Anne Hathaway
Actress used to be chronically stressed
Anne Hathaway can now laugh in a relaxed manner – like here at the Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica in February.
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Actress Anne Hathaway used to be really stressed out. She now revealed this in a podcast.
“I didn’t know how to breathe yet”
As the 41-year-old has gotten older, she has become more and more relaxed. While she on the podcast “The Interview” When the “New York Times” reflected on the roles she played at the beginning of her career, the “The Devil Wears Prada” actress said that she often played “chronically stressed young women” because that’s how she was herself. “I was a really stressed out young woman.” However, this condition leads you “to all sorts of things” and she realized that she didn’t want to die stressed. Life is too short for that: “Something could fall from the sky and turn off your light.”
She thought her life had to be like that – and didn’t pay enough attention to herself. “I didn’t know how to breathe yet,” said the mother of two. “And that was really complicated. It was really, really complicated not knowing how to breathe.” That’s why “literally everything” in her life as a young woman in Hollywood stressed her out at some point.
Alcohol wasn’t a solution either
Hathaway went on to say that she even felt “somatic” stress at the time, i.e. effects on her body. That’s probably why she started consuming alcohol regularly to cope with her constant stress. “For me it was like a smoldering fuel,” she explained in one just a few weeks ago Interview with Vanity Fair magazine on the subject of alcohol. Deep down she knew “that it wasn’t for me.” She has now given up drinking for five years and has vowed to abstain from alcohol for as long as her sons live with her.
Instead of fighting stress with alcohol, she now tries to apply a more positive outlook on life. Not only can you breathe away stressful situations with the right technique, but you can also practice gratitude more often. “A light lit up in her head” when she realized that she didn’t have to be hard on herself to achieve something in life.