Alexa PenaVega is pulling back the curtain on her life between the sheets.
The Spy Kids alum opened up about sex in her marriage with Carlos PenaVega.
"I would enjoy it but it wasn't this thing I craved all the time. And he's a man so he's like ‘I want you to want me,'" she shared on the Feb. 13 episode of the Heaven In Your Home podcast. "I started trying to own the sex part of our marriage a bit more and really work on that."
Reflecting on nurturing the intimate part of their relationship, Alexa compared sex to working out.
"This is going to sound terrible," the 34-year-old warned, "but you know how you don't necessarily want to go to the gym at the beginning, but once you start going you're like ‘I have to go every day, this is great. I feel good, my body feels good.'"
As for what pushed her to become more in tune with sex, Alexa shared her motivation got put into motion when Carlos said something that struck a chord with her.
"I knew I had to do this for him and it all started with one comment he made," the mom of Ocean, 6, Kingston, 3 and Rio, 21 months, recalled. "I knew this is kinda when we were in trouble and I didn't think we had any issues In our marriage but he said, ‘I just keep praying to God that he'll take away my hunger for sex.'"
"My poor husband, he's literally asking God to take that urge away from him," she said, noting she went to the bathroom and cried. "Like, why am I not there on his level? It hurt my heart."
Though it was hard to hear, being honest with one another is important to their 9-year marriage.
"Communication is super key," Alexa previously shared on E! News' Daily Pop in 2020. "When we're working, we're full-on working. But when we're home…It's just us. It's our family. We focus on each other and we take time with each other."