« Ocean’s 8 » star Anne Hathaway says she’s always being fat-shamed and opened up about why she decided to tell her social media followers that she was gaining weight for a movie role.
Anne Hathaway is explaining why she decided to preemptively tell her social media followers that she was gaining weight for an upcoming movie role.
“It sounds kinda sad to say, I just wanted to be able to enjoy my summer and let everybody know that I’m living in my body and I’m happy with my body,” she told Hoda Kotb on the “Today” show on Thursday. “And if my body is different than what you’re used to, or what you think it should be, that’s yours. And my experience is mine and I’m loving it.”
Kotb went on to ask the 35-year-old actress if she often gets fat-shamed.
“All the time,” Hathaway responded, adding that sometimes the comments are overt and sometimes not.
“One of my favorite things that’s happening in this moment is that a lot of us are looking at the language that we choose and we’re becoming more conscious about it,” she said, then explaining what happened to her when she was younger, “So, maybe someone thought that it wasn’t a big deal to say to a 16-year-old… ‘Congratulations, you got the part. You can’t gain any more weight.’”
The “Ocean’s 8” star continued, “Maybe they thought that they were giving me some good advice, but now, 20 years later, I’m able to say, ‘I actually think that could have done more consciously and more loving.’ It left me feeling confused. A lot of us are taking up this opportunity to become more conscious and more loving in the way that we communicate with each other. More compassionate, I guess.”
In April, Hathaway posted a video of herself doing an intense workout video and captioned it, “I am gaining weight for a movie role and it is going well. To all the people who are going to fat shame me in the upcoming months, it’s not me, it’s you. Peace.”
