Anne Hathaway is here to remind you the road to happiness is paved with less-than-happy moments.
The Oscar winner opened up about her second pregnancy at the Television Critics Association summer press tour in Beverly Hills on Saturday, where she revealed how excited she was to be expecting her second child with husband Adam Schulman.
While A-Hath told ET she was “really happy” about giving her three-year-old son Jonathan a sibling, she admitted her pregnancy journey “didn’t just have happy moments,” as some people might assume.
The comment came after reporters commended the 36-year-old for her candid pregnancy announcement on Instagram, in which she noted “it was not a straight line to either of pregnancies.”
Elaborating on her message, the actress said:
“There is a one-sided narrative to this, and of course it’s wonderful that we celebrate the happy moment when it’s ready to share. I think there is a silence around the moments before that and they are not all happy, and in fact a lot of them are quite painful. I think that pain is that these women feel like we’re the only ones going through it.”
Explaining how she didn’t want others to feel worse about their own pregnancy journeys, she continued:
“I just knew that somewhere my announcement was going to make somebody feel worse about themselves because — and it wouldn’t be their fault that that happened — you just can’t help it when you want something so bad and it feels like it’s happening to everyone else but you. And I just wanted that person to know that they’re included in my story too and that my story didn’t just have happy moments too.”
While she awaits her baby’s arrival, the star is keeping busy promoting her new project Modern Love — an eight-episode romantic comedy anthology series on Amazon. Hathaway and costar Gary Carr’s episode follows a woman (Hathaway) who is trying to accept that she is bipolar while trying to find romantic bliss.
She said of her installment, titled Take Me As I Am:
“Our episode is an episode of hope. And I think our episode talks about how whatever you are going through, something even as extreme as bipolar disorder, all you need is one person to see you and it can open up the rest of your life. I think one of the things we are learning about is that the stigma that surrounds mental health is not helping anybody. It’s not helping people who are diagnosed with mental disorders, and it’s not helping the people that love them.”
The series premieres Friday, October 18, on Amazon Prime.
As for her pregnancy journey, The Hustle star didn’t go into detail about the non-happy moments she experienced — but we applaud her for giving a shout-out to all those who are, as she put it in her post, “going through infertility and conception hell.”
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