Jessica Alba spoke candidly about the reality of marriage just months before announcing her and Cash Warren’s divorce. In a newly resurfaced interview from April 2024, the actress didn’t hold back while talking about her and Warren’s relationship with Katherine Schwarzenegger over her. BDA Baby Podcast.
“I would say everything is rosy for two and a half years. But then you become roommates,” Alba said. “You just go through the motions and responsibilities. It’s a lot like checking boxes.
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When asked about how being a mother to the couple’s three children — daughters Honor, 16, and Haven, 13, and son Hayes, 7 — while balancing her career takes a toll on her and Warren’s marriage, Alba gave a refreshingly honest answer. “I think he might have gotten the short end of the stick,” she said, before clarifying: “I would say: It’s not even him, I would say it’s us, right? Because when I see him and spend time with him, and we really enjoy each other, This is our business and it feeds me too.”
“Every Wednesday we used to do a date night, or every week we’d set aside time — we’d at least do a date night, right? We wouldn’t have our phones and we’d just like talk. But then that stopped because of something, so we’re not consistent,” she added.
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Like all couples, Alba revealed that their relationship has room for improvement. “Obviously we have the camaraderie and comfort of saying, ‘You’re not going anywhere.’” “And so, sometimes, you don’t treat these people the best,” she explained. And you don’t take their feelings into consideration the way you take other people’s feelings into account, so I think that’s something you should always work on.
Warren also previously admitted that his marriage to Alba was “hard work.” During an interview with Us Weekly“It’s hard work, but we roll up our sleeves and do it. It’s wild. It’s the longest relationship I could have ever imagined,” he told the outlet.
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Last week, it was reported that Alba and Warren had recently split after 16 years of marriage. The couple met in 2004 on set Fantastic Fourbefore eloping in a Beverly Hills courthouse in May 2008 when Alba was nine months pregnant.
While the split surprised fans of Alba and Warren, the silver lining is that their divorce is expected to be amicable. “No matter what happens now, it looks like they will stay close,” a source said. the people. “If they’re filing for divorce, it’s not because of some nasty drama. They still look happy together.”
