Anne Hathaway has opened up about a private medical condition.

The 43-year-old actress revealed on The New York Times podcast that she spent a decade struggling with severe vision problems caused by an early-onset cataract.

"This is maybe too much information. I was half blind for 10 years," she said.

The Devil Wears Prada star explained that the condition became so serious that she was "basically legally blind" out of her left eye before finally getting treatment.

"It impacted my vision so much that I was basically legally blind out of my left eye and I wound up getting surgery. And I didn't realize how bad it had gotten until I could finally see the full spectrum," she recalled.

Hathaway says the condition affected more than just her eyesight

A cataract occurs when the normally clear lens of the eye becomes cloudy, often causing blurred or hazy vision.

Per Mayo Clinic, it can make everyday tasks like reading, driving at night, or recognizing faces far more difficult.

While cataracts are more commonly linked to older adults, Hathaway developed the condition much earlier in life, with the actress revealing it affected her from around age 30 to 40.

The Oscar winner also admitted she had no idea how heavily the condition had been impacting her overall well-being until after the surgery.

"I've calmed down since then. I didn't realize it was actually taxing my nervous system,” she explained.

Since regaining her vision, Hathaway said she now sees her eyesight completely differently and feels grateful every day for the surgery that restored it.

"I appreciate vision because I literally feel like every day, I wake up and I get to see the way that I do, it's a miracle," she said. "I actually am like, 'Oh, two generations back, that wouldn't have been an option for someone like me.' So, I actually do feel very connected to that kind of a miracle."

Hathaway hit back at plastic surgery rumors in an interview

The actress’ comments come shortly after she addressed online speculation surrounding plastic surgery rumours.

Speaking previously about the intense attention on her appearance, Hathaway said: "We’re at a time when people feel very confident in assuming what they think is fact, and sometimes what they think is accurate and sometimes it’s not.

"My preference would be to never comment on anything and to just live in the mystery and not draw attention to myself, but the speculation has gotten so loud that you do feel the need to just get your truth out there.

"And I'll probably always wonder, 'Should I have posted that or not?’ Should I have just kept going and done the thing that makes me happy and makes me feel more confident on the red carpet? But I felt like the conversation was becoming distracting," she added.

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Anne Hathaway has disclosed the reason why she hates being called by her first name.The Hollywood star has graced our screens since the early 2000s, blessing us with her well-known roles such as playing Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries and Andrea "Andy" Sachs in The Devil Wears Prada.The 43-year-old actress has cemented herself - and her name - as an icon in the world of cinema.But it turns out that Hathaway is not a fan of her first name and would actually prefer if people called her “anything but Anne”.Anne Hathaway revealed why she hates being called by her first name. Credit: Michael Buckner / GettyShe shared this revelation during an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon back in 2021.The Princess Diaries star explained to the host that she dislikes being called Anne, having adopted the moniker at the age of 14 when she had to get accreditation to work professionally as an actor. "When I was 14 years old I did a commercial and I had to get my SAG (Screen Actors Guild) card and they asked me 'what do you want your name to be?'" she said."And I'm like, well it should be my name - my name is Anne Hathaway... and that seemed like the right choice, but it never occurred to me that for the rest of my life people would call me Anne," she told the host.She then shared that "the only person who ever calls me Anne is my mother, and she only does it when she’s really mad at me.“And, so every time, like, I step out in public and someone calls my name, I think they’re going to yell at me,” she added.Anne Hathaway wants to be called "anything but Anne". Credit: Dave Benett / GettyThe Intern star understands that fans and coworkers don’t want to be “presumptuous” and think they can use whatever name they like for her.However, no one is "comfortable" calling her Anne on set as it "doesn't fit," because she's an Annie. "And so people call me, like, ‘Miss H.’ People call me ‘Hath.’ So feel free, call me anything but Anne,” she quipped, concluding the conversation about her name.Many fans took to social media to express their support for the Hollywood star's wish to be known as Annie."I LOVE that you go by Annie! I will never think of you as Ann again!" one person on X commented, while another shared: "Note to self: find her, call her Annie, have her love me so I can be one of her bffs because she’s an amazing person ."Featured image credit: Gilbert Flores / Getty

Sharon Stone has taken to social media to reveal her heartache after suffering nine miscarriages.

