<mediadc-video-embed data-state="{"cms.site.owner":{"_ref":"00000161-3486-d333-a9e9-76c6fbf30000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b93390000"},"cms.content.publishDate":1656624650913,"cms.content.publishUser":{"_ref":"0000017a-bf0a-d0ae-abff-bf4b55780000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"cms.content.updateDate":1656624650913,"cms.content.updateUser":{"_ref":"0000017a-bf0a-d0ae-abff-bf4b55780000","_type":"00000161-3461-dd66-ab67-fd6b933a0007"},"rawHtml":"
var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ "div": "Brid_56594749", "obj": {"id":"27789","width":"16","height":"9","video":"1041132"} }); ","_id":"00000181-b686-d447-ad8b-f6c60bd60000","_type":"2f5a8339-a89a-3738-9cd2-3ddf0c8da574"}”>Video EmbedAlexa PenaVega, best known for her role in the Spy Kids franchise, opened up about her relationship with God and how it inspired her to leave Hollywood for a “heart reset.”
PenaVega, 33, shared her story in an interview published Wednesday promoting her newly released memoir What if Love is the Point? Living for Jesus in a Self-Consumed World.
Her husband and fellow actor, Carlos PenaVega, was struggling with his career when the couple decided to move their family to Hawaii, PenaVega said.
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“We’d always talked about moving to Hawaii, but later on in life, like a retirement plan. But we also knew that we didn’t want to raise our kids in Los Angeles,” she said.
“I felt this tug in my heart. I felt it was God going, ‘You guys need to get out of here. It’s time.’ I didn’t want to move. I knew it was the right decision, but it wasn’t something that I was so excited about.”
At first, PenaVega believed they had moved solely for her husband, but she soon realized that God had been preparing her for the move, she said.
“We were moving for my heart. It stopped me in my tracks because all that time, I thought we were just moving for Carlos. But I needed a heart reset. I was the one trapped in the entertainment world and needed to take a step back. My job became my identity,” she said.
“God pulled me out of that so I could learn how to be an awesome mom and an awesome wife. God helped us build that foundation in our family.”
PenaVega said she has no regrets about moving and said Hawaii is an incredible place to raise children.
“The Maui culture is about family, about community. I think that’s something that was getting lost when we were living in Los Angeles,” she said.
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“For us, we wanted to get out of that because we were ready to be part of a community that shared our faith. And we found that in Hawaii.”
