Celebrity Pregnancy Secret: Jessica Alba (isn’t getting her pre-baby body back)

Salon.com recently posted this piece, written by Mary Elizabeth Williams.  

“Jessica Alba is a woman whose body can be usually found in the dictionary under the word “rocking.” But in a frank interview for the new issue of Allure, the actress, pregnant with her second child, admits that motherhood is a life-changing experience not just for a woman’s heart but her booty as well. Or as she puts it, “It’s a miracle what happens, but you definitely are different afterward.”

It’s not exactly headline news that pregnancy and childbirth do something to a woman – even a woman who has gained fame largely on the strength of her bikini-filling ability. But in a world where celebrities tend to celebrate the birth of their children by flaunting their abs on a magazine cover or a Victoria’s Secret runway, it’s almost pathetic how refreshing it is to have a famed sex symbol confess that “jeans just sort of zip up differently, and things hang differently” and that “‘I can’t ever get down to the weight I was before I had [my daughter] Honor.” That’s right, fans, a woman just admitted there’s a number on the scale she’s not seeing again — and she’s all right with that…”

(Read the complete post here)