The 64-year-old Basic Instinct star shared about her loss underneath an Instagram post from People magazine were Dancing With The Stars performer Peta Murgatroyd revealed that she had suffered a miscarriage while her husband, Maks Chmerkovskiy, was in Ukraine.

"We, as females don't have a forum to discuss the profundity of this loss. I lost nine children by miscarriage," Stone wrote.

She continued "It is no small thing, physically nor emotionally yet we are made to feel it is something to bear alone and secretly with some kind of sense of failure."

"Instead of receiving the much-needed compassion and empathy and healing which we so need. Female health and wellness left to the care of the male ideology [have] become lax at best, ignorant in fact, and violently oppressive in [the] effort," she added.

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Per Daily Mail, this isn't the first time the Casino actress has spoken up about the heartbreaking subject. Last year, Stone reflected on her miscarriages and applauded the "global sisterhood" for speaking out about "issues of loss and heartache".

Stone explained that she underwent "36 hours of labor alone" after losing a baby at five and a half months pregnant, disclosing that nurses stayed by her side, adding that she felt a "strong sense" of understanding.

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During an interview on Radio 4 Women's Hour and BBC Sounds, Stone said she felt a "strong sense of sisterhood" from the nurses.

The star revealed: "When I lost my last baby, and then went back to the hospital and had 36 hours of labor on my own too, of course, birth nothing, and the nurses that had been in the hospital with me two days before when they removed the last baby came in and sat with me on their day off."

"I really felt such a strong sense of sisterhood and understanding. Because I would have been alone. And that's such an alone feeling anyway," she added.

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Stone experienced several miscarriages during her marriage to ex-husband Phil Bronstein - whom she was with from 1998 until their divorce in 2004.

She told the hosts in her Women's Hour interview that she has a "lupus-related rheumatoid factor" that made it hard for her to carry a pregnancy to term.

Stone is now the mother of three sons through adoption: Roan Joseph Bronstein, 22, Laird Vonne Stone, 17, and Quinn Kelly Stone, 16.

The mother-of-three told Vogue Magazine in March 2019 that she was approved to adopt her first son Roan, who was born in 2000, while on the way home from having a miscarriage. She said that she felt as if "God was throwing [her] a life raft".

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Broadway star Laura Benanti has revealed on social media that she suffered a miscarriage during a recent performance.

The 43-year-old Tony-winning actress and singer shared a photo taken on The Broadway Cruise voyage on April 5 - a cruise ship that took tourists from New York to Bermuda.

In the snapshot, she can be seen performing in front of a crowd of passengers on an open-air stage on the ship's deck. She heartbreakingly wrote in the caption that while performing for 2000 people, she experienced a pregnancy loss.

Benanti - who is one of ten musical theater stars who joined the March 31 to April 5 round-trip voyage - explained that she "knew it was happening" before her performance.

Read Benanti's heartbreaking post below:

"It started slowly the night before," she penned in her Instagram post. "If it had been our first loss, or even our second, I likely wouldn't have been able to go on.

"But unfortunately, I am not a stranger to the pain and emptiness of losing a pregnancy. It is a path I have walked before, hand in hand with my husband," she continued.

The Gossip Girl reboot actress expressed gratitude to the audience for "lifting me out of my grief" and to her band and tour crew for working "so hard" to make her as comfortable as possible.

She then went on to praise those around her, especially her mother- and father-in-law, who "shielded" her daughter Ella from the "reality" of the experience and "[gave] her the time of her life while 'Mama’s back hurt.'"

"Thank you to that little soul for choosing me as your home, even for a short time," the Life & Beth actress emotionally added.

