Raised in a military family, Jessica Alba grew up in Mississippi, Texas, and California. She took her first acting lessons at 11, and soon burst out as a gifted actress. "I got a woman's figure when I was 12, and it was intense. All of a sudden, you're viewed as a sex object."
Within months, Alba had an agent, and soon she was featured prominently in commercials for JC Penny and Nintendo. At 13, she was hired for a tiny role in Disney's
Camp Nowhere with
Peter Scolari and
Christopher Lloyd, but her big break came when a girl with a larger role backed out after filming had begun. Alba had similar hair, so recasting her in the more prominent role required few re-shoots.
She quickly landed a recurring role on Nickelodeon's
The Secret World of Alex Mack, and at 14, she did a schlocky but sexy direct-to-video film with
Morgan Fairchild called
Venus Rising. On her second TV series, she wore bikinis in the mid-1990s re-do of
Flipper. Alba's acting was not much to look at, but Alba was. She says she received the role on account of her swimming ability.
At 15, she was the pregnant teen in an abysmal Afterschool Special,
Too Soon for Jeff with
Freddie Prinze, Jr.. She was more lifelike as one of the high school kids in
Never Been Kissed with
Drew Barrymore, and as the object of
Devon Sawa's affections in
Idle Hands.
In
James Cameron's
Dark Angel, she pouted, kicked ass, and did some genuine acting as the "genetically enhanced" Max Guevara for two enjoyable years. She has since starred on the big screen as a boinkable Sarawak tribal translator in
The Sleeping Dictionary, as a hip-hop dancer in
Honey, and as a stripper in
Sin City. In
Fantastic Four, she was the invisible woman, Susan Storm.
"I remember this one guy -- oh, he really liked me. He was so boring that I ordered a hamburger and ate it in a really masculine way, like a pig, dripping and chewing with my mouth open. I think I may have burped... anything to get him not to like me so the date would finally be over."
Alba is 5'7" tall with a 35" bust, and many men would probably be happy to buy her a hamburger if they could watch her eat it.
January 8th, 2006
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