History Creator / JessicaAlba

In 2008, Alba married Cash Warren, with whom she has two daughters, Honor and Haven, and a son, Hayes. In recent years, she's devoted more time to motherhood than acting, starting a retail brand called The Honest Company (specializing in non-toxic household products) and authoring ''The Honest Life'', a book about this lifestyle. The company became highly successful, and Alba's net worth is [[http://www.forbes.com/profile/jessica-alba/ estimated to be $340 million]].

* JustForFun/OneOfUs: [[invoked]] Jessica Alba's a fan of Creator/JamesCameron's work, ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and hip-hop dancing. See her Instagram and [=TikTok=] for proof.

* IAmNotLeonardNimoy: No matter what she acts in, many people think it's just Jessica being sexy.
* IAmNotSpock: Diehard Marvel fans expect her to be invisible in non-Fantastic Four movies.

* Gasshole: She won the Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards for best burp, and boasted about her belching talents in an interview.

* ''Film/{{Awake}}'' (2007) as Sam Lockwood

** In a ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' book, there's a fish named Jessica [[{{Pun}} Albacore]]. Funny enough, she's a fan of the cartoon.

Many of these roles feature Alba playing a MsFanservice type to some extent, which helped cement her status as one of the most attractive celebrities of her day to many fans and magazines alike. However, she has publicly commented that when she was starting out in her career, she preferred not to use her sex appeal to get advantages and had fears of being [[TypeCasting typecast]] in "whore" parts. She also made it a point to have a personal code about never appearing in the nude, which she upholds to this day.

[[http://twitter.com/jessicaalba She also tweets pretty often.]]

Alba started her acting career as a teenager in the 1990s, playing in a few independent films, making a few appearances on ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack,'' and doing a couple seasons of the revived ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' series. Her lead role in ''Series/DarkAngel'' (which she won by being picked by Creator/JamesCameron from over 1000 candidates) made for her [[StarMakingRole breakthrough]], and she would go on to achieve worldwide recognition with various film roles throughout the 2000s -- including the title role of ''Film/{{Honey}}'', a stripper in ''Film/SinCity', and Invisible Woman in ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' and ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer''.

** You don't like the second season of ''Series/DarkAngel''? She doesn't ''either'', bashing it in the commentary for the season one finale.

* [[IAmNotLeonardNimoy I Am Not Jessica Alba]]: No matter what she acts in, many people think it's just Jessica being sexy.
* [[IAmNotSpock I Am Not Sue Storm]]: Diehard Marvel fans expect her to be invisible in non-Fantastic Four movies.
* MsFanservice: [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl Her personal code against nudity notwithstanding]], directors can't seem to resist having at least one scantily-dressed/suggested-nude scene in any film she does, regardless of whether it makes sense or not. She was apparently nude in two movies, but ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' used body doubles and her ShowerScene in ''Film/{{Machete}}'' involved [[DigitalBikini digitally removed underwear]].

** In an interview with the British magazine ''Arena'' promoting ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' she bad-mouthed two of her pre-''Series/DarkAngel'' movies, ''Film/Paranoid2000'' and ''The Sleeping Dictionary'' - ''and'' her performances in them.
** She would state that she thought ''Film/GoodLuckChuck'' was borderline pornographic, ''Film/TheKillerInsideMe'' was gratuitously violent (she's stated she doesn't want her daughters to see it, and with good reason), and, much later, would admit that she hated working on the ''Film/FantasticFourDuology'' movies so much that she almost quit acting.

** She was in a relationship with co-star Creator/MichaelWeatherly during ''Dark Angel'', they were even engaged for a while but they ultimately ended the relationship in 2003. She has heavily hinted in interviews through the years that she lost her virginity to him.

* StarDerailingRole: ''Film/TheLoveGuru'' dealt a fatal blow to her already declining big-screen career, not helped by the lukewarm responses to ''Film/{{Machete}}'' and ''Film/SpyKidsAllTheTimeInTheWorld''. ''Film/SinCityADameToKillFor'' bombing at the box office was the last nail on her major movie career. In 2019 she returned to series on television[[note]]or streaming television if you're in the US due to it being made for Crackle[[/note]] in the ''Film/BadBoys1995'' spinoff - ''Series/LAsFinest'' playing Nancy [=McKenna=] (the partner of the sequel's Syd Burnett). [[MeaningfulName Syd and Nancy]] Fortunately her billion dollar household goods company was taking off around this time, giving her a net worth around $300 million, so don't worry, [[EarnYourHappyEnding she's doing just fine]].
* StarMakingRole: ''Film/FantasticFour2005'' and ''Film/SinCity'' consolidated her in film, after ''Series/DarkAngel'' had brought her to a lot of people's attention on TV ([[TestosteroneBrigade especially the male variety]]).

!Selected Filmography

* ''Film/TheSleepingDictionary'' (2003) Selima

Many of these roles feature Alba playing a MsFanservice-type to some extent, which helped cement her status as one of the most attractive celebrities of her day to many fans and magazines alike. However, she has publicly commented that when she was starting out in her career, she preferred not to use her sex appeal to get advantages and had fears of being [[TypeCasting typecast]] in "whore" parts. She also made it a point to have a personal code about never appearing in the nude, which she upholds to this day.

Many of these roles feature Alba playing a MsFanservice-type to some extent, which helped cement her status as one of the most attractive celebrities of her day to many fans and magazines alike. However, she has publicly commented that when she was starting out in her career, she preferred not to use her sex appeal to get advantages and had fears of being [[TypeCasting typecast]] in "whore" parts. She also made it a point to have a personal code about never appearing in the nude, which she still upholds to this day.

Alba started her acting career as a teenager in the 1990s, playing in a few independent films, making a few appearances on ''Series/TheSecretWorldOfAlexMack,'' and doing a couple of seasons of the revived ''Series/{{Flipper}}'' series. Then she grew up and starred in ''Series/DarkAngel''. ''Then'' she played a [[MsFanservice stripper]] in ''Film/SinCity'', and Invisible Woman in ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', and wore a bikini in ''Film/IntoTheBlue'', all of which cemented her MsFanservice status onscreen. Nonetheless, she has a personal code about never appearing in the nude. [[ReluctantFanserviceGirl At least not completely.]]

In 2008 she married Cash Warren, with whom she has two daughters, Honor and Haven, and a son, Hayes. (Yes, [[ThemeNaming all of their names start with H]].) In recent years she's devoted more time to motherhood than acting, starting a retail brand called The Honest Company (specializing in non-toxic household products) and authoring ''The Honest Life'', a book about this lifestyle. The company became highly successful, and Alba's net worth is [[http://www.forbes.com/profile/jessica-alba/ estimated to be $340 million]].

In 2008 she married Cash Warren, with whom she has two daughters, Honor and Haven, and a son, Hayes. (Yes, [[ThemeNaming all of their names start with H]].) In recent years she's devoted more time to motherhood than acting, starting a retail brand called The Honest Company (specializing in non-toxic household products) and authoring ''The Honest Life'', a book about this lifestyle. The company became highly successful, and Alba's net worth's [[http://www.forbes.com/profile/jessica-alba/ estimated to be $340 million]].