Jessica Alba

**Jessica Marie Alba** (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress and model. Alba made her first movie, *Camp Nowhere*, at age 13 and in the television drama series *Dark Angel* (2000–2002). Alba later acted in several movies, such as *Honey* (2003), *Sin City* (2005) and *Good Luck Chuck* (2007). Alba has won several awards for her acting. These awards include the "Choice Actress" award at the Teen Choice Award and a Saturn Award. Both of these awards were for her acting in the series *Dark Angel*.

She started her business, The Honest Company, in 2011. the company sells baby, personal and household products.

She has been listed in the "Hot 100" section of *Maxim* magazine every year from 2003 to 2007, and she was voted " Woman in the World" by *FHM* in 2007. In March 2007, a picture of her was used on the cover of *Playboy*. *Playboy* did not ask her if they could use the picture or tell her they were going to use it. This caused a lawsuit that was later dropped.

## Early life 
Alba was born in Pomona, California. Her mother, Catherine, is of Danish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, German and French Canadian ancestry and her father, Mark, is Mexican American, and is of Indigenous Mexican, Sephardic Jewish, Spanish and Mayan ancestry. Alba was also diagnosed with predominantly hyperactive ADHD as a child, for which has been taking Ritalin ever since and has also said that she has obsessive-compulsive disorder.  She graduated from high school when she was 16 years old. After high school, she went to the Atlantic Theater Company.

## Career 
Alba wanted to act since she was five. She took her first acting class at age twelve. An acting agent signed her nine months later. Her first movie work was a small role in the 1994 movie *Camp Nowhere*. At first, she was only hired for two weeks but ended up working for two months because another actress dropped out. Alba was then Maya in the television series *Flipper*.

In 1998, she acted in *Brooklyn South*, in two episodes of *Beverly Hills, 90210* and in an episode of *The Love Boat: The Next Wave*. After Alba graduated from high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company.

She became more famous in Hollywood in 1999 after acting in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy *Never Been Kissed*, and as the main female character in the 1999 comedy-horror movie *Idle Hands*. When she trained to be in *Dark Angel*, Alba had to exercise very much and she starved herself. She said "A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did too. I got obsessed with it." She also had obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks. She said she has been cooking for herself since the age of twelve so she would not become as fat as her family members.

Some of Alba's most famous movie roles are a dancer in *Sin City* and as Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the *Fantastic Four*. She also acted in *Into the Blue* in 2005 and *Good Luck Chuck* a few years later. In 2008, Alba played her first horror-movie role in *The Eye*, a remake of the Hong Kong original. Later in the year, she starred in *The Love Guru*.

In 2010, Alba appeared in five movies including *Little Fockers* and *The Killer Inside Me*. The following year she appeared in *Spy Kids 4*,  a sequel to *Spy Kids*.

## Public image 
In 2007, *Maxim Magazine* listed Alba as number 2 in their "Top 100", after Lindsay Lohan. In May, after eight million votes, *FHM* (UK and US editions) named Alba the winner as "2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World". She received the Teen Choice Award for *Choice Actress* and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV) for her role in *Dark Angel*, along with a Golden Globe nomination. In 2006, she received an MTV Movie Award for "Sexiest Performance" for *Sin City*.

Some people have said Alba's acting was bad. She was nominated for a 2007 Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her work in *Awake*, *Good Luck Chuck*, and *Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer*.

On the cover of the March 2006 issue, *Playboy* magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities and the "Sex Star of the Year". She took *Playboy* to court for using a picture of her without her . However, she later dropped the lawsuit when she got a personal apology from *Playboy* owner Hugh Hefner. He agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba supports. When she was a teenager she became a born-again Christian. However, she left the church after four years because she believed that she was being judged by the way she looked. She has said that she still believes in God even though she is not a member of the church. Alba has not performed naked. She was given the option to appear nude in *Sin City* by the movie's directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez. She said no to the offer saying, "I don't do nudity. I just don't. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won't get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety".

While filming *Dark Angel*, Alba began a romance with another member of the cast, Michael Weatherly. This caused controversy because he was 12 years older than she was. They eventually broke up after a four-year relationship. When talking about children, she said, "I'm really girly when it comes to kids. I've been surrounded by children my whole life because I'm the oldest of 15 cousins - I've been changing (nappies) since I was six... I want to have a couple, for sure.". Alba is a Democrat and attended the 2012 Democratic National Convention in support of President Obama's re-election.

Alba married Cash Warren on May 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. She met him while making *Fantastic Four* in 2004. They have three children together, Honor Marie (born 2008), Haven Garner (2011) and Hayes (born 2017). She also does some charity work, including clothes charity *Clothes Off Our Back* and women's charity ''Step Up Women's Network''.

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