Jessica Alba is still promoting her book, The Honest Life, which promotes living green and provides instructions on how to achieve toxin-free (except for chain smoking, that is) household methods, which seem to be slightly less luxurious lifestyle tips than Gwyneth Paltrow tends to hand out to the peasants. Alba seems to be taking great care to distance her brand from that of haughty Goop, and it’s sort of working because recipes for homemade baby food are definitely more accessible than instructing one’s readers (in the case of Goop) to only use $52 wrapping paper or purchase $90 white t-shirts that are flimsier than what I bought at Target today.

I’ll admit that Alba’s starting to win me over just a bit with her new Honest branding, but maybe that’s just because I’d rather hear her talk about this stuff than how it’s so hard to be sexy in Hollywood. Although I do still find it ridiculous that Alba’s giving tips about how to easily prep an adult dinner party while one’s children are in the bath, but whatever. Now Alba’s talked to People about how she won’t judge you if you don’t follow all of her tips, especially the ones on parenting:

On parental judging: “When you become a mom, the last thing you want to do is feel judged because everybody is trying to do the best they can. My girlfriend who is co-sleeping with her kids and may or may not be breastfeeding her 3-year-old shouldn’t hide that. She should be fine with that, and she shouldn’t feel judged. And then my friend who never even attempted really to breastfeed because it was too exhausting for her … she shouldn’t feel like she’s a bad mom.”

Stay-at-home vs. working moms: “I have friends who literally are better parents when they are going to work every day for long days and they have weekend time or night time with their kids. I have other friends who cannot even imagine leaving their child for one second and need to be attached literally at the hip, and that is fine as well.”

She doesn’t hesitate to take Honor out of school: “I feel like I have friends who can’t take their kids out of school [because] they’re so into school attendance that that is their number one priority. For me, I’m my kids’ happiness. Once my daughter gets old enough … if we still are continuing to travel this much, I’ll bring the tutor and she’ll learn. It’s more important for me to spend time with her than to not.”

Her family’s diet: “We don’t look at kale or broccoli or squash as healthy. That’s just what they eat. I try to give them whole foods and whole grains as much as humanly possible. I just feel like they will thrive on that. Will they go to dinner with the family to a chain restaurant? Sure we do!”

Indulgences do exist for her kids: “If they’re going to have a dessert, I like to make a dessert with Honor. We’ll make little cupcakes and that will be what they have two or three times a week and then the rest of it will be fruit or applesauce. They’re such little spazzes when they have too much refined sugar and flour. You know? They’re mental.”

[From People]

Once again, I’ll draw a parallel here between Alba and Gwyneth, who has lamented the fact that mothers judge other mothers (all while being judgy of other mothers while sanctimoniously Gooping about motherhood). I get what Alba’s saying here. Unless children are in danger or being neglected (as in the obvious case of Octomom), I don’t think that non-parents should judge parents (we’ve all heard people say, “When I have a kid, they won’t do _____ or act like ____”), and I don’t think parents should judge each other because they should just worry about their own parenting skills. Yet none of us are perfect people in the parenting department, and we will all still judge each other, and that includes Alba. No matter what she’s saying here, I know damn well she’d judge me for letting my kid play with plastic toys.

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