnancy also comes at a busy professional moment. Hathaway has been promoting The Odyssey, which reunites her with Nolan and has kept her in the public eye throughout the summer.
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