Jessica Alba has commented that before she gave birth to her two children, she was far more critical of her body when in truth she admits it was “probably pretty awesome”. These days, her attitude has changed and she doesn’t have time to worry about her body so much, which has given her a much healthier point of view when it comes to looking at her own figure:
“I was a lot more critical of my body when it was probably pretty awesome. It’s like, why did I not ever wear jean shorts? That’s so crazy. I was so skinny! I didn’t have any cellulite…what was I thinking?! I was more willing to wear short skirts after I had my kids. I never wore them before. Ever. I was so self-conscious. But I remember I was 28 or 29, at an MTV award thing, and my girlfriend Kelly was like, ‘You should wear a short skirt, because you are not going to be this age forever.’ Now I’m a lot more confident in my skin–because who cares? At the end of the day, it’s so much time spent on something that really doesn’t matter that much.”
Opening up on her acting career, Jessica says she has been working as an actress for twenty years this year and it has surprised her:
“This year, I’ve acted for 20 years. That’s so messed up! How did I do anything for 20 years? [Laughs] Now I don’t work just to work. To me, doing two or three days on a movie with a cool director is more important than spending my life on a set.”
Jessica reveals that to unwind, she loves taking a bath on her own and also is a Pinterest fan when it comes to unwinding after the kids are asleep:
“A bath after the kids go to sleep. I put in a bag of Epsom salts or Honest Bubble Bath, and sometimes I’ll watch TV or sometimes I’m on my iPad on Pinterest. There is no way that taking a bath is fun when the kids are awake, because they want to get in, too, and they’re for sure peeing in it!”
