Anne Hathaway went very quickly from a nasty breakup to meeting the man that she would marry. This despite the fact that she had originally planned on taking some time for herself. But when she met Adam Shulman, she knew right away that this was the man of her dreams. They've been together ever since. And through the rocky and confusing start, challenges getting pregnant, and their work in jewelry making, producing, and acting, they've forged a relationship that most couples in Hollywood would envy. If you've ever wanted to learn what it must be like to be a part of one of the most successful celebrity couples of all time, stay tuned to get a look inside Anne Hathaway's marriage.
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00:00Almost a decade in, Anne Hathaway and her husband are still madly in love.
00:05Want to take a look into the details of their marriage,
00:08including the crazy conspiracy theory about them? Keep watching.
00:12When a friend introduced Anne Hathaway and Adam Schulman in the fall of 2008,
00:17the timing was pretty terrible. But it all worked out in the end. The actor had just split from her
00:23Raffaello Fugliari in June 2008. The fallout from that very messy relationship had her,
00:29as she told Marie Claire UK, actually looking forward to a little alone time.
00:34Hathaway dated Fugliari for four years before the Daily Mail reported they called it quits.
00:40The Italian businessman, as it turned out, wasn't as much a savvy entrepreneur as he was a,
00:45quote, sophisticated scam artist. At least, that's how assistant U.S. attorney Reed Brodsky
00:51put it during Fugliari's eventual trial in October 2008. According to Vanity Fair,
00:56Fugliari lied about being in close contact with Pope John Paul II to secure millions of dollars
01:02from investors. Even more, he also pleaded guilty to 14 counts of conspiracy, wire fraud,
01:08and money laundering. Fugliari was sentenced to four and a half years in jail, which he served
01:14until 2012. This was, understandably, a difficult time for Hathaway. She told W magazine,
01:20"'As soon as I found out about the arrest, I had to get on a plane to Mexico to do a press
01:24tour for Get Smart, and then I spent a week in shock at a friend's house.'"
01:28Maybe not quite the most auspicious circumstances to meet your future husband under, and yet...
01:34Anne Hathaway essentially fell for Adam Schulman the minute they met. According to Harper's Bazaar,
01:40when speaking to a friend after their first encounter, she said confidently,
01:44"'I'm going to marry that man.'"
01:46How did that work out, you ask? Well, the two of them have been together ever since,
01:50and married for nine years as of September 2021. So either Hathaway is just a true romantic,
01:56or she has some serious psychic tendencies. Maybe a bit of both.
02:00"'Thank you. Thank you.'"
02:04At first, though, it didn't seem like things were going to be so smooth-sailing.
02:08As she explained to David Letterman in 2012, Hathaway was told that Schulman was already taken,
02:14even though he wasn't. Although the actor clearly already knew that the producer and
02:18jewelry designer was the one for her, it would be weeks before she found out the truth about
02:23Schulman's relationship status. She had to be a little patient before acting on what started as
02:28a crush, and turned into long-lasting love. Six weeks after she and Adam Schulman first met,
02:35Anne Hathaway put her own famous-person spin on the classic dinner-in-a-movie first date.
02:40On The Late Show with David Letterman, she explained that she decided to invite her new
02:44flame to follow her across state lines to a New Orleans screening of her movie,
02:49Rachel Getting Married. She had a spare ticket for the feature film,
02:52in which she portrays the main character, Kim Buckman. Hathaway recalled,
02:57"'My two best girlfriends from L.A. couldn't go, and I just thought,
03:00you know, of all the people I know in L.A., I think I'd have the best time with that guy Adam.'"
03:05Schulman was clearly unfazed by this unusual proposition,
03:09since the pair ended up attending the screening together in New Orleans that November.
03:13Speaking to Life & Style, Schulman said,
03:15"'We met through mutual friends. I came to support Anne. We've never been to New
03:19Orleans before. It's our first time.' The first date obviously went pretty well,
03:24and as Hathaway shared on a 2020 episode of The Drew Barrymore Show,
03:28their second date happened at the daytime chat show host's Halloween party.
