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By Liz Calvario
8:28 PM PDT, March 24, 2021
Jessica Alba was at the top of her acting career when she decided it was time to pursue new opportunities. The 39-year-old actress-turned-entrepreneur reveals in a new interview with Romper published on Wednesday that after welcoming her first child, daughter Honor, in 2008, her mindset changed.
“My mother had cancer at a really young age, in her early 20s. I grew up with chronic illness. I had five surgeries before I was 11 years old. I had chronic allergies, and I was hospitalized a lot as a child," she shares. "I had this real moment of, I want to live, and thrive, and spend as much time with this little person that I'm bringing into the world as possible and stay. So, my health matters. I want this little person to be healthy. And it's really freaking hard to be happy when you don't have your health."
"That's really what motivated me. My motivation was not like, ‘Am I ever going to get hired again?’ Frankly, I was at the top of my career,” adds Alba, who is also mother to daughter Haven, 9, and son Hayes, 3. "I couldn't go back to what I was doing before and be authentic. I just couldn't. I didn't care about it the same way."
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