Jessica Alba stepped out in Los Angeles this week for a girls’ day out with her daughters Honor, 15, and Haven, 12.
She shares her girls with longtime husband and fellow actor Cash Warren, with whom she also has son Hayes, six.
During her latest outing, Jessica cut a relaxed figure in a fuzzy pair of blue sweatshirts with a matching hoodie open over her top.
She swept her caramel locks into a ponytail and lent herself a bit of shade with a baseball cap and a pair of shiny dark shades.
The sighting comes after Jessica revealed that she and Honor went to therapy after arguing 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 longtime husband and fellow actor Cash Warren, with whom she also has son 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 improve some of her own behavior and Honor found it easier to understand that her mother was ‘just being a parent’.
Covers the new issue Really simple magazine, Jessica extolled the virtues of the therapy while acknowledging that “it’s a process and I’m not perfect.”
She disclosed that she decided to seek help for herself and her daughters when ‘Honor was probably 11 and we were arguing all the time about stupid things.’
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 will 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 that I couldn’t.’
She said: ‘What I said to Honor was, “I want to be a better parent to you and this is your forum to basically talk about anything that bothers you like I do.”
The analyst helped soften Honor’s perception of her mother’s behavior, but also helped Jessica change the behavior herself.
The sighting comes after Jessica revealed she and Honor went to therapy after arguing 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 children 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. And I’m sorry. I’ll work on it.” It also gave her a little bit of perspective – that I’m not the bad guy; I’m just a parent. She’ll come out the other side of it and I’ll still be here,” Jessica said.
‘I just wanted to get to that point and it worked. And the therapist allowed me to see that it’s natural for children to disagree with their parents, and as a parent it’s not always about being right or rational in that moment,’ gushed the home goods mogul. “I’m not leading, it’s a process and I’m not perfect.”
Therapy is, in Jessica’s glowing assessment, ‘such a valuable tool to help you process your emotions. That’s what this case is about!’
The process “makes you talk about what’s going on with you and uncovers the things that don’t feel the best or maybe confusing, or things that make you happy,” the actress told the magazine.
‘And just unpacking it allows you to process it, and then you can repeat good behavior and find the behavior that you want to redirect. What a great tool for someone.’
Last year, Jessica announced that she and her daughters had initially gone to therapy together but had now found their way to separate couches.
‘We don’t do it together anymore. They do it on their own,’ stated the mother of three 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 acclaimed 2005 film Fantastic Four.
Jessica is married to a Cash Warren and in addition to their two daughters Honor and Haven, they share a six-year-old son named Hayes
In 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 in a Beverly Hills courthouse one day in 2008 while Jessica was heavily pregnant with Honor.
A few years ago, the couple candidly discussed a psychologically thorny moment they experienced with their younger daughter.
In 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.
“That was the worst,” Cash said. “We would spend like five minutes in our bedroom laughing and like being like, “I can’t believe it, we just ruined our daughter! We destroyed her!”
‘I started to cry! I started crying,’ Jessica said, explaining that she then called Cash’s sister Koa, who is ‘so good at helping us through challenges.’
Cash shared that ‘even’ his sister ‘didn’t have a clue’ – and Jessica noted that ‘by the time we called Koa, Haven had already sent a text’.
An ’emergency meeting’ resulted for the family, with Cash saying: ‘Haven, bet this is the last time you walk into our room without knocking?’
The result is that ‘now she knocks. It was like she learned her lesson!’ Cash said with a laugh as Jessica repeated that she ‘100% cried.’