Anne Hathaway recently opened up in an interview with People magazine about her insecurities — and the critics who continuously try to pull them out of her. 

“I did everything so wrong for so long,” she explains of her early years in the spotlight, adding that though her career was flourishing, she suffered from “feelings of inadequacy, insecurity and nervousness and anxiety.”

“I’m not big on looking back, but I remember 10 years ago being so scared going into the whole awards season and doing what I thought I was supposed to do, so I barely ate anything at Christmas,” she added. “I thought movie stars had to have a certain body. I was just smoking, just smoking my nerves away and wasn’t nourishing myself.”

Now, Anne is married to producer Adam Shulman and is a mom to toddler son Jonathan, 2. The actress says she’s finally come to peace with her fame, and is entirely different from who she once was.

“I just figured out how to say thank you to life by taking care of myself,” she said. “By not apologizing for taking up space, which is not something I knew how to do 10 years ago.”

“It’s been a journey. I don’t look that different, but I just feel like the inside has transformed so much,” adding of her critics: “Everybody’s entitled to their opinion. What I appreciate is when the negativity has some intelligence behind it. What I don’t like is lazy negativity. If you’re going to take someone down, have a point of view! Be witty, maybe pun a little!”

Anne currently stars in Serenity, in theaters now.