Jessica Alba said being married to Cash Warren was like being “roommates.”
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren
(Photo by Michael Tran/AFP via Getty Images)Months before she reported her separation from her husband Cash Warren, Jessica Alba said she and Warren “became roommates.”
Alba, 43, opened up about her marriage in a candid conversation with podcaster Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt in April 2024.
“It’s all rosy for 2.5 years, but then you guys become roommates,” Alba revealed on Schwarzenegger’s “BDA Baby” podcast. “And it’s just like you’re roommates. You just go through the motion. It’s the responsibility. It’s a lot of, like, checking off the boxes.”
TMZ reported on Wednesday, January 8, that Alba and Warren, 45, recently split preparing to file for divorce. We weekly has reached out to their representatives for comment.
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren have spoken out about their efforts to keep the spark alive in their relationship while raising three children. The couple met while working on 2004’s Fantastic Four, in which Alba starred as Susan Storm and Warren was a production assistant. After being in a relationship for almost four years, the duo tied the knot […]
The couple met on the set of The Fantastic Four in 2004, where Alba was the lead actress and Warren a production assistant. Four years later they tied the knot.
During their vows in 2008, so was Alba nine months pregnant with their daughter Honor, now 16. The couple then welcomed daughter Haven, 13, and son, Hayes, 6.
When Schwarzenegger asked Pratt, 35, how Alba could find balance amid her heavy responsibilities — and make “your husband feel cared for” — Alba grimaced.
“If you’ve discovered it in your relationship, let me know,” she joked, adding, “You know, I think [Warren] probably gets the short end of the stick. … It’s hard. It’s impossible.”
Jessica Alba has shared a rare glimpse into her family life to celebrate the holidays. The actress, 43, took to social media on Thursday, December 26, to share a series of photos via Instagram of her husband, Cash Warren, 45, and their three children, daughters Honor, 16, and Haven, 13, and son Hayes . 6. “Happy […]
Alba said she and Warren had previously tried to schedule regular date nights where “we don’t have our phones and we just talk. But then that stopped, because of whatever, and so we’re just not consistent.”
She advised Schwarzenegger Pratt listeners that it was important “to communicate when you’re unhappy and suppress it right away instead of letting it fester a little bit — and then you get hostility and then it explodes.”
Alba also noted that she and Warren had “gone through that,” having been together for so long, and joked that “he basically stole my 20s and 30s.”
“We obviously have the friendship and the comfort of ‘You’re not going anywhere,’” she added. “And so sometimes you don’t treat those people the best, right? You don’t consider their feelings the way you would consider the feelings of others. So that’s something that I think is a constant – it’s a constant to work on.”
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren have long bragged about their three shared children, sharing adorable updates and sweet family insights. The couple’s eldest daughter, Honor, arrived a month after their wedding in May 2008, followed by Haven in August 2011. Alba later gave birth to son Hayes in December 2017. The actress dubbed her youngest “the […]
She said married couples should avoid discussing topics such as children’s schedules when they are alone.
“That date night, or that time, is the time when you really shouldn’t talk about the annoying things that you talk about during the week. It’s the time to move past that and check in in a different way. But it’s hard. It’s really difficult.”
