Anne Hathaway Says Getting Pregnant And Having Kids Isn’t ‘All Positive’: ‘It’s Much More Complicated Than That’

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Anne Hathaway wants to point out that pregnancy isn’t always a positive experience. The actress, who shares sons Jonathan, 5, and Jack, 2, with husband Adam Shulman, tells WSJ.

Magazine of motherhood: “I didn’t feel fully landed and fully here until I was a mom. “It’s not like I was lacking integrity, but it made me want to be completely, on every level, true to my word. “And that meant stopping any nonsense that I had going on inside myself.

And it’s little breaks that you give yourself sometimes when you know that you’re not being your best self.” Hathaway, who has been promoting her new Apple TV+ series “wecrashed”, says of potentially having more kids, “I could see us going for another one.” However, she adds: “There’s this tendency to portray getting pregnant, having kids, in one light, as if it’s all positive.

But I know from my own experience… it’s so much more complicated than that. “And when you find out that your pain is shared by others… you just think, I just feel that’s helpful information to have, so I’m not isolated in my pain.” READ MORE: Anne Hathaway Was ‘So Inspired’ By Jared Leto’s ‘Immersive’ Acting Method In ‘wecrashed’ Hathaway also reveals what she’d do if her sons wanted to act: “I would probably take the same tack that my parents did with me, which is: You have all the time in the world to be a professional actor; you can only be a child once.