During an appearance on The New York Times’ podcast “Popcast,”<\/a> the “Devil Wears Prada 2” actress, 43, revealed she was “legally blind” in one eye all throughout her 30s due to an early-onset cataract.<\/p>\n “This is maybe too much information,” she began. “I was half blind for 10 years.”<\/p>\n “It impacted my vision so much that I was basically legally blind out of my left eye and I wound up getting surgery,” she continued. “And I didn’t realize how bad it had gotten until I could finally see the full spectrum.”<\/p>\n JUDI DENCH\u2019S VISION LOSS PREVENTS HER FROM GOING OUT ALONE<\/a><\/p>\n Anne Hathaway said she was legally blind for a decade before undergoing surgery at 40.\u00a0 (Theo Wargo\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n “I’ve calmed down since then,” Hathaway added. “I didn’t realize it was actually taxing my nervous system.”<\/p>\n According to the Mayo Clinic, a cataract is the clouding of the lens of the eye.<\/p>\n “For people who have cataracts<\/a>, seeing through cloudy lenses is often like looking through a frosty or fogged-up window. Clouded vision caused by cataracts can make it hard to read, drive a car at night or see the expression on a friend’s face.”<\/p>\n JUDI DENCH SAYS SHE ‘CAN’T RECOGNIZE ANYBODY ANYMORE’ AS HER MACULAR DEGENERATION PROGRESSES<\/a><\/p>\n Hathaway said her current vision is a “miracle.”<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER<\/a><\/p>\n The actress said she suffered from an early on-set cataract.\u00a0 (Gotham\/GC Images)<\/p>\n “I appreciate vision because I literally feel like every day, I wake up and I get to see the way that I do, it’s a miracle,” the actress continued. “I actually am like, ‘Oh, two generations back, that wouldn’t have been an option for someone like me.’ So, I actually do feel very connected to that kind of a miracle.”<\/p>\n Most recently, Hathaway fired back at plastic surgery<\/a> rumors circulating online despite having a “preference” to “never comment on anything” and “not draw attention” to herself.<\/p>\n LIKE WHAT YOU\u2019RE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS<\/a><\/p>\n “We\u2019re at a time when people feel very confident in assuming what they think is fact, and sometimes what they think is accurate and sometimes it\u2019s not,” Hathaway said.<\/p>\n Hathaway recently shut down plastic surgery rumors.\u00a0 (Joe Maher\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n “The speculation has gotten so loud that you do feel the need to just get your truth out there,” she continued. “And I\u2019ll probably always wonder, \u2018Should I have posted that or not? Should I have just kept going and done the thing that makes me happy and makes me feel more confident on the red carpet<\/a>?\u2019 But I felt like the conversation was becoming distracting.”<\/p>\n CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n “Also, by the way, these are huge medical decisions that people<\/a> are presuming,” she added. “I wanted to show that like, no, I didn\u2019t make a huge medical decision. It\u2019s just two braids.”<\/p>\n![\"Anne](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/anne-hathaway-ralph-lauren-fox-news-001.jpeg\")
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