Jessica Alba revealed why she took a break from her acting career after giving birth to her first child.
The 39-year-old woman welcomed a daughter named Honor in 2008. The co-founder of The Honest Company, who is on the cover of Romper in March, was candid about how motherhood changed her outlook on her health and Hollywood.
“My mother had cancer at a very young age,” the star told the newspaper. “Many women in my family have passed on various types of cancer, none of them genetic.”
Alba noted that she “grew up with a chronic illness”.
“I had five surgeries before I was 11,” she explained. “I had a chronic allergy and I was very hospitalized as a child. I had this real moment of, I want to live and prosper, and spend as much time as possible with this little one that I am bringing to the world and staying. So, my health is important. I want this little person to be healthy. And it is very difficult to be happy when you do not have your health. “
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Jessica Alba attends the Vanity Fair 2020 Oscar party at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 9, 2020, in Beverly Hills, California.
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“This is really what motivated me,” continued Alba. “My motivation was not, ‘Will I ever be hired again?’ Frankly, I was at the top of my career. “
After giving birth to Honor, Alba realized that “I couldn’t go back to what I did before and be authentic”.
“I just couldn’t do it,” admitted Alba. “I just didn’t care about it the same way anymore. It was something bigger. I feel like if I were, I think, kind of get this platform, what can I do with it that could be meaningful and create a difference? That reality it felt so real when I first became a mother. “
Today, Alba is also a proud mother of daughter Haven, 9, and son Hayes, 3, with husband Cash Warren, 42. The couple originally married in 2008.
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Jessica Alba and her husband Cash Warren.
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On February 7, Alba accessed Instagram, where she shared a video of her and her father dancing together. According to Alba, patriarch Mark Alba had thyroid cancer and was undergoing “radiation therapy”.
In her post, Alba shared encouraging hashtags, like “come on” and “you made it”.