“I always think it’s good for your kids to see you practicing what you preach — it’s the best lessons they can ever learn,” Alba said.
While she’s a much-requested speaker, sharing her stories of rejection and the years-long struggle to find investors before she took her $1.44 billion company public last May, she has admitted: “I’ve found that you can talk to kids until you’re blue in the face (believe me, I’ve done that), but having them actually see you doing the work is much more powerful. “
Ultimately, she continued, she hopes that the decade of relentless effort that has seen her work days, nights and weekends, in addition to remembering how she struggled to survive paycheck to paycheck in her early acting years, will demonstrate to her children that they, too, can forge their own path in what they see fit.
“I want my kids to believe they can achieve anything they want and I believe that’s what I show them through my work,” Alba explained. “By teaching them through my own experience, although it’s certainly not always easy, they can see that anything is possible.”