Jessica Alba is due to give birth at the end of summer, but you could hardly tell just by looking at her today..

The 30-year-old covered up her baby bump with a high-waisted skirt as she conducted a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Using her star power for a good cause, she was discussing keeping American safe from dangerous chemicals.

Jessica dressed conservatively chic for the formal occasion in her pretty black lace high-waisted skirt, a cream blouse and matching blazer.

She accessorised the demure look with some cream platform sandals and some pearl earrings, and wore her hair in out in a neat bob.

Wearing minimal make-up, the Fantastic Four star certainly had the pregnant glow about her with her beautiful bronzed skin radiating.

Jessica is asking to improve the safety of consumer products and increase public awareness about product quality.

The actress is currently a spokeswoman for the Safer Chemicals and the Healthy Families coalition.

A devoted mother to her two-year-old toddler Honor, she was said to become aware about the issue four years ago, when she discovered that toxic plastics were used to make some baby products.

Jessica will also meet with various politicians on Wednesday to ask for their support.

Before her visit to Capitol Hill she wrote on the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families website last week.

Our federal system is broken, and we need your help to fix it. It's time to ask Congress for common-sense limits on toxic chemicals, and I'm asking you to join me in this fight.

'We need a steady drumbeat of American moms telling Congress to fight for the safety of your family.'

- Mail Online

Jessica Alba made her way to The Griddle in West Hollywood Sunday morning for a fun breakfast date with hubby Cash Warren and their adorable 2-year-old tot, Honor. Sporting her lovely baby bump, the expectant mama was all smiles as the trio strolled together, holding hands.

Sweetheart Honor also got to ride high with daddy for part of their excursion – doesn't she look just like him? Such cuties!

Recently, Jessica opened up about her plans for the birth of her second child, including her love of hypnobirthing!

"I highly recommend it," says the 30-year-old actress. "It just makes you chill."

Jessica, who celebrated her third wedding anniversary with Cash on May 19, first announced her pregnancy on Facebook.

- Celebrity Baby Scoop

A pregnant Jessica Alba took her daughter Honor Warren out to a park in L.A. on Saturday and ran into celebrity pals Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart with their 1-year-old daughter Billie Dane, making way for a fun play date!

Eric, 38, and Rebecca helped Billie on the swings, while Jessica and Honor enjoyed some downtime on a the grass before hitting the sandbox.

- OK! Magazine

It's a girls day out for Honor Marie Warren and Hollywood mommy Jessica Alba!

With one at her side and one on the way, Jessica is the perfect picture of parenthood. However, motherhood does come with a set of challenges. On today's Ellen show, the actress shared that her little girl likes to dress up in high heels. However, the only available shoes in her size are plastic, so she won't let her wear them out of the house. She explained why, saying:

"Only certain kinds of girls wear plastic shoes."

Natch, Honor is too young to understand what this means, exactly, eliciting laughter from the audience. Alba next appears as - guess what? - an expectant mom in Spy Kids 4.

Though Jessica still isn't sure if she’s having a son or daughter, she does have her birth plan in place. The actress will be doing something called HypnoBirthing. She explained, "It's basically my husband [Cash Warren] takes me through sort of a meditation. So he's like saying, you're relaxed and you're floating on clouds while you're going through labor and your contractions. He just sort does a guided mediation. I'm just concentrating on breathing and staying relaxed because it's when you get tense that makes the whole labor worse and more painful. That's all it is. It's not like a weird thing."

- Celebuzz

Jessica Alba is proving more and more that she could be the ultimate woman. The pregnant actress is not only hot, but she's a good cook. The Fantastic Four star takes her skills in the kitchen so seriously, she enrolled in culinary classes at the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts.

A source tells Star magazine, "She figured it would be fun and informative. She's actually a good cook."

Alba started cooking for herself at a young age, so obviously she isn't afraid when things get too hot in the kitchen. "Everyone in my family is heavily overweight. I wanted to be healthier, so I started cooking for myself when I was 12 years old."

She's evolved to cooking from herself to her entire family. Last December, she prepared the entire Christmas dinner for her family.

"#MerryChristmasEve tweeples. Presents wrapped now onto Xmas din shopping. Who else is cooking an organic X-Mas din? What's on ur menu?" she tweeted to her fans.

But there is one skill the top chef has yet to master.

The insider added that her next round of classes could prove to be a challenge. "Her next class will be for baking - it's the one thing she isn't good at."

- ActressArchive

Jessica Alba makes men drool. We all know that. But imagine if you actually dated her? Like, in real life?

Well, this guy did-even took her to prom-and 13 years later, he's still thinking about her. Of course he is.

So what's the deal?

Chris Lakkees, now a vice president at a health company in Huntington Beach, Calif., dated the Fantastic Four hottie for a full five years, when they were teens and before Alba shot to fame.

But, as any man would imagine, Alba's not an easy woman to get over and Lakkees certainly hasn't, still pondering over how the two could have made it work as a couple.

So he's created a website that's inspired by their relationship.

Lakkees tells E! News the idea for the site, dedicated to his first love, sprung from wishing someone could have mediated his and Alba's breakup to at least preserve a friendship.

"We were kids when we dated. I'm a grown man now, but the idea was always in my head that if there was a place where you could go to have someone mediate, that would make a great difference in so many people's lives," he says.

The site, relationshipcourt, is a free social networking page where people act as jurors who vote on sides and dish out advice to couples having arguments. Lakkees compares it to a group therapy session.

And if you win the argument? You get a gift from the loser.

Lakkees says although he hasn't spoken with Alba in ages, he still thinks of her and to no surprise, some recent girlfriends have gotten jealous that he actually gets to say he once dated the star.

"I met her at 14, we stopped talking when we were 19," he tells us. "We weren't always together. She was [away] shooting."

He gave Alba, who was homeschooled, a genuine high school experience when he took her to his prom at his all-boys school.

"We met when we ended up being in the same acting class," he says. "That's how it all started. We hit it off."

And, not surprisingly, he says he was "crazy" over her, saying he loved her with all his heart.

"I told her I wanted her and me to be together forever," he said, but now wishes he could have the married and pregnant mom as a pal.

We're sure he'll take her any way he can get her.

- E! Online

Jessica Alba has some unique advice for other expectant moms.

The 30-year-old actress recommends "hypnobirthing classes" -- which are increasingly popular among pregnant women. Hypnobirthing involves the use of hypnosis during childbirth.

"It's different for everyone, although I do recommend the hypnobirthing classes," Alba told Us Weekly on Monday at the RIMOWA store opening in Beverly Hills. "I highly recommend it. It just makes you chill."

The actress wasn't quite so "chill" before the birth of daughter Honor Marie, 2: "I was freaked out going into it my first time going into labor. Like what if I panic? What if I just freak out and I don't know what to do?"

So is the second pregnancy easier for Alba? "Oh yeah! But a little bit harder on the body because my daughter still wants to be picked up. Ever since my belly popped, she really is on me!"

- UsMagazine.com

An expectant Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren took their adorable daughter Honor, 3 next month, to Coldwater Canyon Park in Beverly Hills on Sunday (May 15). The family-of-three enjoyed the California sun at the popular playground to the stars.

It was a Hollywood playdate! Honor and Billie Beatrice Dane were spotted side-by-side on the swings.

Jess and Honor recently returned home after relaxing girls' getaway in Mexico where we spotted the actress baring her bump in a bikini.

- Celebrity Baby Scoop