Today Anne Hathaway may appear to have it all—a beautiful family, a booming career complete with an Oscar, and a bonafide sense of style.
As a formerly chronically stressed young woman, I just remember thinking one day, ‘You are taking this for granted.
You are taking your life for granted. You have no idea. Something could fall through the sky, and that would be lights out.
"So when I find the old instincts rising, I just tell myself, ‘You are not going to die stressed.
As for what caused her so much stress and anxiety as a young actress, Hathaway replied: "The simple answer is literally everything.
I was very in my head about a lot of things." She further explained, "I was just stuck in this feeling.
It’s that thing about, I want to achieve things, I want to grow, and you think, mistakenly, that the way you do that is to be really hard on yourself.
The Oscar-winner, who first found fame with The Princess Diaries in 2001, revealed how she was able to change her mindset years later.