Anne Hathaway has opened up about a painful time in her life, nearly ten years ago, when she suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage. Though she is now a grateful mother of two, she recalled the overwhelming experience and how it was all the more difficult to process because of her work at the time.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the actress described how she portrayed a pregnant woman in the play Grounded when she lost her first pregnancy.
“The first time, it didn’t work out for me,” she told the outlet. “I was doing a play and I had to give birth onstage every night.” Grounded, a one-woman show that ran for six weeks from April 2015 off-Broadway, tells the story of a U.S. Air Force pilot whose career is turned upside down when she gets pregnant.
“I was onstage pretending everything was fine,” she explained. “I had to keep it real otherwise.”
While she counts her blessings with the two children, Jonathan Rosebanks Shulman and Jack Shulman, she’s since had with her husband, Adam Shulman, the The Idea of You star wanted to emphasise her empathy with other women struggling with their fertility.
“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.”
