Anne Hathaway's Pregnant Press Tour Says More About Us Than Her

News ArticlePublishedAug 19, 2026 at 05:00 AM EDTAnne Hathaway is having a year. She has five films coming out, two of them (The Devil Wears Prada 2 and The Odyssey) among the biggest releases on the calendar, and she is promoting all of them while visibly pregnant. Watch the press run and you see something we rarely get from a movie star: a working mother in her 40s, hopping from one international city to the next, doing a job that someone as rich and famous as Hathaway does not have to do. So why do it? And what does that model for everyone watching? ...The simplest answer is also the least glamorous. She is doing what millions of women do every day. She wants to work, so she does. Hathaway is far from alone in that. Among women who had their first child in 2021 or 2022, 78 percent worke