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" Anne Hathaway has confessed that she was previously addicted to &amp;quot;people-pleasing&amp;quot;.  The Dark Knight Rises actress claimed that her tendency to put others&amp;#039; happiness before her own made her feel &amp;quot;desperate&amp;quot;, a pattern which only broke after she split from ex-boyfriend Raffaello Follieri - currently serving prison time for money-laundering and wife fraud - in 2009. Hathaway explained to Harper&amp;#039;s Bazaar: &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s something very addictive about people-pleasing. It&amp;#039;s a thought pattern and a habit that feels really, really good until it becomes desperate. It&amp;#039;s one of the reasons that relationship ended. I wasn&amp;#039;t able to grow or foster anything.  &amp;quot;I think a lot of girls have that story. It&amp;#039;s a big moment when you step away from that and say, &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m going to be exactly who I am. And I&amp;#039;m going to be brave enough to only be with someone who wants me the way I am&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Hathaway said that she has moved on from harmful patterns and is currently enjoying a better relationship with boyfriend Adam Shulman.  &amp;quot;So far, it&amp;#039;s worked out great, which has its wonderful side, of course, but also it was exhausting, and sometimes it would freak me out. Mellow doesn&amp;#039;t always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life,&amp;quot; she said. Hathaway has previously insisted that she learns from difficult situations and is then able to let them go. She also admitted that she felt like a &amp;quot;lost, timid person&amp;quot; during the early days of her career.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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