03:33When asked by Harper's Bazaar UK whether she had trust issues entering into a relationship
03:38with Adam Schulman, Anne Hathaway admitted that she felt pretty scared. After what happened with
03:43Raffaello Fuglieri, it's not exactly shocking that Hathaway found it hard to fall for someone else,
03:49even if she had such a strong inkling she would eventually marry Schulman.
03:53When she broke off things with Fuglieri, not only did she have to mourn a four-year relationship,
03:58but she also had to hand over her personal diaries to the FBI.
04:02She then had to temporarily stay at a friend's while looking for a place of her own.
04:06Hathaway told W Magazine in October 2008,
04:09"'It's a situation where the rug was pulled out from under me all of a sudden.'"
04:13In her interview with Harper's Bazaar UK,
04:16Hathaway recalled what she said to Schulman in the early days of their courtship.
04:20"'I believe, because I need to believe, that what just happened to me was the
04:24exception and not the rule, and that people are good and you are a good person,
04:28because I feel it, and so I am not in a good place right now, but I'm going with this.'"
04:32"'Every good thing has been a trick, until you.'"
04:39Hathaway's gamble paid off, as Schulman got down on one knee just three years after they met,
04:44in November 2011.
04:47Anne Hathaway and Adam Schulman rarely share details about their life together,
04:51and their September 2012 wedding was equally understated. Speaking to People,
04:56an unnamed guest said,
04:57"'It was just friends and family, no movie stars. There were only a few people in the
05:01business there, like her stunt double. The couple said I do at sunset in Big Sur,
05:06California, and celebrated their love over a whole weekend in the coastal town.'"
05:11Though we still have few details about the private ceremony,
05:14Hathaway's wedding dress was much discussed, even before she actually got married. It came
05:19courtesy of legendary designer Valentino Garavani, better known as simply Valentino.
05:25The couturier told E! News in the days leading up to the big event,
05:29"'She's a very good friend of mine. She's like my daughter.'"
05:32As for the dress itself, a rep for Valentino told The Telegraph,
05:35"'Mr. Valentino Garavani designed it especially for Anne,
05:39and our seamstresses at the Couture Atelier in Rome made it. It was a gown more than worthy
05:45of the Princess of Genovia, as big and poofy as you'd hope, with a long train featuring pink
05:50accents and satin flowers." Shulman wore a timeless black tux, according to Hello.
05:56A jack of many trades, Adam Shulman isn't just a jewelry designer. Anne Hathaway's other half
06:02also happens to be a producer and actor. In 2014, he and his movie star wife collaborated
06:08on her first producing credit, the movie Song 1, directed by Kate Barker Froyland.
06:13Hathaway told Variety at the movie's New York premiere,
06:16"'I really loved producing. I loved being able to support a filmmaker in a way beyond acting
06:21in a movie.'" Harper's Bazaar also noted that Hathaway and Shulman worked together
06:26on feature films The Shower and Puzzler. However, despite both movies having been
06:31first announced years ago, in 2015 and 2011 respectively, per The Hollywood Reporter,
06:36they are still marked as in development on IMDb. That makes it anyone's guess whether
06:41they will ever see the light of day. As for Shulman, he currently has five acting credits
06:46to his name, including a minor role in the 2015 movie Ricky and the Flash, starring Meryl Streep.
06:53One of the major trials Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman have faced together
06:57was their difficulty having children. In a 2019 interview with the Daily Mail,
07:02Anne Hathaway spoke candidly about her struggle with infertility,
07:05explaining that she wanted to open up about it so that others knew they weren't alone.
07:10This came after she told her Instagram followers that her road to pregnancy was,
07:14quote, not a straight line. Speaking to the Mail, the actor revealed,
07:18"'Each time I was trying to get pregnant and it wasn't going my way,
07:21someone else would manage to conceive. I knew intellectually that it didn't happen just to
07:26torment me. But, to be honest, it felt a little bit like it did.'"
07:30As hard as this all was for the couple, they are now proud parents to two boys.
07:34It's obvious to anyone who listens that Hathaway is completely enamored with her kids.
07:39Appearing on Live with Kelly and Ryan in October 2020,
07:43the movie star described her son's sweet relationship. When Ryan Seacrest asked her
07:48how her eldest was coping with the new baby, she responded happily,
07:52"'Oh, no coping. No coping, just love.'"
