Jessica Alba revealed she does therapy sessions with her daughter Honor because the pair were squabbling too much.
The “Honey” actress, 42, got candid about reaching the end of her tether when her eldest daughter, now 15, was “probably 11.”
“We were arguing all the time about dumb stuff … I was like, ‘I don’t want to live like this. I didn’t want us to have a wedge between us,’” she told Real Simple in an interview published Tuesday.
“It’s a process and I’m not perfect,” Alba went on, noting that the process helped Honor understand that her mom “was just being a parent.”
“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,” the “Fantastic Four” star explained.
“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.’”
Alba, who also shares daughter Haven, 12, and son Hayes, 6, with husband Cash Warren, said her second daughter joined some of the sessions.
“[Therapy] put me in check. Like, ‘Yeah, I totally do that. And I’m sorry. I’m going to work on that,’” the Honest Company founder said.
“It gave her [Honor] 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. I just wanted to get to that point, and it worked.”
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Alba, who described therapy as “such a valuable tool,” previously noted that she and her daughters have moved on to individual sessions.
“We’re not doing it together anymore. They’re doing it on their own,” she told People last year.
“They’re older now,” she added.
The “Dark Angel” alum first spoke out about her family’s counseling journey in 2019.
“Some people think, like in my family, you talk to a priest and that’s it,” she said at Her Campus Media’s Her Conference.
“I didn’t grow up in an environment where you talked about this stuff, and it was just like shut it down and keep it moving, so I find a lot of inspiration just in talking to my kids.”
The “L.A.’s Finest” star met Warren, 44, while working on “The Fantastic Four” in 2004.
They got engaged in 2007 and spontaneously tied the knot at a Beverly Hills courthouse the following year.