Anne Hathaway named People's Most Beautiful
Anne Hathaway has been named 2026's Most Beautiful by People magazine.
Anne Hathaway has been named World's Most Beautiful by People magazine.
The Devil Wears Prada 2 actress has received the publication's annual honour, but in an accompanying interview, the 43-year-old star admitted she spent "decades" feeling awkward about herself.
Asked if she ever had an awkward phase, she told the magazine: "For decades — decades. I think I had the longest unbroken awkward phase in Hollywood. Actually, I think mine extended until my late 30s.
"Pretty sure I knew because I was inside of it. I mean, you have your normal awkward phase when you’re a teenager. I just didn’t feel like I could get comfortable anywhere, you know? I couldn’t quite find my footing.
"When I was a kid, I found talking really difficult. So I had a bit of stress and anxiety around just, like, communicating."
And Anne also admitted she had had "multiple" beauty disasters over the years, largely because she didn't quite understand the "language".
Asked about her beauty disasters, she said: "Multiple. I didn’t understand that there’s a whole language when it comes to beauty. For about 10 years I was asking for my hair to be done a certain way, and it never went the way I wanted. And then finally I showed someone a picture.
"I had been asking for texture, and I meant that I wanted, like, loose soft waves, and it took me a very long time to figure that out. Now I always show up with reference images."
Anne has five movies - Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, The End of Oak Street and Verity - due for release this year and she praised her husband Adam Shulman for being so supportive.
She said: "He supports me completely. This year in particular was unusual. He and I both know that it’s probably never going to happen like this again. And the way he stepped up, I mean, in every possible way, he’s the most extraordinary person I’ve ever met.
"I’m so lucky that he’s my partner that I spend my life with. If I didn’t know that before this past year, I think I really know it now because with absolutely everything he’s just, he’s on it. He holds it down.
"I hope that doesn’t sound like I’m bragging, but he’s a dream partner to me."
The Princess Diaries star is grateful she and 45-year-old Adam - who are parents to sons Jonathan, 10, and six-year-old Jack - "work well together".
She gushed: "It’s one thing to have dreams. It’s another thing to have somebody who helps you achieve them. I absolutely would not be able to have achieved what I’ve done without my husband."
