Jessica Alba: 'Hypnobirthing isn't weird'

Jessica Alba has insisted that undergoing hypnobirthing isn't "weird".

The actress told People earlier this week that she relied on the method when giving birth to her 2-year-old daughter Honor and found that it "prepares you" for labour.

During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Alba, who is currently expecting her second child with husband Cash Warren, was asked to explain a little more about the process to those who might not be familiar.

"It's not like the clock in front of your face and you go out and you wake up and you got a baby. Basically my husband takes me through sort of a meditation," she said.

"He'll say, 'You're relaxed, and you're floating on clouds' while you're going through labour and your contractions. I'm just concentrating on breathing and staying relaxed because it's when you get tense that [it] makes the whole labour worse and more painful. That's all it is. It's not like a weird thing."

Alba recently revealed that she has been consumed by intense food cravings during her second pregnancy.