Jessica Alba For Elle: “I wore A Girdle”
5 Feb
Jessica Alba glams up the March 2009 edition of Elle magazine. The 27-year-old new mummy discusses marriage, motherhood and her post-pregnancy body. When asked about how she managed to look so thin for the Campari 2009 calendar just few months after giving birth, the Good Luck Chuck star responed: “I wore a girdle. I don’t have a six-pack – that’s just not my body at all.” Interview hihglights in full story!
On getting back into shape fast after giving birth: “I did it for the Campari job. [The workouts] were horrible. I cried. And I haven’t worked out since.
I wore a girdle. Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist—any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, “I slept in it.” I didn’t recover as fast as she did. I don’t have a sixpack—that’s just not my body at all.
I’m not completely back to where I was. It’s not the same, but it’s not that serious. I’d rather spend an evening with my baby and give her a bath and read her stories and watch her roll around than go work out in a gym.”
On her baby daughter Honor Marie: This is the first time I’ve been away from her. It’s been six days. It sucks; it’s the worst thing ever. But we Skype, so I can see her on video. The worst is when you can see her little chubby hands grab the screen, and I’m not there. [She pauses, her eyes welling up, then laughs as she wipes the tears away.] That’s a new thing—I never cried before. Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.”
On her family: “I come from a very conservative family—a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family. I was always very, very liberal, which weirded everyone out. I’m on tape at age five calling myself a feminist. We were in line at Disneyland, and I had a thick southern accent because we lived in Mississippi and Texas, so I’m like [adopts a Dollywood twang], “I’m a feminist! Women’ll rule the world! I’m never gonna rely on no man!”
We moved around a lot. At schools, I never really fit in. I was always hanging out with, like, the school nurse or my teachers—if that. On my first set, I was like, “Oh, I belong somewhere.” Movies, on every level, are like a circus of misfits. It’s a very bizarre life; it’s intense, and everyone has to be good at what they do or you won’t survive—you’ll just get crushed.”
