{"id":694610,"date":"2026-05-26T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694610\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:54:12","slug":"anne-hathaway-was-legally-blind-for-a-decade-due-to-early-onset-cataract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694610\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Hathaway was ‘legally blind’ for a decade due to early-onset cataract"},"content":{"rendered":"

A\ufeffnne Hathaway’s<\/a> secret health condition made her legally blind for the past 10 years, the actress has revealed.<\/p>\n

Hathaway, 43, revealed she battled with early-onset cataract, which caused her to be legally blind in \ufeffone eye from age 30 to 40 years old.<\/p>\n

The Devil Wears Prada 2 star explained how it impacted her while speaking to a New York Times Podcast<\/a> in April.<\/p>\n

\"AnneA\ufeffnne Hathaway battled with early on-set cataract, she revealed in a recent podcast episode. (YouTube)<\/p>\n

“I was half blind for 10 years,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I had early-onset cataract. It impacted my vision so much that I was legally blind out of my left eye.”<\/p>\n

Hathaway added she had surgery to fix the issue after a decade with the condition. \ufeff<\/p>\n

“I didn’t realise how bad it had gotten until I could finally see the spectrum.”<\/p>\n

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It caused the actress to be legally blind out of one eye for a decade. (Getty)<\/p>\n

Cataract is the “clouding of the lens of your eye”, according to Health Direct.<\/a><\/p>\n

“Cataracts develop when proteins in the lens are damaged and clump together,” the website reads.<\/p>\n

“This reduces the amount of light that can pass through the lens to your retina.”<\/p>\n

It is the leading cause of blindness worldwide.<\/p>\n

Fans of the Hollywood star were shocked to hear about her health condition, taking to social media to \ufeffcommend her on a decade of filming while battling with blindness.<\/p>\n

“The fact she powered through 10 years of major movies with that and never once complained or used it for press \u2026 actual legend behaviour,” one fan wrote.<\/p>\n

“\ufeffThe amount of movies she did during those 10 years and she never mentioned it,” another said.<\/p>\n

In the decade she was battling with the illness, she starred in dozens of films, including \ufeffLes Mis\u00e9rables, Interstellar, The Intern, Ocean’s 8, The Hustle and The Witches, to name a few.<\/p>\n

\"AnneHathaway added she had surgery to fix the issue after ten years of living with the condition. \ufeff (Getty)\"AnneShe recently starred in The Devil Wears Prada 2, although it seems her vision was back to normal \ufeffby then. (The Hollywood Reporter via Getty)<\/p>\n

She also recently starred in The Devil Wears Prada 2,<\/a> although it seems her vision was back to normal \ufeffby then.<\/p>\n

The original cast, including Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Stanley Tucci and Emily Blunt, reunited for the film, alongside \ufeffother actors like Simone Ashley and Australian Patrick Brammall.<\/p>\n

Hathway revived \ufeffher role as Andy Sachs, the assistant-turned-features-editor who reunites with her old boss, Miranda Priestly, played by Streep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\ufeffnne Hathaway’s secret health condition made her legally blind for the past 10 years, the actress has revealed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-694610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}