Jessica Alba shares she has ‘spy cameras’ on her kids as they home school: ‘If they fight, I can rewind and see who really hit who first’
Jessica Alba may be a famous actress and co-founder of The Honest Company, but to her three kids she’s seen as the ‘cringey mom.’
The 39-year-old actress and entrepreneur spoke with Ellen guest host Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss on Friday’s episode.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all of her kids are going through ‘distance learning,’ as she has learned when to ‘call them out’ if they’re not paying attention. ‘I have spy cameras in their rooms, so I can see, are they messing around? Are they focusing? I can call them out. If they fight, I can rewind and see who really hit who first,’ Alba added with pride.
Cringey: Jessica Alba may be a famous actress and co-founder of The Honest Company, but to her three kids she’s seen as the ‘cringey mom’; she also said she has ‘spy cameras’ on her kids
Given all of her success – including being on the cover of Women’s Health magazine right now – tWitch wondered if her kids are in awe of her, but that’s not the case.
‘They think I’m so cringey. They think I’m the cringey mom, the definition of cringey. They actually said I should use the hashtag #CringeyMom,’ Alba said.
She told them that’s ‘so mean’ and there are so many ‘more cringey moms’ than her, adding that, ‘in the beginning of their life, they didn’t know I was an actress.’
tWitch and Jessica: The 39-year-old actress and entrepreneur spoke with Ellen guest host Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss on Friday’s episode
‘I remember when Honor was in first grade, she was mortified and she came home and she was like, “Why didn’t you tell me?”‘
Alba added that her kids, at that point, knew she worked at The Honest Company, but one of Honor’s friends brought a magazine into school with her mom on the cover.
Taller: Alba said that Honor is, ‘in that tween kind of age, she’s taller than me now, it happened so fast, she’s not a little baby anymore’
Honor was asking, ‘Why are you on this magazine?’ and when she told her she was an actress who is sometimes on magazines, ‘she felt so betrayed,’ Alba said with a laugh.
Alba most recently starred on the Spectrum crime drama series L.A.’s Finest with Gabrielle Union, and she’s attached to star in the action movie Trigger Warning.
She also opened up about how her 12-year-old daughter Honor reacted after she told her that she was an actress.
Distance: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all of her kids are going through ‘distance learning,’ as she has learned when to ‘call them out’ if they’re not paying attention
Cringey: ‘They think I’m so cringey. They think I’m the cringey mom, the definition of cringey. They actually said I should use the hashtag #CringeyMom,’ Alba said
Alba said that Honor is, ‘in that tween kind of age, she’s taller than me now, it happened so fast, she’s not a little baby anymore.’
She added that her nine-year-old daughter Haven is the one who, ‘loves all the friends and socializing,’ adding she has ‘found her way through COVID.’
Alba added they’ve had so many family ‘binge’ nights, and that Hayden is the one that shows her all of the TikTok dance moves before she performs them on her own TikTok channel, which has nearly 6 million followers.
Betrayed: Honor was asking, ‘Why are you on this magazine?’ and when she told her she was an actress who is sometimes on magazines, ‘she felt so betrayed,’ Alba said with a laugh