Jessica Alba is the August cover girl for Allure Magazine. This is Alba’s second August cover, after her piece in Latina Magazine. You might ask, “Does Jessica Alba have something to promote?” The answer is no. She’s just doing these magazine shoots to talk about herself, apropos of nothing, no film, no new project. Guess what she talks about in this Allure interview? No, not how it’s so hard to be racially ambiguous! Alba has returned to her favorite subject, her weight and how it was so hard for her to not go back to her pre-baby body. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that losing the baby weight is a big deal, and I feel for every lady who struggles with that weight loss. But it’s one of Alba’s favorite subjects, and prepare yourselves – she’s going to be talking about the weight she put on during her second pregnancy for the next five years.

Losing the baby weight: “I can’t ever get down to the weight I was before I had Honor. My body’s just different. The jeans just sort of zip up differently, and things hang differently. It’s a miracle what happens, but you definitely are different afterward. Unless you’re Gisele.”

Embracing her own sexuality: “I was quite shy with it. It wasn’t something I embraced until I had my daughter. I saw how incredible and amazing it is to be a woman and to be able to create a life. There’s a reason why certain areas of the body are desirable – because it all leads to reproduction. There’s a science behind it all. It’s not just to sell whatever you’re selling on a billboard or a magazine or a movie.”

Alba on how everyone is talking about her: “My publicist said the other day, ‘You can’t just be going to the grocery store – you have to be ‘flaunting your baby bump,’ ” she says. “You’re pregnant. Your stomach is not going to be flat. You’re not ‘flaunting’ it; you’re just walking to the store or across a parking lot.”

Nudity in films: “At least I’m still covered. I’m wearing as much as a bathing suit. It’s not like I’m naked. I’m not terribly comfortable with being in a bikini, but covering up my genitals is different than not covering up my genitals, at the end of the day. I do see a difference in that, to put it really frankly.”

Alba’s fans are odd: Alba was recently horrified by a tabloid story in which a young woman had sought to recapture the attention of an ex-boyfriend by being surgically altered to look more like the actress. “That’s just so bizarre, because the physical is so fleeting anyway,” she says. “And when you’re in a relationship, the physical lasts for, maximum, two years. And then you don’t care how attractive you are to that person—if they drive you nuts, they drive you nuts.”

Alba, on approaching her thirtieth birthday: “According to some people, I peaked in my early 20s,” she says with a chuckle. “I was like, ‘Oh, really? I feel like I’m getting better.'”

[From Allure & People Mag]

The part that cracked me up was “My publicist said the other day, ‘You can’t just be going to the grocery store – you have to be ‘flaunting your baby bump.’ You’re pregnant. Your stomach is not going to be flat. You’re not ‘flaunting’ it; you’re just walking to the store or across a parking lot.” Alba is trying to make a point about the language we use, and sure, I’m guilty of using “flaunt” and that kind of stuff too (write for a website for three years and try not to ever write “flaunting her bump.”) BUT – what are all of these imaginary media outlets who are writing about her? Alba paps herself nearly every day, like she’s trying to grow a fanbase of mothers like Jennifer Garner. Except that Garner and her girls DO make it to the celebrity sites and tabloids, because there is a lot of interest in that family. Not so for the Alba-Warren family. Alba keeps papping herself, and no one is really interested. She’s FLAUNTING the idea that people are interested in how she flaunts her bump. Who’s buying?

Photos courtesy of Allure.