Jessica Alba wants the world to know her body after baby secret. And this is something we can ALL attain. Love that!

“I wore a girdle,” the actress, 28, tells the March issue of Elle. “Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist – any kind of band or girdle works.”

(Brooke Burke is also a girdle fan. She swears by a post-pregnancy belly wrap, and even designed her own line called Tauts.)

Jessica Alba confesses that she tried working out after having Honor to get in shape for a calendar shoot, but quickly gave it up.

“[The workouts] were horrible,” she tells the magazine. “I cried. And I haven’t worked out since.”

We love that about her!

C’mon, moms, confess: Do you wear shapewear or a girdle?

ELLE.com has just posted the new cover with Jessica Alba. In the spread, she poses with several up and coming designers, including Joseph Altazurra (pictured), Rad Hourani, Frank Tell, Julian Louie and Jason Wu. She discusses her all new life, motherhood
and her desire to be considered a serious actress. I would love if you could run this, linking back to more of the Jessica Alba interview on ELLE.com.

-On giving birth: “Contractions aren’t that bad. If you’ve ever had bad cramps? That’s what they’re like. But that moment when they put the baby
on your chest – that’s deep. It’s a deep experience.”

-On snapping back into shape so quickly after giving birth: “I did it for the Campari job. [The workouts] were horrible. I cried. And I haven’t worked out since.”

-Her secret to looking slim after giving birth: “I wore a girdle. Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist – any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, “I slept in it.” I didn’t recover as fast as she did. I don’t have a six-pack – that’s just not my body at all.”

-On having an exotic look: “Anyone who’s part of pop culture is going to be sensationalized and spun into something, some one-liner. Also, there aren’t many other stars, besides Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez, who most people in the world can related to. We look like people of the world – I can kind of mix in with girls in Asia, South America, Europe.”