Jessica Alba on Lohan: ‘don’t feel comfortable talking about that,’ calls daughter chubby


I’m not a fan of Jessica Alba, but I’ll grudgingly admit that she seems more tolerable now that she’s a wife and mother. She’s still full of it, though, and there’s something very holier-than-thou about her. There’s a reason MK at Dlisted nicknamed her “Miseralba.”

Anyway, a few months ago we heard some pretty believable rumors that Alba’s husband Cash Warren was getting too cozy with Lindsay Lohan out at some clubs. There were supposedly eyewitness accounts of them making out, but Alba went on to claim that it wasn’t true and that she was great friends with Lindsay, saying “She’s really nice. We hang out and chat for hours about girl stuff.” Only when Alba got asked on Letterman earlier this week whether she should step in to “help” Lindsay with her presumed drug addiction (Which Lindsay of course denies and which Letterman only alluded to) she clammed up and got nervous, saying “I don’t feel comfortable talking about that.” Was it because she can’t stand Lindsay after the way she macked on her husband or because she didn’t want to publicly acknowledge or deny that Lindsay has a problem? You can see the video of that part above.

OK! Magazine has more on Alba’s Letterman appearance, where she wore that ridiculous frilly blue baby doll dress with giant green velvet platform heels. She looked like a junior high student trying to look sexy for the spring formal. Alba talked about her daughter, Honor Marie Warren, who turned two on June 7, and said that she “overfed” her as a baby and that she weighed as much at six months as she does now, calling her “chubby.” She also said she’s a strict mom and talked about how Honor likes to defy her, but takes her time outs like a little champ. Why does it not surprise me that Alba is a strict mom who monitors her daughter’s weight?

Jessica Alba made an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater in NYC on Monday to talk about her new film Machete. But instead the conversation turned to her daughter Honor Marie and how she was “overfed” as a baby. “She weighed just as much at six months as she does now,” Jessica confessed to David Letterman. “She was really chubby.”

Jessica revealed to David that Honor Marie really doesn’t disturb her beauty sleep.

“When she was like six months old, I would overfeed her,” Jessica says.”So, when [kids are] really full, they don’t wake up hungry.”

“That sounds abusive!” Jessica jokes but adds, “She was really chubby. She weighed just as much at six months as she does now.”

But now, Honor is causing Jessica a little more trouble.

“She’s walking and talking, she has lots of opinions,” she explains. “She talks about everything she wants and needs. She said she wants coffee in the morning.”

But the mom has a handle on little Honor Marie — she gives her water in a coffee cup!

“I’m very strict with her. When it’s time for her to eat, whether she’s hollering or whatever, it’s time to eat,” she said. “She gets a time-out if she cries for no reason. So then she stops because she doesn’t want a time-out.”

“Sometimes she asks me to go to time-out. If she does something bad she’ll say, ‘Honor time-out?’ and I’ll say, ‘Yeah, you’re getting a time-out’.”

[From OK!]

You see Alba out with Honor all the time. That kid is a cutie although she’s definitely learned from her mom how to give the paps the side eye. Do you think that Alba has plenty of help at home that she’s not acknowledging? Like a nanny, cook and cleaner that come every day? I wonder how much she’s really involved in feeding and disciplining her daughter. It sounds like she does it all, but I would bet she has full time staff. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.

Getting back to the interview, I don’t think she should call her daughter “chubby” at six months! It seems mean to me plus it just wasn’t true. Honor looked totally normal as a baby, judging from photographs.

Here are photos of Honor at six and seven months vs. a more recent photo below. She doesn’t look chubby to me, she’s a baby for goodness sake! Alba could be passing on her body issues to her daughter. Maybe I just don’t like her though.

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  1. kat says:

    I don’t know. I’m not a fan of hers, but I see nothing wrong with calling a baby chubby. Babies *are* chubby and are supposed to be. I view it as affectionate rather than passing on body dysmorphia. What mother hasn’t loved on chubby little cheeks and dimpled hands and feet?

  2. Anaya says:

    Jessica isn’t calling Honor chubby now. She just meant when Honor was a baby that she was chubby which is a silly thing to say because all babies are chubby at 6 months old. It’s normal. Pediatricians measure and weigh infants then calculate whether or not they are growing as they should according to their length, weight, age, and gender so by the looks of it Honor was just an average size infant.

