Anne Hathaway has opened up about suffering a miscarriage in 2015 while acting as a pregnant woman in a play.
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The actress, 41, said her first pregnancy "didn't work out", adding: "I was doing a play and I had to give birth on stage every night.
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Hathaway, who has since had two sons, says that during the six-week show, she "pretended everything was fine".
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Hathaway played a pilot who falls pregnant in the one-woman off-Broadway show Grounded, which ran for six weeks in 2015
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The performance required her to act out going through childbirth every night.It was during this time that Hathaway experienced a miscarriage.
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The Devil Wears Prada star went on to welcome her first son, Jonathan, with husband Adam Shulman in March 2016.
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After suffering her miscarriage, Hathaway said she was stunned to find out how common miscarriages are.
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Given the pain I felt while trying to get pregnant," she said, "it would've felt disingenuous to post something all the way happy when I know the story is much more nuanced than that for everyone.
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She added she "wasn't going to feel ashamed" of something that seemed "statistically to actually be quite normal".
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The couple's second son, Jack, was born in November 2019.