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Anne Hathaway is expecting her third child with husband Adam Shulman.
The Devil Wears Prada star, 43, who shares two young sons, Jonathan and Jack, with the actor, announced her pregnancy Friday on Instagram.
In a clip, overlayed by Barbara Lewis’s “Baby I’m Yours,” Hathaway walks into frame in a matching white skirt and blouse set with her arms resting on her belly. She then removes them to reveal her baby bump, hugs it, smiles, and runs off camera.
The post’s comment section has been flooded with congratulatory messages from surprised fans. “The way my jaw hit the floorrrrrr!” one said. “Never in my life did I think I’d be pregnant at the same time as the princess of Genovia!!!!! Congratulations queennnnnn!!!”
“I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!! I’M SO HAPPY,” a second exclaimed.
Anne Hathaway is pregnant with her third child (annehathaway/Instagram)
Hathaway has been married to Shulman since 2012. They welcomed their first son in 2016 and their second in 2019.
The Oscar-winning Les Misérables actor has kept her sons out of the spotlight, previously explaining to PORTER magazine in 2023 that “it’s something I feel is not just essential for my health.”
“I’m on a team, it’s my family, and it’s not just about me,” she said.
Before giving birth to her first child, Hathaway struggled with infertility.
“It’s not for a movie… 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,” she wrote on Instagram when she revealed her second pregnancy.
She later addressed her candor about her challenging journey to motherhood in a 2024 interview with Vanity Fair.
“Given the pain I felt while trying to get pregnant, it would’ve felt disingenuous to post something all the way happy when I know the story is much more nuanced than that for everyone,” Hathaway said.
In 2015, when she was starring in a six-week run of the off-Broadway one-woman show Grounded, she suffered a miscarriage. The performance required her to act out a birth scene every night, and the pressure to pretend this didn’t affect her became too much.
“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 confessed. “It was too much to keep it in when I was onstage pretending everything was fine. I had to keep it real otherwise.
“So when it did go well for me, having been on the other side of it — where you have to have the grace to be happy for someone — I wanted to let my sisters know: ‘You don’t have to always be graceful. I see you and I’ve been you,’” Hathaway added. “It’s really hard to want something so much and to wonder if you’re doing something wrong.”