    I don’t believe a child should be purposely overfed just so they sleep longer at night. Yes, Jessica, that is abusive. Part of being a parent is to be present for your child at all times including 3am if they wake up wanting to be held, fed, or just to play. Jessica comes off as sounding selfish for doing that. A parent should adjust to the child’s schedule early on not make the child adjust to their’s especially at such a young age. Mother-baby bonding time trumps beauty sleep.

  3. NayNay says:

    I cannot stand this chick. I think she is full of herself.

    I do not agree with giving time-outs for crying. Babies cry, it’s what they do. I do not feel that they should be punished for it.

  4. LOVE ANGELINA says:

    I think Alba was being respectful in not talking about Linds recent legal issues. They are “co-stars” in a new film together and I think it would have been in poor taste to discuss LL’s current troubles.

    There are younger kids who are chubbier than most. Childhood obesity is a huge issue in America and if you over indulge a child in food it can be a bad thing. I think Jessica is just taking whatever steps needed to keep her child healthy.

  5. Chrissy says:

    I’m confused as to how you can overfeed a 6 month old. Unless you are constantly sticking a bottle in the baby’s face every time she cries, there is just no way. And, from what my doctor told me with my kids, there is no way to overfeed a baby while breast-feeding.

    Honor looks like a beautiful, perfect HEALTHY baby! I always referred to my babies as chubby but that was a GOOD thing in my mind. I LOVED the chub and they were eating well so I knew that’s exactly how they are supposed to look! I feel for kiddos when their moms or dads are hyper-sensitive about their kids’ weight. It doesn’t bode well for the kid’s future!!

  6. Chrissy says:

    NayNay – I agree! Crying for no reason? Uhhh … that’s what toddlers do!! Most of the time their “upsets” aren’t rational!! My kids are 5 and 7 and sometimes they still get upset for very little to no reason. I can’t fathom punishing a young child just for being upset.

  7. Marjalane says:

    Why so many pictures of her? Not sure why I dislike her because I can’t even think of anything I’ve ever seen her in! I guess I pretty much take Michael K’s word on her being a bitch- she does sport an “I’m better than you” bitchface most of the time. Her daughter’s adorable though!

  8. Kitten says:

    I think saying that she’s passing on her eating disorder to her baby by calling her “chubby” is pretty ridiculous. All babies look the same to me and they always seem “chubby”. Chubby can be cute.

  9. Ruby Red Lips says:

    There is nothing wrong with calling a baby chubby – most (not all) babies are chubby and trying to turn this comment into something sinister like body issues is completely ridiculous

  10. SammyHammy says:

    “Yes, Jessica, that is abusive”

    Oh, Good God. Not everything is abusive. I’m so tired of everything one happens to not like being labeled “abusive.”

  11. Milan says:

    for God’s sake, most babies are considered chubby at that age. I get the feeling you simply don’t like her. And where did she say she is monitoring Honor’s weight every second, you’re making her sound like she is about to send Honor to fat camp…and feed her nothing but hummus. She’s an eejit… but a harmless one, and she sounds like most average first time mothers. Jeez,saying that she is passing on her body issues coz of that statement, come now, admit you are wrong. She doesn’t seem like a crazy weight monitoring jihadist, who will teach Honor to yell,’Infidel!’ at a pork chop. Not cool, man, not cool at all.

  12. Anaya says:

    @Sammy
    Jessica admitted she gave Honor more food just because she feels it made her sleep longer. I don’t think that’s right. I didn’t complain when I had to get up at 3 or 4 in the morning when my child was a baby. I knew it was part of the job of being a new mom. I’m not saying Jessica is a bad mother. Some babies naturally eat more than others which is fine. To me it just sounded like Jessica didn’t want to have to deal with the baby in middle of the night so that’s why I said what I did. It doesn’t matter now anyway. Honor is 2 years old and probably sleeps just fine at night.

  13. Just a Poster says:

    My babies were chubby at 6 months and were cute as buttons! Some babies are just bigger than others.

    I don’t think she is being too strict with the eating, some kiddos do better on a schedule while others thrive on the go with the flow.

    And as far as the time outs, maybe Honor is starting to ramp up the diva antics.. sometimes a time out can stop those right in their tracts.

    I know you can’t tell much by photos but Honor looks like she is growing and thriving to me. But what the heck do I know.. I am only a mother of 3 😉

  14. Delta Juliet says:

    Both of my babies were born on the smaller side, and turned into big porkers by 6 months! Chub and rolls everywhere. And they were breastfed until that point, so it wasn’t overfeeding, it was good health. My oldest is 7 now and lean as a rail. So chubby babies don’t always equal to overweight children. If they are active and don’t dine exclusively on crap they’ll be fine.
    And Alba bugs me LOL But just in general, not for this specific instance.

