Jessica Alba and her five week old baby, Honor, appear on the cover of this week’s OK! Magazine. In the accompanying interview Alba talks about her birth experience, calling it “zen,” and says she didn’t scream and was calm the whole time. She also calls her baby a “miracle” and talks of her in spiritual terms, saying it’s like “she’s connected to the other world.” That’s poetic and I wouldn’t expect to hear that from her. Alba has started gradually exercising to shed the baby weight, and says she’s “doing it slow” and trying to eat healthy.

“I didn’t scream,” Jessica tells OK! in an exclusive interview and photoshoot. “It was really Zen.” And Cash could only marvel at his wife’s quiet strength when she gave birth. “She didn’t make a sound,” he says. “It was amazing.”

Here, the proud pair open their door exclusively to OK!, introducing the adorable Honor Marie Warren.

“It hasn’t totally sunk in,” Jessica reveals to OK!. “She dreams, she smiles, and coos and does all these things, but she hasn’t seen enough of the world yet to understand any of that stuff. So I still feel like she’s connected to the other world, or something. There’s no other way to explain it. It’s a miracle.”

The Love Guru star tells OK! that she had natural birth. “The labor was more like meditation,” she says. “I did yoga breathing. I was focused.”

Jessica, who tells OK! she ate “a lot of soul food” in the weeks following Honor’s birth, says she’s just now starting to shed the pregnancy pounds.

“I started working out last Thursday, but for 20 minutes. I do cardio on my own. I’m doing it slow,” she says. “Now I’m starting to eat more healthy. Because after working out, having fried chicken and mashed potatoes is a little counteractive.”

So who does Honor look more like?

“She looks like a girl version of me,” Cash says. “She has my nose, my eyebrows and my…”

“Forehead and dimples,” Jessica finishes, adding, “She has my mouth when I was a baby. And my ears.”

“Maybe Honor is a mixture,” Cash reconsiders. “I want her to look like me, because a daughter looking like Jessica, I’d kill myself!”

[From OK! Magazine]

That’s cute that Cash says he’d be upset if their daughter is too beautiful. He doesn’t have a lot of say in the matter, and their baby sure is cute.

In Touch reports this week that Alba is working hard to lose weight so that she can be fit for a second larger wedding celebration with Cash. Jessica has reportedly lost 15 pounds but wants to get slimmer before they have a big party. The two were married in late May at the Beverly Hills courthouse and they didn’t even release a photo. Alba was said to have been reluctant to sell her baby’s first public pictures, but was eventually convinced by OK!, which reportedly paid $1.5 million for the photoshoot and another set of photos of one of Honor’s holidays. I hope it’s Halloween and they dress her up all cute.