Anne Hathaway, a recent Tatler cover star, is expecting her second child. She broke the news yesterday via Instagram to her 14.6 million followers. The monochrome selfie shows a smiling Hathaway in her apartment mirror, dressed in a white maternity vest through which a burgeoning bump is visible. The 36-year-old actress already has one child with husband Adam Shulman but she spoke in the post about her difficulties conceiving, before sending ‘extra love’ to those facing fertility issues.

Despite being among Hollywood’s best known stars for half her life – she memorably shot to fame when cast in The Princess Diaries at 18 – Hathaway has led a largely private personal life of late. She married actor turned jewellery designer Shulman in September 2012 in California after meeting him through their mutual friend, actress Emily Blunt. Yet, the couple have largely kept both their relationship and their first son – three-year-old Jonathon Rosebanks – out of the public eye.

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In her June 2019 Tatler cover interview, however, Hathaway revealed that she would ‘love more children’ and gestured to her fertility struggles. She stated: ‘If it was up to me, I’d have plenty more by now[…] We’ve just got to be patient.’ She disclosed that she is seeking to espouse ecological values to her young son, whom she is teaching ‘how to exist in a world without filling up landfill.’

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Hathaway also gave up alcohol last year, explaining that, while she ‘just love[s] it’ – she feels that it makes her ‘unavailable’ as a parent. Motherhood has led Hathaway to reassess her priorities and she is no longer willing to compromise her wellbeing for a role. The gruelling preparation to play Fantine in Les Miserables – a part for which she dropped almost two stone – was, she reflects, ‘so harmful’. Her family life, it seems, is far more wholesome. She spoke fondly of her home life, explaining that she and her husband take it in turns to cook – ‘I roast a nice chicken. Nothing fancy’ – and that they prefer staying in ‘playing Uno’ to going out in the evenings.