Two awkward Oscar situations.
Fat-shaming.
Depression.
Cyberbullying.
Infertility.
Much has happened to actress Anne Hathaway since she first graced the screen.
Keep watching to learn it all.
While Anne Hathaway's role in "The Princess Diaries" may have made her seem like the ultimate
teen queen to fans, her real life at the time was apparently far from a fairytale.
People reported that during her adolescence, Hathaway suffered from depression and anxiety,
but wasn't willing to take medication to treat it.
She may have regretted that decision though.
She later reflected to Tatler about her old self, saying,
"I am sorry she was hurting for so long."
It appears Hathaway dealt with a lot of internal struggles growing up.
She revealed on ABC News' "Popcorn with Peter Travers,"
"I disliked myself so intensely.
[...] It was just a mindset.
I didn't know how to love myself, which meant I didn't know how to love anybody."
"When I was growing up, happiness, it seemed like it could just never happen to me.
I just had too many issues."
Even after landing acting roles in her late teens, Hathaway confessed on People's "The
Jess Cagle Interview" show that she still had feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, nervousness
and anxiety.
These days, Hathaway has seemingly found herself in a happier place, partially thanks to her
family.
She gushed to Peter Travers,
"I feel really lucky — I get to do what I love.
[...] I'm with the right guy, and we make each other happy [...] And we have been given
the most beautiful gift of our son."
Anne Hathaway has dealt with people commenting on her weight for a long time.
She told Allure it started when she was 16, recalling,
"It was 'Congratulations, you have the part [...] don't gain weight.'
Which of course means you need to lose weight."
As her career progressed, Hathaway eventually turned to unhealthy ways to stay thin.
Speaking with Jess Cagle for People in 2019, she recalled awards season a decade earlier,
sharing that she, quote, "barely ate anything" over the holidays and thought that movie stars
had to have a certain seemingly unattainable body.
She shared,
“I was just smoking my nerves away and I just wasn't nourishing myself."
Hathaway also told Cagle that the weight loss for her role in "Les Misérables" hurt her
in the long run, physically.
She explained that it took a really long time to come back from it, as she’d lost a lot
of weight in just two weeks.
Her unhealthy dieting was presumably encouraged by the fat-shaming she says she experienced
quite often, telling "Today" that she would receive both overt and micro insults.
Hathaway has since changed the way she approaches her body and the haters.
In 2018, she posted on Instagram,
"I am gaining weight for a movie role.
[...] To all the people who are going to fat shame me in the upcoming months, it's not
me, it's you."
Before Anne Hathaway found her happily-ever-after with her husband Adam Shulman, the star was
in a serious relationship with Italian real estate developer Raffaello Follieri.
According to Vanity Fair, Hathaway met Follieri through a mutual friend in 2004, confessing,
"It was totally love at first sight."
It seemed that Follieri was her perfect man, considering that she gushed to Harpers Bazaar,
"My boyfriend is incredible in a lot of ways but when it comes to his charity...
One of the most untouted aphrodisiacs in the world is charity work."
However, Hathaway apparently learned the hard way that Follieri wasn't who she thought he was.
In 2008, he was arrested for fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy.
Hathaway promptly dumped him, explaining to W magazine,
"The rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden [...] As soon as I found out about
the arrest, I had to get on a plane to Mexico to do a press tour for 'Get Smart.'
And then I spent a week in shock at a friend's house."
Even after the split and his conviction, Follieri continued to humiliate Hathaway by telling
the Daily Mail that she ditched him in his time of need.
He claimed,
"Annie's last words were 'I love you forever' [...] I was arrested.
I never spoke to Annie again [...] She decided saving her career was most important."
In 2019, Follieri told Radar he was considering writing a tell-all, dishing,
"I know the public is looking for a more detailed story."
It's safe to say that the early 2000s were good to Anne Hathaway, thanks to a string
of high-profile movie roles in "The Devil Wears Prada," "Brokeback Mountain," and other projects.
Yet, things took a major turn in 2013 after she accepted an Academy Award for her role
in "Les Misérables."
According to the New York Post, her stiff sounding speech and ill-fitting gown resulted
in people criticized Hathaway for apparently trying too hard.
Things got so bad that major publications like The New York Times and Salon covered
how fans turned on Hathaway, and the term "Hathahate" was coined.
Howard Stern addressed it on his show, saying,
"Everyone sort of hates Anne Hathaway [...] She's just so affected [and] actress-y that even
when she wins an award [...] it all seems so scripted and acted."
A blogger for Crushable took it further, writing,
"I feel like she's not a real person.
[...] I find it annoying."
The shade almost ruined Hathaway's career, but she continued to work and defend herself.
The star explained to Harpers Bazaar that after playing Fantine in "Les Misérables,"
she found herself still acting out the victim mentality.
Hathaway reiterated to The Guardian,
"I kind of lost my mind doing that movie [...] I had to stand up in front of people and feel
something I don't feel which is uncomplicated happiness [...] I tried to pretend that I
was happy and I got called out on it, big time."
"In the end, though, I kinda screwed it up."
Once the "Hathahate" started, it seemed Anne Hathaway couldn't go online without facing cyberbullying.
She recalled on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that she had been googling stuff with friends
when the story came out, titled “Why Does Everybody Hate Anne Hathaway?”
