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 keep her sons out of the public eye, but that hasn’t stopped her from occasionally opening up about how Jonathan and Jack have changed her life.

The actress wed Adam Shulman in September 2012 in California, four years before welcoming their first child.

In July 2019, the Princess Diaries star announced that baby No. 2 was on the way after experiencing fertility struggles. “It’s not for a movie,” the New York native captioned her Instagram baby bump debut at the time. “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.”

The Devil Wears Prada star’s second son arrived five months later. While Us Weekly revealed the little one’s name, Jack, in January 2020, she waited until October of that same year to confirm the moniker.

As for her own name, Hathaway told Jimmy Fallon in January 2021 that fans had been calling her by the incorrect one.

“Call me Annie, everybody. Everybody, call me Annie, please,” the Golden Globe winner said during an appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Anything but Anne.”

Only her mom, Kate Hathaway, calls her that, Anne clarified, saying, “So every time I step out in public and someone calls my name, I think they’re going to yell at me.”

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She and Shulman have kept their relationship private since tying the knot, but the Emmy winner gushed to Elle magazine about the jewelry 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 think the accepted narrative now is that we, as women, don’t need anybody. But I need my husband. His unique and specific love has changed me.”

She previously called the first year 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 take a look at the Oscar winner’s best quotes about parenting with Shulman, from sobriety to guilt.

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

Anne Hathaway tends to keep her sons out of the public eye, but that hasn’t stopped her from occasionally opening up about how Jonathan and Jack have changed her life.

The actress wed Adam Shulman in September 2012 in California, four years before welcoming their first child.

In July 2019, the Princess Diaries star announced that baby No. 2 was on the way after experiencing fertility struggles. “It’s not for a movie,” the New York native captioned her Instagram baby bump debut at the time. “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.”

The Devil Wears Prada star’s second son arrived five months later. While Us Weekly revealed the little one’s name, Jack, in January 2020, she waited until October of that same year to confirm the moniker.

As for her own name, Hathaway told Jimmy Fallon in January 2021 that fans had been calling her by the incorrect one.

“Call me Annie, everybody. Everybody, call me Annie, please,” the Golden Globe winner said during an appearance on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “Anything but Anne.”

Only her mom, Kate Hathaway, calls her that, Anne clarified, saying, “So every time I step out in public and someone calls my name, I think they’re going to yell at me.”

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She and Shulman have kept their relationship private since tying the knot, but the Emmy winner gushed to Elle magazine about the jewelry 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 think the accepted narrative now is that we, as women, don’t need anybody. But I need my husband. His unique and specific love has changed me.”

She previously called the first year 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 take a look at the Oscar winner’s best quotes about parenting with Shulman, from sobriety to guilt.

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The Impact of Motherhood

During an interview with WSJ. Magazine published in March 2022, Hathaway noted that she felt “fully landed and fully here” after becoming a parent. 

“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 at 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 also addressed the complications that come with pregnancy while discussing potential plans to continue expanding her family. “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 told 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 old, is climbing on everything, so he’s going to be a monkey. And I’m going to be holding him all night, so I will be a tree.”

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Mixed Feelings

“I don’t know, the world is really scary,” Hathaway said during an October 2020 Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance when asked about baby 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 during an October 2020 Live With Kelly and Ryan appearance.

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Proud Mom

“This is him,” the Modern Love star gushed to another Critics’ Choice Awards attendee in January 2020, a source told Us exclusively. Hathaway showed off a photo 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 announced her second pregnancy 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 told Us in May 2019 of joining the Sesame Street movie. “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 never posted a photo of my son, and I decided to post a shot of the back of his head, and almost as soon as I’d done it, I wished that I hadn’t,” the Les Miserablés star revealed in an April 2017 Jezebel interview. “I felt like I had broken some kind of a seal in inviting people into my life. And even though I felt as though I had done it in as protective a way as I could, even though it was a moment I was incredibly proud of, I don’t know that I’ll ever do it again.”

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Mute the Mom Guilt

“When Johnny was a week old and I was holding him and I was in the ninth level of ecstasy, I just all of a sudden thought, ‘Mommy guilt is invented nonsense,’” the actress said in an April 2017 Elle cover 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 new mom 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 learned parenting advice 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 said. “I thought that was really cool. I started doing that with Jonathan.”