Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep recall the moment they realized they’d never rely on anyone for money From Marilyn Monroe singing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” to the ditzy shopaholic archetypes that dominated many ’90s and early-2000s films, women in pop culture have long…
en portrayed as consumers of wealth rather than builders of it. But Anne Hathaway says that trope may finally be due for a rewrite
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She recalled standing at the top of a staircase overhearing her parents arguing about money and the cost of buying her school uniform. Her father, she remembered, told her mother she was spending too much. At that moment, something clicked. “I will never ever ever have to ask somebody to buy my children’s clothes or anything,” Streep said (1). “I just wanted that independence.” The memory lingered not because of the uniform itself, but because of what the argument represented — the vulnerability that can come with depending on someone else financially.