Jessica Alba surfaced in Los Angeles this week for a girls’ day out with her daughters Honor, 15, and Haven, 12.
She shares her girls with her longtime husband and fellow actor Cash Warren, with whom she also has a son called Hayes, six.
During her latest outing, Jessica cut a casual figure in a fuzzy pair of blue sweats with a matching hoodie left open over her top.
Sweeping her caramel locks into a ponytail, she lent herself a bit of shade with a baseball cap and a pair of gleaming dark shades.
The sighting comes after Jessica revealed she and Honor entered therapy after squabbling so much that ‘I was like, I don’t want to live like this.’
Jessica Alba stepped out in Los Angeles this week with her daughters Honor, 15, and Haven, 12
She shares her girls with her longtime husband and fellow actor Cash Warren, with whom she also has a son called Hayes, six
Jessica spilled that she went into analysis about four years ago, and was accompanied by both of her daughters.
Eventually, Jessica was able to ameliorate some of her own behavior and Honor found it easier to understand that her mother ‘was just being a parent.’
Covering the new issue of Real Simple magazine, Jessica extolled the virtues of therapy while acknowledging that ‘it’s a process and I’m not perfect.’
She dished that she decided to seek help for herself and her daughters when ‘Honor was probably 11, and we were arguing all the time about dumb stuff.’
Jessica recalled that ‘I was like, I don’t want to live like this. This is not fun. I didn’t want us to have a wedge between us.’
She explained: ‘As her mother, when I say something, she’s going to hear it as an argument or as me trying to control her. I wanted there to be someone who could explain things in a way I couldn’t.’
Said she: ‘What I said to Honor was: “I want to be a better parent to you, and this is your forum to basically talk about everything that gets on your nerves that I do.”‘
The analyst helped soften Honor’s perception of her mother’s behavior, but also helped Jessica to change the behavior itself.
The sighting comes after Jessica revealed she and Honor entered therapy after squabbling so much that ‘I was like, I don’t want to live like this’
Jessica explained that ‘the therapist allowed me to see that it’s natural for kids to disagree with their parents, and as a parent it’s not always about being right or rational in that moment’
‘It put me in check. Like: “Yeah, I totally do that. And I’m sorry. I’m going to work on that.” It gave her a little bit of perspective too – that I’m not the bad guy; I’m just being a parent. She’ll come out the other side of it, and I’ll still be here,’ said Jessica.
‘I just wanted to get to that point, and it worked. And the therapist allowed me to see that it’s natural for kids to disagree with their parents, and as a parent it’s not always about being right or rational in that moment,’ the home goods mogul spilled. ‘I’m not gonna front, it’s a process and I’m not perfect.’
Therapy, in Jessica’s glowing appraisal, is ‘such a valuable tool to help you process your feelings. It’s what this issue is about!’
The process ‘gets you talking about what’s going on with you and unearths the things that aren’t feeling the best or might be confusing, or things that make you happy,’ the actress opined in the magazine.
‘And just unpacking it allows you to process it, and then you can repeat good behavior and find the behaviors you want to redirect. What a great tool for anybody.’
Last year, Jessica announced that she and her daughters had initially entered therapy together but had now found their way onto separate couches.
‘We’re not doing it together anymore. They’re doing it on their own,’ the mother of three informed People magazine. ‘They’re older now.’
Cash, who is the son of Hill Street Blues actor Michael Warren, met Jessica while working as an assistant director on her critically savaged 2005 film Fantastic Four.
Jessica is married to one Cash Warren, and in addition to their two daughters Honor and Haven they share a six-year-old son called Hayes
On an episode of her YouTube show Getting Honest, Jessica revealed that she was left in tears when Haven walked in on her and Cash having 𝑠e𝑥
They spontaneously decided to get married at a Beverly Hills courthouse one day in 2008 while Jessica was heavily pregnant with Honor.
A couple of years ago, the couple candidly discussed a psychologically thorny moment they experienced with their younger daughter.
On an episode of her YouTube show Getting Honest, Jessica revealed that she was left in tears when Haven walked in on her and Cash having 𝑠e𝑥.
‘It was the worst,’ said Cash. ‘We like spent five minutes in our bedroom laughing and like being like: “I can’t believe it, we just ruined our daughter! We ruined her!”‘
‘I started crying! I started crying,’ said Jessica, explaining that she then rang up Cash’s sister Koa who is ‘so good at helping us through challenges.’
Cash shared that ‘even’ his sister ‘had no advice’ – and Jessica noted that ‘by the time we called Koa, Haven had already texted her.’
An ’emergency meeting’ resulted for the family where Cash said: ‘Haven, bet that’s the last time you walk into our room without knocking?’
The upshot is that ‘now she knocks. It was like she learned her lesson!’ said Cash with a laugh as Jessica repeated that she ‘100% cried.’