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The No Hard Feelings star is married to Patrick Brown, with whom she shares two daughters, Ella, six, and Louisa, nine months. The couple welcomed their youngest daughter in July via a surrogate.

"Patrick and I are so grateful for the family that we have, and the miracle of our two little girls. One carried by me and one carried by an angel-on-earth," she said of her family.

She disclosed that she and her husband "are heartbroken" but reminded families who have also experienced a pregnancy loss that they are "not alone".

"I share all of this not to garner sympathy or attention but to remind the many people and families who have and will suffer in this way that there is no shame in this kind of loss. That you are not alone. And to remind me as well," she concluded.

Benanti received support from fellow celebrities and followers in the comments section of her heartbreaking post. Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth wrote: "Laura. I’m so sorry. Everyone who knows you loves you. You’re an angel on this earth. You are the toughest person I know. Sending God's love to your fam."

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Fellow theater actress Lindsay Heather Pearce shared: "You and yours are extraordinary. Love to you, warmth to you, and comfort in these days to come."

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A third user commented: "Thank you SO much for sharing this story, Laura. Every time a woman does, I feel a little less alone in the world. I love you so so so much."

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The She Loves Me star spoke about a previous miscarriage during an interview with People magazine in 2020. At the time, she said: "It started to make me feel angry that there's some deep-seated misogyny in our culture where women are not allowed to mourn the loss of their pregnancy.

"I felt like the only thing that would make me feel a tiny bit less crazy about losing my pregnancy was feeling like perhaps I could help other women not feel alone because I felt so alone," she added.

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Anne Hathaway has been a big name in the film business for a long time now. At just 35, she already has 46 roles to her name, from television to voice acting, rom-coms, musicals and dramas. Despite being a hit in the likes of The Princess Diaries, The Devil Wears Prada, Interstellar, and - just this year - Ocean's Eight, some people are only just noticing how amazing she looks.

Of course, Twitter reacted absolutely stunned how great she was looking in 2018.

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Even Rihanna, who has perfected the art of looking great at all times, complimented the star on her looks recently. Hathaway was recently speaking to Ellen DeGeneres about what it was like returning to the movie set after the birth of her baby boy in 2016, and how she felt quite self-conscious that "the weight was really slow to come off".

However, she got plenty of support from her coworkers on the set of Ocean's Eight, including Cate Blanchett:

“I walked on the set, and, you know, my weight’s a little up and I’m just aware of it. And I walk on the set and I’m in my jeans, and I’ve done my best and I’m going to love myself no matter what, and Sandy Bullock looks up and goes, ‘Looking good, mama!’ Cate Blanchett’s like, ‘Nice jeans, Hathaway!’”

The best compliment, of course, came from Rihanna. “Rihanna looks up and goes, ‘Damn, girl, you got an a**!’” The actress recounted. “And I, of course, freaked out and loved it so much. I was like, ‘Really?!’ And she goes, ‘You got an ass like me!’”

Knowing the amount of confidence that kind of compliment can give a person, and how that, in turn, can affect their looks, people were quick to comment on the effect it seemed to have on Hathaway.

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However, many were quick to point out Hathaway was always looking this good, but some people have been "just sleeping on her".

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But, it now appears that all of us haven't been paying much attention to her husband, who just so happens to look like one of the most famous men in history. As it turns out, Adam Shulman, who she married in 2012, is a perfect match for the Bard of Avon himself, William Shakespeare.

But it's not just some similar facial features that have wowed all of Twitter - but the fact that Shakespeare's wife was called... Anne Hathaway.

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"anne hathaway is being talked about for her beauty but what about the fact that her husband looks very similar to william shakespeare," the Twitter user wrote, "and william shakespeare's wife's name was literally ANNE HATHAWAY". Sure enough, the rest of Twitter had something to say about it, bringing the post to over 100,000 retweets in the process.

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And then it started to get weird:

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To make things even weirder, it turns out that Hathaway was born the same month as the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's marriage to the other Anne!

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So, what do you think - strange coincidence or proof of some bizarre time travel/everlasting celebrity life?