  15. aenflex says:

    She is beautiful and so is her lil baby. But yeah, she’s all too aware of it, and I personally dont think she’s all the great of an actress.

  16. marge says:

    I have to agree; I don’t see the weight-control mom CB talks about.
    CB, you REALLY dislike her!

  17. ME says:

    She annoys me b/c she always acts like she’s above everyone else when she’s outon the streets…but in interviews she tries to act all sweet, innocent and SMART. UGH.
    Maybe i’m just jealous b/c I find her perfect – body, everything…

  18. gee_gee says:

    Eh. This is why celeb moms are better off not talking about how they raise their kids. People end up taking it the wrong way.

    Calling her kid chubby? Not a big deal. Most babies, in my opinion, look chubby for a while until they become toddlers. It’s not unusual and I don’t think it’s insulting.

    And why should she talk about Lindsay? I’m glad she didn’t. God, I am so sick of hearing about the woman.

  19. TG says:

    Overfeeding a baby deliberately is cruel and selfish. Can’t believe she admitted to being such a selfish brat. Wonder what she is going to do when her daughter compains about her stupid name.

  20. Atticus says:

    Kids do cry all the time, and it’s freaking annoying when they’re doing it, as Alba said, for no reason. I see nothing wrong with discouraging unnecessary whining.

    I can’t believe I’m defending her. I can’t stand her. She does have that haughty way about her, and then there was that whole bizarre graffiti episode.

  21. Missfit says:

    Well regardless if she would have over fed her on purpose or not…pediatricians have said that as the baby gets older, the more they grow more of an appetite and want to naturally eat more, and ALSO will sleep longer periods of times. When the baby is asking for more food, you feed them more. Even as newborns, if they are not satisfied, they are still sucking for more and on their little hands, cause they are still hungry, that’s how it is. Honor looks fine and healthy to me…and no, I don’t think the time outs are even that bad, the way she’s doing it. She’s not wooping her ass or anything geeze, she’s just teaching her early right from wrong and it sounds like that is one SMART little girl indeed to understand so well at all of what her mommy says and tells her.

  22. Tazina says:

    I like her. I always enjoy seeing photos of her out and about with Honor, and watching the little one get bigger. I also like seeing the cute outfits Honor is wearing. Honor certainly doesn’t seem chubby now. She’s slimmed right down and looks great, actually much cuter now than when she was a baby.

  23. KateNonymous says:

    I have a four-month-old, and when she’s done eating, she is DONE! I’m not sure how I could “overfeed” her if I wanted to. I guess Honor was different at that age. Or Jessica is misusing the word “overfeed.”

    Whatever. Honor was a cute baby then, and she’s a cute little girl now.

  24. susanne says:

    I think Miseralba should get a time out every time she wears that bitchface. She’s rich, famous, and beautiful- what’s there to pout about? Time Out! Take it like a champ!

    She sounds like a control freak of a mother. Hoping the best for little Honor.

    Wasn’t there some question of paternity? I don’t think there’s any doubt- I see lots of cash in her face.

  25. Tiffany says:

    Good lord, that kid looks just like her father.

  26. Moore says:

    Yeah, I think its cause you don’t like her. I see nothing wrong with what she said.

    I wouldn’t comment on lindsey either. Who knows what she’s doing on her own time, but why talk about someone else’s issues on tv? Thats rude.

    As far as the overfeeding, she could just be talking about dream feeding. No big deal. It’s done everywhere and it doesn’t seem nearly as harmful. The baby sleeps at 7, get them while later and feed them again before they get up wailing on their own and they’ll stay asleep longer.

    I love chubby babies too and have no problem calling them that. It’s more endearment not insult and at six months, I would call her baby chubby too.

  27. margie says:

    I am going to catch hell for this but I completely understand her overfeeding statement, and think she maybe stated it too simply and people are taking it the wrong way. I don’t know how many of you have *recently* had babies, but my son is 14 months. After 6 months of sleep deprivation, I was ready to snap. I still get nauseated thinking about how awful the sleep deprivation is. I found that if he got plenty of food during the day and a big bottle for his night time bottle, he did not wake up as much or at all. It isn’t selfish or abusive- part of being a good mother is also having the ability to be present and attentive during the day for your child, and that requires some level of sleep.

