On Sunday, August 9, Anne Hathaway arrived at the Los Angeles world premiere of The End of Oak Street in a custom Prabal Gurung halter top cropped above her pregnant belly, baggy low-rise jeans, and pink Aquazzura heels tipped in red. It was a red-carpet combination built around contrasts: couture and denim, a sweeping train and slouchy jeans, formal dressing with her bump fully visible.
At 43, Hathaway is expecting her third child with husband Adam Shulman while moving through the kind of year that can define a career. Multiple films are arriving in rapid succession, her global summer press tour has unfolded visibly pregnant, and her red-carpet appearances have drawn attention alongside the projects she is promoting.
Co-stars Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery also attended the premiere. Still, Hathaway’s styling supplied its most striking image: a couture crop top, low-rise denim, and a bare baby bump.
The look arrived with context: a pregnancy announced less than two months earlier, an unusually packed film year, and a broader cultural conversation about what pregnancy looks like in public.
The Look That Stopped the Room
Anne’s halter top was built to frame her bump, and pairing it with low-rise denim made the overall look distinctly uncommon for a major film premiere.
The custom Atelier Prabal Gurung top was cut as a halter in front, cropped through the midriff, and extended into a floor-length train lined in crimson. The fabric was described as light blue silk Mikado, with another description calling it ice blue silk; the baggy, low-rise La Ligne jeans placed the look within the “controversial Y2K low-rise jeans trend.”
Hathaway finished the outfit with drop earrings, a stack of bracelets on her left wrist, red-tipped pink Aquazzura heels, and bold red lipstick that echoed the crimson lining. Her hair was swept into a high ponytail, and stylist Erin Walsh confirmed the Prabal Gurung brand on Instagram.
At the premiere, Hathaway told Entertainment Tonight: “We’re having fun, it doesn’t last forever so we’re just enjoying every moment.”
A Pregnancy Announced With a Song and a Reveal
Hathaway’s June announcement video drew over 800,000 Instagram likes in just over 30 minutes, and arrived alongside a personal history she had already made public.
In the video, Hathaway walked into a room with her arms crossed over her stomach, then dropped them to reveal her bump, wearing a cropped top and maxi skirt; the caption read, “x Baby, I’m yours x,” set to Barbara Lewis’s 1965 song of the same name.
Hathaway and Shulman, who married in 2012, are already parents to sons Jonathan, 10, and Jack, 6. She had previously mentioned: “There’s always hope until there’s not, but when you get to a certain age, that hope looks like 1% to 2%. So we just decided to see where life took us, with a very, very healthy, realistic expectation, which was very low.”
On Late Night With Seth Meyers, she called the baby her “buzzer beater” and said they were “so shocked it worked.”
Finding Another Gear at 40
In an exclusive interview with People at the premiere, Hathaway described a mindset shift that, she said, arrived when she turned 40.
“You know, I was in my 30s with my other two, and I’m so different now …. something happened when I turned 40,” she said. “I just realized that this isn’t a dress rehearsal. It’s all real. I’m not, like, saving it up for my future self. It’s all happening right now. And so I think I’m just better at being present in the moment, living in gratitude, not taking anything for granted.”
The subject came up again in a separate Harper’s Bazaar interview. “I think that very often, conversations about aging presume that the first part of life is the happiest and the most fulfilling, and I don’t necessarily think that’s true. I wasn’t expecting to find another gear at 40,” she noted.
Five Films in One Year
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The End of Oak Street was Hathaway’s fourth film to reach theaters in 2026, part of a five-film slate.
The lineup stretches across markedly different roles: Mother Mary, in which she plays an unraveling pop star; The Devil Wears Prada 2, returning her to “everyone’s favorite magazine journalist”; Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, with Hathaway as Penelope, wife of Odysseus; and The End of Oak Street, a science-fiction mystery about “a couple whose family comes face-to-face with dinosaurs in their neighborhood.”
Then there is Verity, still described as “on the horizon,” while The End of Oak Street opens in U.S. theaters on August 14, 2026.
That packed release calendar has also made the summer a running maternity-style showcase. Hathaway kept her bump hidden while promoting The Devil Wears Prada 2 in May, then showed it off when The Odyssey arrived two months later.
For the New York premiere of The Odyssey, she wore a custom Prada gown with a crystal-embellished halterneck top and a flowing white pleated skirt.
Pregnancy, Visibility, and a Bigger Conversation
Hathaway’s premiere look joins a documented cultural shift away from treating pregnancy as something to conceal, one that extends well beyond celebrity fashion.
A recent New York Times report described growing acceptance of expectant people showing their bumps in everyday public settings.
Fashion scholar Laura McAndrews told the Times: “[Young people are] embracing all stages of their body, especially women. We’re not like back in the 1990s, and even earlier, where women just completely covered their bodies with these big tents.”
Red-carpet examples in recent years have included Rihanna, Sienna Miller, Adriana Lima, Jessie J, and Ellie Goulding. What distinguished Sunday’s approach was the formula itself: formal couture paired with low-rise denim, with Hathaway’s pregnancy placed at the visual center of the outfit.
In 2024, Hathaway publicly disclosed that her first pregnancy had ended in miscarriage in 2015, during the Off-Broadway run of Grounded, when she played a character who gave birth onstage every night. The premiere coverage draws no line between that history and Sunday’s look, but together they form a consistent picture of how she has chosen, on each occasion, to be visible on her own terms.
How do you think expectations around pregnancy and public visibility have shifted over the past decade, and what do you feel still has the furthest to go?
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