Anne Hathaway’s Best Quotes About Motherhood, Parenting

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Anne Hathaway’s Best Quotes About Motherhood, Parenting With Adam Shulman

Anne Hathaway tends to maintain her sons out of the general public eye, however that hasn’t stopped her from sometimes opening up about how Jonathan and Jack have modified her life.

The actress wed Adam Shulman in September 2012 in California, 4 years earlier than welcoming their first baby.

In July 2019, the Princess Diaries star introduced that child No. 2 was on the way in which after experiencing fertility struggles. “It’s not for a movie,” the New York native captioned her Instagram child bump debut on the time. “All kidding apart, for everybody going by way of infertility and conception hell, please realize it was not a straight line to both of my pregnancies. Sending you further love.”

The Devil Wears Prada star’s second son arrived 5 months later. While Us Weekly revealed the toddler’s identify, Jack, in January 2020, she waited till October of that very same 12 months to verify the moniker.

As for her personal identify, Hathaway instructed Jimmy Fallon in January 2021 that followers had been calling her by the inaccurate one.

“Call me Annie, all people. Everybody, name me Annie, please,” the Golden Globe winner stated throughout an look on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Anything but Anne.”

Only her mother, Kate Hathaway, calls her that, Anne clarified, saying, “So each time I step out in public and somebody calls my identify, I believe they are going to yell at me.”

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She and Shulman have stored their relationship non-public since tying the knot, however the Emmy winner gushed to Elle journal concerning the jewellery designer in March 2017.

“He changed my ability to be in the world comfortably,” the Ocean’s 8 star told the magazine at the time. “I believe the accepted narrative now’s that we, as ladies, don’t want anyone. But I would like my husband. His distinctive and particular love has modified me.”

She beforehand known as the primary 12 months of their marriage “insane” in September 2014, telling Elle UK: “So much happened so fast, and we didn’t get to focus on just being married until about a year in. So now, it’s just about letting myself feel safe. There was a part of me that I was keeping in reserve, and when I got married, something shifted. That question of, ‘How long’s this gonna last?’ is off the table. And when you’re not worried about that, there’s space to just be silly.”

Keep scrolling to check out the Oscar winner’s finest quotes about parenting with Shulman, from sobriety to guilt.

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The Impact of Motherhood

During an interview with WSJ. Magazine revealed in March 2022, Hathaway famous that she felt “fully landed and fully here” after turning into a mother or father. 

“It’s not like I was lacking integrity, but it made me want to be completely, on every level, true to my word,” she shared on the time. “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.”

The WeCrashed star additionally addressed the issues that include being pregnant whereas discussing potential plans to proceed increasing her household. “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,” she added.

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Sorry, Santa

Hathaway’s eldest son believes “everything” she tells him, which is why she bribes him to behave with Santa Claus threats, the actress instructed Jimmy Fallon in January 2021. “It’s so powerful.”

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New Normal

“There’s obviously a learning curve,” Hathaway told Stellar magazine in November 2020 of parenting during a pandemic. “You just have to be kind to yourself with that because you do feel like you’re doing everything wrong, especially in the early days.”

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Happy Halloween

“Jonathan is very into the Cars movie franchise, so he is going to be Lightning McQueen and Adam will be Doc Hudson,” Hathaway told Drew Barrymore in October 2020 of her eldest son’s costume choice. “And Jack, who’s 11 months previous, is climbing on all the things, so he’ll be a monkey. And I’m going to be holding him all night time, so I can be a tree.”

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Mixed Feelings

“I don’t know, the world is really scary,” Hathaway stated throughout an October 2020 Jimmy Kimmel Live! look when requested about child No. 3. “Some minutes, I’m like, ‘Yes, absolutely,’ and some minutes the world scares me too much and I think I’ve got two healthy ones and that feels really great. So I don’t really know yet.”

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Brotherly Bond

“Jack’s big enough to wrestle with, and that’s brought a new element to their relationship that’s really cute,” Hathaway gushed of her two sons throughout an October 2020 Live With Kelly and Ryan look.

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Proud Mom

“This is him,” the Modern Love star gushed to a different Critics’ Choice Awards attendee in January 2020, a supply instructed Us solely. Hathaway confirmed off a photograph of her second son wrapped in a navy and yellow blanket.

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Honesty Hour

“My son hates my singing voice,” Hathaway admitted to Extra in October 2019. “Right now, he is very into ‘The Lion King.’ He’s Simba, of course, and my husband is Mufasa. I am Zazu.I am the annoying, nasal, officious Zazu, so I am allowed to sing now, but only as a nasal British man.”

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Baby No. 2

The Oscar winner introduced her second being pregnant in July 2019, writing, “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.”

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Mom’s Motivation

“A big reason why I’m doing it is just an off chance that [Jonathan] has a memory of hanging out with Cookie Monster,” the Oscar winner instructed Us in May 2019 of becoming a member of the Sesame Street film. “I’m a big fan of Snuffleupagus. I love Snuffy, but my son is all about Cookie Monster. All about Cookie Monster.”

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Bye to Booze

“I’m going to stop drinking while my son is in my house just because I don’t totally love the way I do it,” Hathaway admitted on the Ellen DeGeneres Show in January 2019. “He’s getting to an age where he really does need me all the time in the mornings. I did one school run one day where I dropped him off at school, I wasn’t driving, but I was hungover, and that was enough for me. I didn’t love that one.”

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Tone Deaf

“He just hates my voice,” the actress admitted on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in January 2019. “He hates it. I’m not allowed to sing in my own house anymore.”

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Insta Regret

“I had by no means posted a photograph of my son, and I made a decision to put up a shot of the again of his head, and virtually as quickly as I’d finished it, I wanted that I hadn’t,” the Les Miserablés star revealed in an April 2017 Jezebel interview. “I felt like I had damaged some form of a seal in inviting folks into my life. And although I felt as if I had finished it in as protecting a means as I may, although it was a second I used to be extremely pleased with, I don’t know that I’ll ever do it once more.”

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Mute the Mom Guilt

“When Johnny was per week previous and I used to be holding him and I used to be within the ninth degree of ecstasy, I simply impulsively thought, ‘Mommy guilt is invented nonsense,’” the actress stated in an April 2017 Elle cowl story. “We’re encouraged to judge each other, but we should be turning our focus to the people and institutions who should be supporting us and currently aren’t.”

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Key Questions

“I’m happy when things are simple,” the brand new mother revealed to Metro in May 2017. “Since having a kid, I find it a lot easier to do that. The day begins with a checklist: Is he breathing? Is he healthy? Is he growing? Is he thriving? If I get four yeses it’s really hard to upset my day.”

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Baring Her Belly

“I hadn’t planned on ever confirming it and then I just, I had seen a photographer while I was on vacation, taking a photo, and I just thought, ‘It’s such a joyful and a sacred experience, you know, carrying life,'” Hathaway told E! News in May 2016 of her pregnancy reveal. “And I just thought, ‘I don’t want the first version of this to be out there with me covering or scowling at someone. That’s not representative of the experience, so I chose a photo that I was happy with, and I put it out there.”

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Following in Royal Footsteps

The Oscar winner admitted to the Sunday Times in February 2019 that she realized parenting recommendation from Prince William and Duchess Kate. “They get down on the child’s level and speak to them eye to eye to make their child feel empowered,” she stated. “I thought that was really cool. I started doing that with Jonathan.”