American actress Anne Hathaway confirmed that she suffered a miscarriage in 2015 while portraying a pregnant character in a film.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, the actress opened up about her pregnancy and said that it did not work out as she had to act in the childbirth scene for the play every night. 

“It was too much to keep it in,” she said.

She said that she pretended that everything was fine. However, she could not restrain herself and cried out the truth to her friends when they visited backstage.

Hathaway experienced a miscarriage during her role as a pilot who falls pregnant in the off-Broadway show Grounded, which continued for six weeks in 2015. The character needed Hathaway to perform a childbirth scene every night.

The actress welcomed her first son, Jonathan, in 2016 with her husband, Adam Shulman.

In 2019, Hathaway posted on social media that she was pregnant again.

She posted about the whole matter on social media, saying, “It’s not for a movie. All kidding aside, for everyone going through infertility and conception hell, please know it was not a straight line to either of my pregnancies. Sending you extra love.”

Hathaway provided a reason for this post in an interview: she felt hurt trying to be pregnant again, and she was not ashamed of this post as many women experience this. 

“I thought, Where is this information? Why are we feeling so unnecessarily isolated? That’s where we take on damage. So I decided that I was going to talk about it,” she said. 

She also found out that many of her friends had had similar experiences.

“When it did go well for me, having been on the other side of it, where you have to have the grace to be happy for someone, I wanted to let my sisters know, ‘You don’t have to always be graceful,’” she shared as she had another baby, Jack, in 2019.