Hathaway confirmed Apatow’s statement, noting that her issue with Knocked Up was indeed a result of her own relation to motherhood, having not experienced it firsthand. “I didn’t know how I was going to feel on the other side about giving birth,” Hathaway told Allure. The character was given to Katherine Heigl, who later landed herself in hot water after revealing to Vanity Fair that she thought the movie was “a little sexist.”