When: Anne Hathaway announced on Instagram that she and her husband are expecting their third child, the internet erupted with happiness for the couple. However, while millions of people know Anne’s filmography inside and out – from ‘The Princess Diaries’ to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ to ‘Les Misérables,’ much less can tell you about the man standing next to her.According to Cosmopolitan, Adam Shulman45, is not a man who flirts with the spotlight. Yet over the past decade and a half, she has quietly emerged as a multifaceted creative force in her own right, balancing roles as an actor, film producer and jewelry designer while maintaining an impressive private relationship with one of the biggest names in entertainment.
Adam: Shulman New York roots and early career path
Like Anne, Shulman’s roots run deep in New York City. After studying theater at Brown University and honing his skills at a summer program at NYU’s Tisch School, he began his career with small roles in television and film work. But instead of chasing the traditional acting path that may have defined his career, Shulman chose a different path, one that ultimately fits beautifully with his latest collaboration with Hathaway.
The love story of Anne Hathaway and Adam Shulman
Their love story is almost cinematic in its timing. In the summer of 2008, Anne navigated one of the most publicized heartbreaks of her life following the arrest of her boyfriend Raffaello Follieri on fraud charges. It was during this vulnerable time that he met Shulman through friends at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Despite the chaos surrounding her, Anne felt something undeniably click into place.Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar UK, Anne reflected on the moment. “I knew from the second I met him that he was the love of my life. I also knew that I couldn’t have met him at a worse time.” But he chose to take the leap, and what began as a chance encounter at a film festival would become the foundation of a lasting partnership.
The collaboration of Adam Shulman and Anne Hathaway as film producers
After marrying in 2012 in the dramatic setting of Big Sur, California, Shulman and Hathaway began working together professionally. In 2014, they co-produced ‘Song One’, an indie drama in which Anne also starred. Rather than creating the tensions that often plague working couples, the experience deepened their mutual respect. Speaking to People magazine, Anne praised her instincts as a producer, revealing that she learned from him during the process – a testament to her eye for storytelling and her ability to balance creative vision with collaboration.
Anne Hathaway has often spoken of the positive impact husband Adam Shulman has had on her life and career. Image credit. (Anne Hathaway Instagram)
Adam Shulman’s journey in jewelry design and the Lightkeeper pendant
Perhaps most unexpectedly, Shulman found his true creative calling not on film sets but in jewelry design. His path to this field began suddenly when he befriended a designer Heidi Nahser Fink on the set of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Recognizing her visual sensibility and creative potential, Fink encouraged her to pursue jewelry design. In 2011, the two founded a jewelry company named after Shulman’s maternal grandfather, a jeweler himself.The company’s signature piece, the Lightkeeper pendant, emerged from an intimate moment between Shulman and Hathaway. While he was filming in London and he was working in theater in New York, he confessed that he missed “the lights of his life.” In an interview with a jewelry publication, Adam explained the inspiration. “When Annie was a long shoot in London, and I was doing theater work in New York, he said to me, ‘I don’t feel like I have lights in my life,’ and so the trademark piece of the company, called Lightkeeper, was created.When he started wearing it in public, the demand for the piece exploded, and the jewelry business officially took off. Shulman’s design talents extended to one of the most important pieces of jewelry in Hathaway’s life – her engagement ring. A stunning 6-carat emerald-cut diamond set with a diamond jeweler, the ring reflects Shulman’s deep understanding of what his wife loves and appreciates.
Adam Shulman and Anne Hathaway’s tattoos
What makes Shulman and Hathaway’s relationship unique is their ability to maintain genuine intimacy in an industry obsessed with exposure. They chose to keep their romance private. The couple’s matching “M” tattoos, which Anne revealed during an appearance on ‘The Drew Barrymore Show’, symbolize their philosophy. “The idea is that individually we are whole, but together we are more,” Anne explained. “I don’t expect him to complete me, and he doesn’t expect me to complete him. I’m my own person. He’s his own person, and we chose to be together because we believe we can make each other better.”
Anne Hathaway’s emotional path to: motherhood:
Anne’s road to becoming a mother of three children was not straight or easy. In 2015, while starring in the six-week off-Broadway run of the one-woman show “Grounded” — a role that required her to act out giving birth on stage every night — Anne quietly went into labor. He later opened up about how surreal and painful the experience was, telling Vanity Fair, “The first time it didn’t work for me. I was doing a play, and I had to give birth on stage every night… It was too much to watch it when I was on stage pretending that everything was fine.
Adam Shulman as the father, and the future of the family as they wait for baby no. 3:
Since welcoming Jonathan in 2016 and Jack in 2019, Shulman has embraced fatherhood with the same quiet thoughtfulness he brings to his other endeavors. The couple, who married in 2012, spent years deliberately keeping their sons out of sight. Now, after two pregnancies that came with real heartache along the way, they are preparing to welcome their third child and become a family of five.