Anne Hathaway shut down a fan’s gender reveal question with a quick-witted comeback at the Disney Legends Awards.
Hathaway, 43, was accepting her Disney Legend honor at D23 in Anaheim, Calif., on Sunday when a spectator shouted “boy or girl!” From the crowd as she stepped onstage. The Oscar winner, who is pregnant with her third child with husband Adam Shulman, fired back without missing a beat.
“Oh, just be patient,” Hathaway quipped, prompting laughter from the audience. She wasn’t finished. After the laughs died down, she cradled her baby bump and added, “You’re gonna find out in about five minutes,” referencing how close she is to her due date.
The actress has made clear she has no plans to share the sex of her baby publicly. During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live earlier this summer, she told the host flatly, “We’re not saying.”
Hathaway and Shulman are already parents to sons Jonathan, 10, and Jack, 6. She announced her third pregnancy on June 19 with an Instagram video showing her in a white dress, cradling her belly, captioned “x Baby, I’m yours x.”
The pregnancy has been what she calls a “buzzer-beater.” Speaking to Access Hollywood at The Odyssey premiere in New York on July 14, Hathaway explained the nickname’s meaning. “There’s always hope until there’s not, but when you get to a certain age, that hope looks like 1% to 2%,” she said. “So we just decided to see where life took us, with a very, very healthy, realistic expectation, which was very low,” She added, “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.”
On Late Night with Seth Meyers last month, Hathaway raved about how the pregnancy has felt. “Oh, my gosh. It’s amazing. It’s amazing,” she told Meyers. “I mean, we knew what we were doing, but we were so shocked it worked,” She continued, “We were so shocked it went this way, so we’re calling this one our buzzer-beater.”
In the viral moment that sparked online skepticism, Hathaway attended the world premiere of The End of Oak Street in Los Angeles on Aug. 9 wearing a baby-blue silk crop top with a cascading train and low-rise jeans that exposed her bare bump. The look immediately drew attention, with some social media users accusing her of wearing a prosthetic pregnancy belly. Comments on TikTok and X included claims that the bump was “so perfectly round and photo ready it looks straight off the Amazon ‘silicone baby bump 6 8 months’ listing” and that her pregnancy looked unnatural because she had only gained weight in her midsection.
Hathawa responded directly on Instagram with a behind-the-scenes video from the premiere. “Fake hair, real bump,” she wrote in the caption, adding a string of emojis. “Enjoy The @endofoakstreet Block Party chaos with me as my outfit literally melts in the heat!!” The clip also caught her telling the camera, “It’s not my hair.”
The actress has been open about embracing motherhood on her own terms. She shared with theskimm that mothers do not need to lose their identity, noting you do not have to “hand in your person card” just because you have a baby. She has described motherhood as a “beautiful ongoing poem” and a fun, chaotic adventure.
Hathaway’s D23 appearance came during a remarkably prolific year that has already included starring roles in The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, and Mother Mary, with The End of Oak Street now in theaters and the Colleen Hoover adaptation Verity scheduled for October.