Anne Hathaway offered rare insight into her personal life while discussing her marriage to Adam Shulman.
“He supports me completely. This year in particular was unusual,” Hathaway, 43, told People on Monday, April 20. “He and I both know that it’s probably never going to happen like this again.”
The actress praised Shulman, 45, for “the way he stepped up” during a busy work year for her, adding, “In every possible way, he’s the most extraordinary person I’ve ever met.”
Hathaway, who shares sons Jonathan, 10, and Jack, 6, with Shulman, expressed gratitude for her husband.
“I’m so lucky that he’s my partner that I spend my life with,” she gushed. “If I didn’t know that before this past year, I think I really know it now because with absolutely everything he’s just, he’s on it. He holds it down.”
She continued: “I hope that doesn’t sound like I’m bragging, but he’s a dream partner to me.”
Hathaway called Shulman “a wonderful cook,” saying, “That’s one of the ways that I really value him. [He recently made a] bangin’ salmon with rice, purple sweet potatoes and spinach and roasted tomatoes. It was so good.”
The Oscar winner thanked Shulman for supporting her amid her jam-packed schedule, which this year includes the release of films Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Christopher Nolan’s big-budget adaptation of The Odyssey.
“It’s one thing to have dreams,” Hathaway said, explaining how she and Shulman “work well” together. “It’s another thing to have somebody who helps you achieve them. I absolutely would not be able to have achieved what I’ve done without my husband.”
Hathaway and Shulman originally started dating after they met at the 2008 Palm Springs International Film Festival. The couple got married in 2012 before expanding their family.
“There’s this tendency to portray getting pregnant, having kids, in one light, as if it’s all positive. But I know from my own experience it’s so much more complicated than that,” Hathaway explained during an interview with WSJ. Magazine in March 2022 about the complications she faced on the road to motherhood. “And when you find out that your pain is shared by others you just think, ‘I just feel that’s helpful information to have, so I’m not isolated in my pain.’ I mean, what is there to be ashamed of? This is grief, and that’s a part of life.”
At the time, Hathaway noted that she wouldn’t rule out expanding her family further in the future. She also recalled not feeling “fully landed and fully here” until the arrival of her kids.
“It’s not like I was lacking integrity, but it made me want to be completely, on every level, true to my word,” she said. “And that meant stopping any nonsense that I had going on inside myself. And it’s little breaks that you give yourself sometimes when you know that you’re not being your best self.”
Hathaway later revealed she experienced a pregnancy loss. In a 2024 Vanity Fair profile, Hathaway said she had a miscarriage in 2015 while starring in Grounded, a one-woman, Off-Broadway play. Hathaway played an F16 fighter pilot whose career stalls after an unexpected pregnancy.
“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 said, explaining why she kept the pregnancy loss a secret from the public. “It was too much to keep it in when I was onstage pretending everything was fine.”
Hathaway later told her loved ones about the situation.
“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’m with you,’” she continued. “It’s really hard to want something so much and to wonder if you’re doing something wrong.”