  28. KateNonymous says:

    Thank you, @margie (#27)! Babies do better with sane mommies and daddies. And who knows what Alba meant by “overfeeding” anyhow?

  29. hzl says:

    My 3 month old eats and eats and eats (breastfeeding) in the evening — then she sleeps for an amazing 7-8 hours. If that is overfeeding then I am guilty as charged! And I have been bragging to everyone who will listen about how chubby she is.

  30. locagirl says:

    Ugh. WHY is she famous? She sucks.

  31. locagirl says:

    ps – aren’t babies SUPPOSED to be cute and chubby???

  32. original kate says:

    oh god, the woman is not abusing her baby, nor is she giving her body dysmorphic disorder. please.

  33. alexandra says:

    Finally a parent who speaks the truth!..Kids should be taught to control their emotions. People forget that those cute crying babies will become adults with tantrum issues.

  34. Jennifer says:

    Oh Lord. Tons of babies are chubby little and grow up into healthy young women and men.

    My best friend/practically sister was a very, -very- chubby baby and is a size-4 now, post-baby.

    There’s a difference between a healthy baby and an obese one, Alba should learn it.

  35. irl says:

    oh boy, is that chick dumb. I never paid much attention to her before. I knew she was an awful actress but I never heard her speak. Geez, hopefully that kid will grow up knowing her mom is an idiot and won’t listen to her much. Hoepfully the kid does have a nanny – it would be a better influence then a stupid woman with body issues.

  36. Camille says:

    Man, that kid looks just like her father. Poor thing. She probably would have made a cute boy though. And yeah, can’t stand JA either Celebitchy.

  37. tooey says:

    I think forcing a child to eat when she’s not hungry just because “it’s time” is an ideal way to put her on the path to obesity. Learn to ignore your body and focus on disconnected, external cues.

  38. Shy says:

    Gosh… I never saw Alba that happy. She can actually smile and look exited and happy. Who would have thought. And Lindsay… Who still think that she can have a career… When stars are EMBARRASSED to even talk about her 🙂 I don’t blame Jessica. The “I don’t feel comfortable to talk about it” is the perfect answer she could ever give. It’s not her business. She doesn’t have discuss or defend Lohan.

  39. Majosha says:

    KateNonymous: I was wondering the same thing about “overfeeding” a baby. Both of my sons ate when they were hungry, and didn’t when they weren’t. I mean, short of forcing the milk down his or her throat, I don’t understand how one could overfeed an infant.

  40. Dhavy says:

    She’s so annoying

  41. DetRiotgirl says:

    Ugh, the zipper on the back of that dress… It looks like something a 14 year old would buy at Rainbow. So tacky.

  42. Confuzzle says:

    That kid’s got a serious monobrow happening.

  43. Lila says:

    Ay I feel bad for that little girl when she gets old enough to read. Babies are supposed to be chubby! Jeez, people with body issues should be more careful in discussing what their children look like.

  44. bloobloo says:

    I totally agree with kaiser, its justa vibe, but I CANNOT imagine Jessica coping if Honor became the “fat kid”. She has spent her whole life distancing herself from her fat relatives, it would kill her if Honor was less than slim.

  45. CB Rawks says:

    Is that giant necklace actually a change-maker, from her days on the ho stroll? 😉

    I like that she takes the baby all over the place and doesn’t rely on nannies.

  46. Aspen says:

    I taught my daughter in toddlerhood to calm herself down from tantrums, too.

    Crying about everything…EVERYTHING…is something that children with certain personality types just do. In order to help them become strong people who can care about and accommodate the needs of others, the parents must teach this type of child to control her own emotional responses.

    That’s what we did.

    It’s not abusive. /eye roll. It’s called parenting.

  47. scorpiogal says:

    Seaking as a mom of a 4-year-old: time-outs are NOT abusive…they’re designed to give a child the much-needed time to calm down and get a handle on their emotions. It’s part of socialization! I’m sorry, but I’m not about to sit there and punish myself by watching my daughter have a temper tantrum over nothing. She can do it in her room where there’s no audience to cater to. She gets an explanation beforehand and hugs and cuddles afterwards. And by the way, parent’s needs DO count, even in the early days. Obviously you put your child before yourself, but they’re not meant to come into the world and completely take over. That’s how stressed-out parents are created, and they are much more likely to become the abusive ones. Rant over!