Jessica AlbaJessica Alba has revealed she hated having to lose weight after giving birth to baby daughter Honor last June.

The Fantastic Four actress showed off a thinner physique just a few months after giving birth to the little girl, her first child, but she told Elle magazine recently that it was difficult: “[The workouts] were horrible. I cried. And I haven’t worked out since.

“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.

“I didn’t recover as fast as she did. I don’t have a six-pack - that’s just not my body at all.”

She added that she found the struggle back into shape and life as a new mum harder than the birth itself: “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.”