T

O THE outside world she

seems to have it all: beauty,

brains, a happy marriage,

a gorgeous son and a suc-

cessful Hollywood career.

But actress Anne Hatha-

way (36) has real-person

problems too, the biggest of

which is something many women can

relate to: the struggle to conceive.

The Oscar winner, who recently went

public with the news of her second preg-

nancy, has opened up for the first time

about her own battle to have a baby.

“I think we [as a society] have a one-

size-fits-all approach to getting preg-

nant,” she said at an event to promote

her new Amazon Prime anthology series,

Modern Love. “You get pregnant and for

the majority of cases this is a really happy

time. But for a lot of people who are try-

ing to get pregnant, that’s not really the

story – or that’s one part of the story.

“And the steps that lead up to that part

ofthestoryarereallypainfuland isolating

MY BATTLE

FOR A BABY

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Anne, who has a three-year-old son,

Jonathan, with her husband, jewellery

designer Adam Shulman (38), broke her

silence on her fertility issues when she

announced the news of her second preg-

nancy on Instagram recently.

The picture shows Anne proudly dis-

playing her baby bump along with the

caption, “It’s not for a movie... #2.”

But then she gets serious. “All kidding

aside, for everyone going through infer-

tility and conception hell, please know it

was not a straight line to either of my

pregnancies. Sending you extra love.”

Being mindful of how her pregnancy

post might make others feel, she adds, “I

was just aware of the fact that when it

came time to post that I was pregnant,

somebody was going to feel even more

isolated because of it. And I just wanted

them to know they have a sister in me.”

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