Anne Hathaway reveals how her husband's love has 'changed' her

She's a successful, independent woman who has reached international fame thanks to films such as The Princess Diaries and The Devil Wears Prada. 

But it wasn't until Anne Hathaway, 34, met her husband Adam Shulman that she really felt complete, she told the new issue of US Elle magazine, the Daily Mail reports.

"He changed my ability to be in the world comfortably," she told the magazine. "I think the accepted narrative now is that we, as women, don't need anybody. But I need my husband. His unique and specific love has changed me."

The actress, who has been married to Shulman for four years, recently appeared at the UN for International Women's Day to fight for paid parental leave in the US.

She said she became passionate about the issue after her son Jonathan Rosebanks was born and revealed she "can't believe we don't already have it."

Anne continued: "When [my son] Johnny was a week old and I was holding him and I was in the ninth level of ecstasy, I just all of a sudden thought, 'Mommy guilt is invented nonsense.' We're encouraged to judge each other, but we should be turning our focus to the people and institutions who should be supporting us and currently aren't."

The actress will spend the next four years as a UN Goodwill Ambassador and will focus on making changes in the current parental leave policy, including advocating for paid leave.

Currently, the US only offers 12 weeks of unpaid leave for mothers.

"Somehow we and every American parent were expected to be back to normal in under three months without income," she said during her impassioned speech.

On International Women's Day, the actress shared the first photo of her one-year-old son in an Instagram post, showing the little boy watching his mum speak out for women's rights. 

"JRS watching Mommy give her speech at the UN yesterday," she wrote.

In addition to paid parental leave, Anne touched on the issue of gender inequality in the workplace, which she says extends to Hollywood as well. 

Anne, who is set to star in the all-female reboot of Ocean's Eight, says the issue really hit home when she was on set with the cast of predominantly women. 

"Hollywood is not a place of equality," she admits. "I don't say that with anger or judgment; it's a statistical fact. And even though I've been in some female-centric films, I've never been in a film like this. It just kind of makes you aware of the ways you sort of unconsciously change yourself to fit certain scenarios."

She continued: "It's not better or worse, or right or wrong, but there are certain things you understand about one another because of experiences you have in common … it's probably easy for men to take that for granted. Just being on a set where I'm the one who possesses that ease is really something. It's a nice alternative narrative."

- Daily Mail