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Anne Hathaway suffers a miscarriage while playing a pregnant woman on stage

Anne Hathaway suffers a miscarriage while playing a pregnant woman on stage

By Mounira Magdy

Published: March 27, 2024

Anne Hathaway recounted a difficult moment in her journey to motherhood, saying that she experienced a miscarriage in 2015 while acting in a play where she had to "give birth on stage every night."

The Oscar-winning actress and mother of two said in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine published on Monday: "The first time it didn't work out for me. I was acting in a play and had to give birth on stage every night."

Her miscarriage happened six weeks into an off-Broadway one-woman show titled "Grounded," according to Vanity Fair magazine.

Hathaway said she "had to keep it real" with her friends when they visited her backstage after performances. "It was so hard to hold it in while I was on stage pretending everything was fine."

"So when things went right for me, where I was on the other side of it – where you must have the grace to be happy for someone – I wanted to tell my sisters, 'You don’t always have to be graceful,'" she continued, bursting out: "I see you and I was you."

She added: "It's really hard to want something that much and wonder if you're doing something wrong."

The 41-year-old, who said she has become kinder since becoming a mother, has two children with her husband Adam Shulman.

When she announced her second pregnancy in 2019, she wrote in an Instagram post: "This isn't for a movie... #2," adding: "Joking aside, to anyone struggling with infertility and hellish pregnancies, please know none of mine were normal. Sending you more love."

Reflecting on that moment, the star of "Les Misérables" said: "Considering the pain I felt while trying to conceive... I could have felt deceived posting something happy all along when I know the story is much more complex than that."

She added: "I wouldn’t have felt ashamed of something that statistically seemed perfectly normal to me."

About 10% to 20% of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and the actual number is likely higher, according to Mayo Clinic.

Hathaway said she was shocked when she learned many of her friends had similar experiences.

She said: "Why do we feel unnecessary isolation? That’s where the harm is done. So I decided I was going to talk about it." "What broke my heart, blew my mind, and gave me hope was that for three years after that, almost daily, a woman would come to me crying and I would hold her, because she was carrying this [pain] everywhere. And suddenly, it was no longer all just for her."

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