Anne Hathaway ‘doesn’t age’ in makeup free selfie: ‘Like a fine wine’

Anne Hathaway has stepped out multiple times this week after a brief hiatus, and the Oscar winner has left fans floored by her “ageless” appearance.

Anne Hathaway is having somewhat of a public resurgence this week.

The 40-year-old US actress has upped her outings to promote her latest film, Eileen, walking the red carpet for the first time in months at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this week, and then again at Paris Fashion Week on Thursday.

Fans were left stunned by the Oscar winning star’s youthful glow at Valentino’s Haute Couture Show, where she rocked a leopard-print Valentino mini dress with matching stockings and heels.

Anne Hathaway attends the Valentino Haute Couture Spring Summer 2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week. Picture: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

Before the event, Hathaway posted a makeup-free selfie from her hotel room on Instagram, which attracted thousands of comments from her followers who were blown away by her “ageless” appearance.

“She doesn’t age. Like AT ALL,” one user wrote. “WHAT IS THIS DARK MAGIC?” another questioned.

“You never get old,” a third said, while dozens more begged the Devil Wears Prada alum to “reveal your skincare routine”.

Hathaway's no-makeup selfie stunned her followers.

Elsewhere, a video of Hathaway at the Fashion Week after-party is lighting up Twitter, where she is seen breaking loose without a care in the world as she dances to Lady Marmalade:

I guess it is safe to say that Anne Hathaway broke the internet.. Oh mypic.twitter.com/OQFqYVw679

— Tyna ❤️💍 (@delucabishop1) January 26, 2023

I’m obsessed with whatever era of Anne Hathaway we’re in right now https://t.co/NKFeZob6PK

— nico (@NicosTwtAccount) January 26, 2023

How do I party with Anne Hathaway

— babe (@yeahb0y) January 26, 2023

God i love anne hathaway 😂😭pic.twitter.com/zQy5cPIRgt

— R A F A E L 👋 (@cowboylikeraf) January 26, 2023

ANNE???? ANNIE? MS HATHAWAY??? ANNE HATHAWAY. pic.twitter.com/gHIBVGeIVL

— em / lady oracle / cosmic creepers (@ekxpo) January 26, 2023

Hathaway being embraced by the masses comes after a turbulent decade for the screen star, who has struggled with her public image over the years.

She first burst onto screens at just 18 when her debut movie, Disney comedy The Princess Diaries, became an unexpected success, and the New York born star went on to book back-to-back box office hits.

But the mother-of-two has at times earned the ire of critics, notably after hosting the 2011 Oscars with James Franco, in a gig that was smashed as “cringe-worthy”, while Hathaway was branded a “try hard” and a “theatre kid”.

This criticism intensified after her multi-award winning performance as Fantine in Les Miserables in 2012.

At the 2013 Golden Globes, she dubbed her award a “lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self-doubt”, which many thought was over-rehearsed.

That same evening, when Les Mis picked up the big gong of the night, Hathaway grabbed the microphone and continued her acceptance speech despite being surrounded by the rest of the cast.

And then, at the Oscars, she declared, “It came true!” after accepting the Best Supporting Actress gong, and later admitted to rehearsing the moment.

Anne Hathaway won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2013. Picture: Getty Images

Her headline-making behaviour during the 2013 award season sparked the hashtag #Hathahate, which prompted Hathaway to take a two-year hiatus. She didn’t appear on the big screen again until 2014’s Interstellar.

Addressing the hate she received at the time at Elle’s Women in Hollywood event last year, Hathaway spoke candidly about what she went through.

“Ten years ago, I was given an opportunity to look at the language of hatred from a new perspective,” Hathaway said at the event.

“For context – this was a language I had employed with myself since I was seven. And when your self-inflicted pain is suddenly somehow amplified back at you at, say, the full volume of the internet … It’s a thing.”