Jessica Alba reveals the moment she and Cash Warren decided to elope when she was nine months pregnant as she joins Gabrielle Union on The Late Late Show
Jessica Alba detailed the moment that she and Cash Warren decided to elope back in May 2008, when she was nine months pregnant.
The actress, 38, said: 'I remember I looked over at him and we were in bed, and I was like, “Do you have any meetings this morning?”’ she recalled. ‘And he was like, “I don’t think so.’ And I was like, ‘Should we get married?’ And he was like, ‘Ok.’”
When Corden teased Jessica about asking Warren whether he’d had meetings that day, she said: ‘I just didn’t want to be rushed through my Nate ‘n Al’s crispy bacon drowned-in-butter pancake situation,’ explaining that she had desperately craved food from the Beverly Hills deli that morning.
Truth: Jessica Alba (right) detailed the moment she and Cash Warren eloped when she was nine months pregnant as she joined Gabrielle Union on The Late Late Show on Tuesday
She said: 'I remember I looked over at him and we were in bed, and I was like, “Do you have any meetings this morning?”’ she recalled. ‘And he was like, “I don’t think so.’ And I was like, ‘Should we get married?’ And he was like, ‘Ok.’”
Jessica appeared on the show alongside Gabrielle Union, who she stars with on the new Spectrum show The LA’s Finest.
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Jessica also revealed that when her parents Cash now 40, they asked: ‘Does he really know who you really are? Because you’re kind of difficult.’ ‘I was like, “Oh my gosh, Dad.”’
However, it doesn't seem to have mattered as the couple celebrated their 11 year anniversary on Monday.
Awkward: Jessica also revealed that when her parents Cash now 40, they asked: ‘Does he really know who you really are?'
Jessica took to Instagram to pen: '#Us #11yearsmarried my @cash_warren, my best friend, my everything- we are better together...
'The life we dreamt of and manifested together is beyond anything I could have imagined. I love you with my whole self... we got this #rideordie por vida #happyanniversary'.
Jessica and Cash, 40, first crossed paths while filming the Fantastic Four in 2004 and they married four years later in Los Angeles.
Sweet: Jessica took to Instagram to praise her beloved producer husband as they marked 11 years as a married couple
Family: Jessica shares three children Honor, Haven and 17-month-old Hayes with Cash, 40
Beloved: Jessica took to Instagram to pen: '#Us #11yearsmarried my @cash_warren, my best friend, my everything- we are better together'
She went on: 'The life we dreamt of and manifested together is beyond anything I could have imagined. I love you with my whole self... we got this #rideordie por vida #happyanniversary'
Meanwhile, Gabrielle gave a little insight into her own husband, Dwayne Wade, a former point guard for the Miami Heat, who retired from the NBA in April.
Suddenly finding himself with an excess of free time, he'd been spending his days investigating 'new' things like car washes and Old Navy, which he had never had time to experience before.
Even a trip to the store was filled with wonder, Union, 46, marveled. ‘He has no idea what milk costs,' she said. ‘He’s like, “What is that, $20?” I’m like, “What kind of goat’s blood milk are you [drinking]?”
‘It’s like he’s been in a coma,’ said host James Corden. ‘What sort of exciting things have you got planned for him coming up?’
Funny: Meanwhile, Gabrielle gave a little insight into her own husband, Dwayne Wade, a former point guard for the Miami Heat, who retired from the NBA in April
Poking fun: Gabrielle said Dwayne (pictured) had been spending his days investigating 'new' things like car washes and Old Navy, because he had more time than ever following his retirement
‘We’ve got an amazing trip planned to the veterinarian,’ Union said, laughing. She explained that Wade had never been to the vet despite having five dogs, and even asked her if there was a VIP area.
Corden wondered if Wade had won over Union’s parents when they considered marriage.
‘I had been married before—spoiler alert!’ Union admitted. ‘I had to write some checks after that one, so my dad was watching the wallet. He was like, “What do you want with her?
'"You know, she’s got her own life, she’s got her own house, she’s got her own stuff… what are you bringing to the table?"’
She told James: ‘I had been married before—spoiler alert. I had to write some checks after that one, so my dad was watching the wallet. He was like, “What do you want with her?"'
‘And [Dwyane] was like, ‘Have you Googled me, sir? Three championships? I do okay. I’ve got dental…’
Union’s father allowed Wade into the family on the condition that he become a fan of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, a college football team. Union said they haven’t missed a home opener yet.
Alba soon found out that her new husband, like her father, was ‘competitive.' She said the two of them had once bet on every hole of a golf game. On the last hole, an all-or-nothing, her dad hit the ball into the forest, then went after it, returning with his khakis covered in a brown substance.
So funny: Union and Alba told Corden that they are longtime friends who bonded over their love of tequila years ago
‘As he got closer, we smelled that he had actually slipped in bear s**t,’ Alba remembered. ‘But he won the hole and he didn’t lose a stroke.’
Union and Alba told Corden that they are longtime friends who bonded over their love of tequila years ago. While filming their new show, a spinoff of the movie Bad Boys, they spend their breaks shooting music videos, with moves taught to them by their makeup artist, a former Janet Jackson dancer.
They showed Corden some of their dancing, rolling their bodies in sync like video stars.
Union mentioned that she had just come back from a trip to see Jackson’s new concert residency in Vegas. The new mom said it wasn’t the party she might have expected in earlier days.
‘Me and Queen Latifah, we split a jet, we’re like, “Let’s go to Vegas, let’s see Janet, let’s do the choreography—we were there, you know, “Pleasure Principle,”’ Union said, citing Jackson’s 1986 hit. ‘And they were like, “Let’s keep the party going,” and we were like, “Ooh. My back hurts.”’
‘I’ve never left Vegas early,’ she confessed. ‘I went home to my baby.’
Gorgeous: Jessica looked incredible as she walked on the set wearing a stunning leopard print midi dress
She still said she was the half of the duo most likely to be arrested.
‘Good girl’ Alba had been working since she was young.
‘They don’t call it a job,’ she explained of her first gig.
‘They’re like, ‘This is what you do because you’re the oldest of 13 cousins and you need to babysit them, and they need to eat, so we’re going to give you $20 and you can order a Little Caesar’s [pizza].'
'Whatever was left over was my money, which was messed up,' she said. 'I was like, “I’m gonna work for myself, because this is some BS.”’
Alba remembered having to dress up in a clown costume at age 11 to help her uncle sell real estate in ‘very hot’ Riverside, CA, for which she earned just $20.
During one gig, she ate Funyuns and drank cactus coolers until she threw up.
‘Was that why you called your company the Honest Company, because your early days were just built on a web of lies?’ Corden asked.
‘Yes! Basically,’ Alba said, laughing.
Bandleader Reggie Watts was given the last question of the day.
‘If you had to choose between someone who was compassionate, someone who was empathic, and someone who was a lot of fun, which one would you choose?’ he asked both women.
‘A lot of fun,’ they said in unison.
Good times: The girls showed James their dance moves as he also had a go at getting stuck in
