Indeed, she has not let them define her.
As she toldVanity Fair, “Humiliation is such a rough thing to go through.”
She added, “The key is to not let it close you down.”
My two brothers loved that.
My parents never said, ‘Pipe down!’
or, ‘Quit that racket!'"
With so much support and love, you’d think Anne would have been a happy-go-lucky child.
On the contrary, she described her young self as “intense” when speaking with Vanity Fair.
“I disliked myself so intensely,” she continued.
“It was just a mindset.
I didn’t know how to love myself.
I didn’t know how to love anybody.”
She toldW, “I feel like I have to apologize for myself in front of most people.”
“I was told, ‘We have ten guys coming today, and you’re cast.
Aren’t you excited to make out with all of them?’
And I thought, ‘Is there something wrong with me?’
because I wasn’t excited,” she said.
“It was considered normal to ask an actor to make out with other actors to test for chemistry.
Which is actually the worst way to do it,” she said.
She asked them to choose a song they thought the main characters would enjoy dancing to.
Although she already had a hit movie under her belt, Anne Hathaway’s college years were no exception.
For me, it waswallowingfuel.
And I don’t like to wallow."
But, as we all know, not all fairytales end with a “happily ever after.”
Even former President Donald Trump weighed in.
“She hasn’t remained very loyal to him, has she?”
Trump told “Access Hollywood’s” Billy Bush (viaToday).
“When all the dust settled, I was just like, ‘You gotta be kidding me.
Your first instinct is usually the right one.’
And all the reasons why I turned it down came true,” she toldPeople.
Regardless, the entire performance was raked over the coals by critics.
But what should have been the high point of her career almost ended it.
Talk about “blerg.”
But the moment might not have been as self-absorbed as some think.
“I should have gone after everyone else.
I own that; it was rude,” she said.
“People saw that as grabby, I guess.”
Regardless, it was the beginning of an awards circuit that went from bad to worse.
She recalled the incident in a 2014 interview withHarper’s Bazaar.
“Punched in the gut,” she remembered.
“Shocked and slapped and embarrassed.
Even now I can feel the shame.”
With the Academy Awards coming up, Hathaway’s anxiety and insecurities were resurfacing.
And then she flubbed it again.
The star was immediately criticized for theawkward Oscars moment, and the backlash both personally and professionally was cruel.
In aVanity Fairinterview, she recalled how the fallout nearly ended her career.
The situation caused Hathaway to take a brief hiatus.
As she toldHuffPost, “My impression is that people needed a break from me.”
For context this was a language I had employed with myself since I was 7.
It’s a thing."
To add insult to injury, she was playing a character who was pregnant.
“The first time it didn’t work out for me.
I was doing a play and I had to give birth onstage every night,” she toldVanity Fair.
“I think that we have a very one-size-fits-all approach to getting pregnant,” Hathaway toldThe Associated Press.
“And you get pregnant and for the majority of cases, this is a really happy time.
But a lot of people who are trying to get pregnant: That’s not really the story.
Or that’s one part of the story.
And I went through that.”
The controversy arose after avideowent viral depicting Hathaway waving to fans after a Valentino fashion show in Italy.
The clip shows a large, noisy crowd jostling for the star’s attention.
“I cannot take photos with everyone,” Hathaway said.
“But I will stand here and wave if you would like to take a photo.
I cannot sign, there are too many of you.”