That experience hurt her deeply, and it took a lot for her to overcome the feeling that
what the trolls were saying was true.
She explained,
"I listened at first.
I couldn't help it [...] and then I realized why I couldn't [...] If you don't love yourself
when someone else says horrible things to you, a part of you is always going to believe them."
Hathaway also owned up to some of the criticism, telling Harpers Bazaar that she messed up
when accepting the Oscar for best film that "Les Misérables" won.
She admitted that it was rude for her to speak before her collaborators took the stage with her.
"Someday I might grow out of that, but you, you will never stop being a jerk!"
Yet, she apparently was no longer going to put up with rudeness, either.
She told a writer at Jezebel that she stopped reading their website, explaining,
"I would just be reading about something totally unrelated to me and [see] a headline about
me and how much your site dislikes me."
She also called them out for bringing up the "Hathahate" in their interview, saying,
"I think it's weird that it continues to be talked about [...] I am ready for the conversation
to move to a place beyond it."
Anne Hathaway has expressed her discomfort with heavy alcohol intake while parenting,
so much so that she decided to pause her drinking.
Having started consuming alcohol a lot in college, it only increased overtime.
She said on "Popcorn with Peter Travers,"
"It's never gotten in the way of me being able to do work, but I think it was approaching
an unhealthy level."
By January 2019, Hathaway revealed to Ellen that she had quit drinking for a commitment
of 18 years.
She explained,
"I'm gonna stop drinking while my son's living in my house just because I don't totally love
the way I do it."
She later told Tatler about a particular incident that led to the change — a five-day hangover
after a day-to-night period of social drinking.
She said,
"I will never be that person who can nurse a glass of wine throughout an entire evening."
Hathaway did clarify to Boston Common,
"I didn't put [a drink] down because my drinking was a problem; I put it down because the way
I drink leads me to have hangovers."
Yet she doesn't intend to stay sober forever, sharing that she plans to resume drinking
once she's an empty-nester.
Anne Hathaway had a hard time trying to conceive her second child.
Because of that, once she did get pregnant, she used her announcement to let those who
may be struggling with infertility know that they're not alone.
She captioned an Instagram photo of her baby bump, writing,
"For everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a
straight line to either of my pregnancies."
Hathaway later admitted to the Daily Mail,
"Each time I was trying to get pregnant and it wasn't going my way, someone else would
manage to conceive [...] What I hated was when people would say: 'What's taking you
so long?'
Or they'd try to put a pretty bow on what was happening to me [...] I would just think
[...] 'I'm fairly devastated right now, so whatever you say, I'm still going to feel
that way.'"
Hathaway explained that was why she shared her struggles with fans.
She was embarrassed by her feelings, but the reactions from other women helped her the most.
Hathaway told the Daily Mail,
"When I said to them: 'This has happened to me, it broke my heart, it broke me,' so many
of them said: 'It happened to me, too,' and that was the thing that allowed me to come
through it, to feel my pain without having anyone rush in to define it or cure it."
Anne Hathaway has come a long way on her journey to finding self-acceptance, but it took awhile
for her to get there, especially since she seemingly used to be her own worst critic.
As she admitted to Jess Cagle for People,
“I just figured out how to say thank you to life by taking care of myself.
By not apologizing for taking up space, which is not something I knew how to do 10 years ago."
"You have no idea."
Hathaway credits her husband, Adam Shulman, for helping shift her perspective.
She gushed to Elle,
"He changed my ability to be in the world comfortably [...] His unique and specific
love has changed me."
She also uses coping mechanisms to process the negativity she used to internalize.
She dished to Town & Country that she writes her worries down on paper then sets it on fire.
Additionally, Hathaway is more careful with how she portrays herself so that she doesn't
have to deal with more criticism.
She told Elle,
"Now I watch my words.
It's just, what's the worst thing that could happen?
Probably already happened."
And when it comes to Hathaway's path to finding self-worth, she confessed to Cagle,
"It's been a journey.
I don't look that different, but I just feel like the inside has just transformed so much.
You could say that the 2011 Academy Awards weren't just a blow to Anne Hathaway's thriving
career, but the event almost cost her a friendship.
She co-hosted that year's show alongside "Pineapple Express" actor James Franco for what was supposed
to be a young, fresh take on the Oscars.
It was a major bust, with Hathaway admitting to The Hollywood Reporter that she came across
as manic and cheerleader-like, with Franco accused of being stoned.
Vanity Fair even described it as one of the most cringy nights in Oscar history.
Franco defended himself on "The Late Show with David Letterman" by ragging his co-host,
claiming,
"The Tasmanian Devil would look stoned standing next to Anne Hathaway."
Hathaway called him out too, though, telling Harpers Bazaar,
"I let James know that a whirling dervish is a more flattering comparison than a Tasmanian devil."
Franco later told Howard Stern that he and Hathaway had made amends, despite the nasty critics.
Though Hathaway managed to rebound from the ordeal, she regretted not going with her gut.
She told People,
"I turned that gig down, and James is the one that convinced me to do it.
[...] When all the dust settled, I was just like, you've gotta be kidding me."
On the bright side, Hathaway did point out to Harpers Bazaar,
"In the grand scheme of things, I got to have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
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