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The goal in the first trimester, she said with a smile, was simply not to dry-heave in public. Hathaway called it the “craziest” symptom of this pregnancy. “You don’t just smell this summer,” she told Fallon.
She described the early months as a careful balancing act of staying professional while navigating new sensitivities. That small, practical aim seems to have carried her through the long days of interviews, red carpets and travel. The heightened sense of smell became the star of the story. It was not just stronger. It felt layered, almost like she could smell different eras at once. “You smell all of them. I went back to the 80s. The line drew laughs, but it also captured something many people recognise. Ordinary scents suddenly carry extra weight. On a press tour the effect was especially vivid. Walking through hotel back corridors, past garbage bins, through kitchens and into elevators meant encountering every leftover room-service order and every strong perfume or cologne. The perfume, she admitted, was particularly intense. People she cared about would lean in for a greeting and she would find herself fighting the urge to react. It turned everyday moments into a full sensory experience that was both fascinating and exhausting.