Anne Hathaway Is Expecting Her Third Child, and 2026 Just Got Even More Remarkable
There are years in Hollywood that belong to a certain actor, and by almost any measure, this one has belonged to Anne Hathaway. The Oscar winner entered 2026 with an extraordinary four-film slate spread across the calendar, including the A24 supernatural drama ‘Mother Mary’, starring alongside Michaela Coel, Christopher Nolan’s epic ‘The Odyssey’ arriving in July, and the psychological thriller ‘Verity’ set for October. It is a lineup that would be ambitious for any performer at any stage, and Hathaway has moved through it with the composure that comes from nearly two decades at the top of the industry.
Alongside that professional momentum, she has long been candid about the role that anchors her most deeply. Married to Adam Shulman since 2012, the actress has spoken repeatedly about how motherhood fundamentally changed her, reflecting in a 2022 interview with WSJ Magazine that becoming a parent was the thing that finally made her feel fully present and grounded in her own life.
On Friday, she shared an announcement that sent the internet into a complete standstill. Hathaway posted a video to Instagram wearing a flowing white dress, walking into frame with her arms resting gently over her stomach before dropping them to reveal a visibly full baby bump. The clip was set to Barbara Lewis’s classic track “Baby I’m Yours,” with the caption “x Baby, I’m yours x,” confirming that she and Shulman are expecting their third child.
The comment section flooded almost immediately with congratulatory messages from stunned fans and fellow celebrities alike. One commenter declared that their jaw had hit the floor, while another shared that they never imagined being pregnant at the same time as the actress they had grown up knowing as the princess of Genovia. The pregnancy had been kept remarkably well-hidden, even as Hathaway had been photographed with her bump while vacationing in the period before the reveal.
The announcement carries a particular emotional weight for anyone who has followed her journey to parenthood. She and Shulman are already parents to two sons, Jonathan, 10, and Jack, 6, but the road to building their family included a miscarriage Hathaway experienced in 2015, during a six-week run of the one-woman off-Broadway production ‘Grounded’, a show that required her to perform a birth scene onstage every single night.
When announcing her second pregnancy in 2019, she publicly reached out to anyone navigating infertility, writing that her own journey had not been a straight line and sending extra love to those going through conception struggles. In her Vanity Fair April 2024 cover story, she explained that simply celebrating without acknowledging the pain she had experienced would have felt dishonest, noting that the story of pregnancy is always more nuanced than any single post can convey.
With ‘The Odyssey’ still to come this summer and ‘Verity’ arriving in the fall, Hathaway’s year still has significant chapters left to write. The personal news adds something genuinely moving to what was already shaping up to be a landmark chapter in her career, and it is hard to think of another actor right now juggling so much, on both sides of the camera, with such evident grace. If you have been following Anne Hathaway’s remarkable run this year, drop your reaction below and tell us which moment has hit hardest.
