Anne Hathaway Breaks Her Silence on the ‘Loud' Viral Facelift Rumors

Anne Hathaway set the record straight on plastic surgery rumors.

Hathaway, 43, opened up about the swirling facelift rumors while chatting with Elle in a new interview published on Thursday, May 21. "We're at a time when people feel very confident in assuming what they think is fact, and sometimes what they think is accurate and sometimes it's not," she said, noting that she gets her snatched look thanks to her hairdresser, who braids two sections of her hair near her temple and pins them back.

"My preference would be to never comment on anything and to just live in the mystery and not draw attention to myself, but the speculation has gotten so loud that you do feel the need to just get your truth out there," Hathaway continued. "And I'll probably always wonder, ‘Should I have posted that or not?'" she added, referring to a video of her hairstylist demonstrating the look.

"Should I have just kept going and done the thing that makes me happy and makes me feel more confident on the red carpet?" Hathaway pondered. "But I felt like the conversation was becoming distracting."

"Also, by the way, these are huge medical decisions that people are presuming," she added. "I wanted to show that, like, no, I didn't make a huge medical decision. It's just two braids."

As for whether she would ever get a facelift, Hathaway is open to it. "And by the way, the other thing about all this is, I might still get a facelift someday," she explained.

Elsewhere in the interview, Hathaway got candid about being "harsh" with her younger self.

"One of the things about younger me is she was really scared, and I think that fear made me harsh with myself," the actress said. "I shudder at the thought that I might have inadvertently been harsh with other people while I was being harsh with myself. I actually get nauseous thinking about it."

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This story was originally published May 22, 2026 at 11:24 AM.