Jessica Alba started therapy with daughter Honor, 15, because they fought too much

Jessica Alba has revealed the tool that saved her relationship with her eldest daughter amid constant blow-ups.

Jessica Alba reveals she and eldest daughter Honor go to therapy.

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 magazine 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 mum “was just being a parent.”

Jessica Alba says therapy saved her relationship with eldest daughter Honor.

“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.”

Alba, who described therapy as “such a valuable tool,” previously noted that she and her daughters have moved on to individual sessions.

Alba also shares daughter Haven, 12, and son Hayes, 6, with husband Cash Warren.

Alba and Honor now attend individual therapy sessions.

“We’re not doing it together anymore. They’re doing it on their own,” she toldPeople last year. “They’re older now.”

The Dark Angel star first spoke out about her family’s counselling 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 Fantastic Four in 2004.

They got engaged in 2007 and spontaneously tied the knot at a Beverly Hills courthouse the following year.

This article originally appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission

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