07:55Hathaway added that her son Jack was finally big enough to wrestle with his older brother,
08:00and that's brought a whole new element to their relationship, which has been, quote,
08:04"'really cute.'"
08:05Anne Hathaway has been through a lot, including years of people publicly hating her,
08:09and her husband has played a big role in supporting her through the tough times.
08:14Hathaway told Elle in 2017,
08:16"'He changed my ability to be in the world comfortably. I think the accepted narrative
08:20now is that we as women don't need anybody, but I need my husband. His unique and specific
08:26love has changed me.'" Unlike many tempestuous celebrity relationships, Hathaway's and Shulman's
08:32seems to have true lasting power, since the actor has barely changed her tune since first
08:37meeting her now-husband. Hathaway told Marie Claire UK in 2011,
08:42"'I am very much in love with him. Only Adam totally ruined my plan. I was really actually
08:47looking forward to a little alone time and then I fell in love like a fool.'"
08:51Ten years, a wedding, and two children later,
08:53Shulman is still, quote, "'the one' for Hathaway," as she told The Sun in 2021.
08:59Though Adam Shulman's various ventures mean he's not exactly hurting for dough,
09:04Anne Hathaway is apparently worth 60 times more than her husband.
09:08She's cashing in at $60 million to Shulman's $1 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth.
09:14The website reports that Hathaway was paid $1 million, which is her husband's entire net worth,
09:19for her role as Andy Sachs in the Devil Wears Prada. She also earned a whopping $10 million
09:25for Les Miserables. Hathaway's side hustle as a brand ambassador for the likes of Lancome
09:30and Todd's hasn't hurt her bank account, either.
09:33As for Shulman, his money seems to come from his acting and producing career,
09:38and his jewelry making, as well as from the sale of property he co-owned with Hathaway,
09:42according to Celebrity Net Worth. These days, Shulman's jewelry line, James Banks Design,
09:48seems to be thriving. According to its website, the company hand-makes every piece in Marin
09:53County, California, using recycled materials to create unique pieces.
09:58Like many of us when the coronavirus first hit,
10:00Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman felt out of their depth. Hathaway told The Sun,
10:05"...in the early days of lockdown we were all so overwhelmed and there was a lot to process,
10:10and I needed a release but I didn't want to scare my kids, so I screamed into a pillow a lot."
10:14But through it all, her doting husband was ever the perfect partner. Hathaway added,
10:19"...Adam is great. If you're going to be quarantined with another adult,
10:22my husband is the one. That's love right there."
10:25Eventually, though, Hathaway channeled the frustration into the movie
10:29Locked Down, which came out in January 2021, and uses the pandemic as a plot device.
10:35The movie, a very timely heist, co-starring Hathaway and Chiwetel Ejiofor, unfortunately
10:41didn't do so well, scoring 43 percent on the critics' side on Rotten Tomatoes and coming in
10:47at a dire 29 percent with the audience. Nonetheless, we're sure Hathaway has many
10:52more box office-topping movies under her belt. We can't wait to see what she has in store.
10:58Last but not least — well, maybe least — there's quite a bizarre conspiracy
11:02surrounding the happy couple. Yes, conspiracy. Search the internet for
11:06Anne Hathaway marriage and you'll be met with a host of results pertaining to a very
11:11different Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare, whom he married in 1582.
11:16You don't need us to tell you that this is not the modern-day actor who has starred in
11:20the likes of The Dark Knight Rises and The Witches. Well, there was a time several years
11:25ago when certain people on the internet didn't think the distinction was quite so clear-cut.
11:30Beyond the two Anne Hathaways' shared name, it seems that one's husband, Adam Schulman,
11:35bears a striking resemblance to the others, which happens to be a certain 16th-century bard,
11:40as one Twitter user helpfully pointed out in 2018. The tweet, which quickly went viral,
11:46ignited a whole conspiracy movement that Schulman was in fact Shakespeare reincarnated
11:51to reunite with Hathaway, as reported by BuzzFeed News.
11:55We are sprouting seeds of possibility right now.
11:58Other wild theories included time travel and Hathaway and Schulman as vampires. Okay, then.