At a time when Hollywood and the liberal feminist media champion the idea that children hold women back, one big name actress is stressing that motherhood was a “journey” that taught her to “own” her womanhood.
During a Facebook live panel Thursday night, hosted by Alba’s organic household-product business The Honest Company, Alba and other professional women discussed, “all things career, ambition and the state of women stereotypes.”
As a young girl, Alba admitted, she decided to act because she was “painfully” introverted.
“I was just so not confident that I chose a career to be other people at 11. Because I was so uncomfortable in my own skin,” she began. “I was like, ‘I literally want to be anybody else.’ And that’s why, for me, acting and being someone else, saying other people’s words and living that reality, was liberating for me.”
“I put on the show – the extrovert – like it’s a role that I play,” she added, “but it’s not who I naturally am.”
But all of that changed when Alba became a mother at 30.
“Being a mother allowed – it gave me the liberty to talk about myself and my sexuality in a way that I felt ownership over it,” she said. “Where before, I always felt like it was – I was something for, I was an object, and I was something that need to be marketed, and I was part of someone else’s story.”
Motherhood, the 35-year-old actress said, was a “journey” she needed to “own” herself.
“I didn’t really own my sexuality and my womanhood until I became a mom,” she continued, “And it took that journey for that to happen.” Video below.
Even then, Alba said, it wasn’t until she became a “mom a second time” that she really felt “like I got into my skin." Her “diving into” work at The Honest Company also made her feel “ownership in my leadership as a woman.”
Other businesswomen on Alba’s panel included Refinery29 Chief Content Officer, Amy Emmerich, ClassPass’s Payal Pujji, REVOLVE’s Raissa Gerona, Ouai Haircare’s Jen Atkin and The Zoe Report’s Rachel Zoe.
In the past, other celebrities, such as actress Kirsten Dunst in 2014, have sadly become media targets for publicly valuing motherhood.
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