Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress, whose TV and film credits include Dark Angel, Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the Blue, Idle Hands and 2007’s Good Luck Chuck. Alba rose to prominence following the television series Dark Angel, then expanding her resume to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy.

Alba appears frequently on the “Hot 100″ section of Maxim, and was voted AskMen.com’s No. 1 on their list of “99 Most Desirable Women” in 2006, as well as “Sexiest Woman in the World” in FHM in 2007.

One of the crop of bright-eyed, dewy-skinned young actors to attain teen idoldom and a regular paycheck during the late 1990s, Jessica Alba closed out the century as one of Hollywood’s more promising new talents. Jessica Alba is smokin’. Whether she was kicking butt as Max on Dark Angel or kicking it to hip-hop as Honey in the movie of the same name, Jessica has the body, booty and beauty to make us want to be her slaves.

She is known for her roles in movies such as Idle Hands, and her starring role in the TV series Dark Angel. She got her first starring movie role in Honey, and went on to appear in prominent roles in Sin City and Fantastic Four, She was gorgeous as a dark-haired angel, and she’s even sexier with her honey-colored hair and tanned skin as a pole dancer in Sin City.

Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and Sex Star of the Year in its March 2006 issue, on whose cover she appeared. Alba is currently involved in a litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (which was a promotional shot for Into the Blue) without her consent, and making it seem she appears in the issue in a “nude or semi-nude pictorial.”

Since then her most notable roles have been as an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four.

Jessica went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code. Alba’s pending projects include The Eye (a remake of the Hong Kong original) and Sisters, alongside Eliska Amor and Paz Vega.

During preparation for Dark Angel, in which Alba trained for three hours every day, the actress began to starve herself and became obsessed with exercise, going on to say, “A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did too. I got obsessed with it.” Alba recalls coming to a realization that she had a problem when she dropped to just 100 lbs and cites her natural introduction to puberty and her development of womanly curves as two things that caused her “concern” regarding her aesthetics. Alba, who also suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks, says she has been cooking for herself since the age of twelve, in fear she will end up as fat as her family members.

Alba has revealed that she envisions a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. “I have this thing for older men. They’ve been around and know so much.” Alba has been linked with director’s assistant Cash Warren.

Regarding children, Alba said, “I’m really girly when it comes to kids. I’ve been surrounded by kids my whole life because I’m the oldest of 15 cousins — I’ve been changing diapers since I was six. I want to have a couple, for sure”.

She has a tattoo of a daisy with a ladybug on the back of her neck, the Sanskrit symbol for the lotus flower, padma, on her wrist, and a lower back tattoo of a bow.

Alba was raised Catholic and still considers herself “spiritual”. In her adolescence, she became a born-again Christian, but left the church after four years because she felt she was being judged for her appearance, explaining:

“ Older men would hit on me, and my youth pastor said it was because I was wearing provocative clothing, when I wasn’t. It just made me feel like if I was in any way desirable to the opposite sex that it was my fault, and it made me ashamed of my body and being a woman. ”
Alba also had objections to the church’s condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and the lack of strong female role models in the Bible, explaining:

“ I thought it was a nice guide, but it certainly wasn’t how I was going to live my life.”
As the daughter of conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had been open to the possibility of appearing nude in Sin City. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily clad, “They didn’t want me to wear the granny panties, but I said, ‘If I’m gonna be topless I need to wear granny panties’ “.

Alba was given the option to appear nude by the film’s directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, but declined 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”.
Of her mixed heritage, and perceptions of her ethnicity, Alba has said:

“ I’ve got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out. My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my grandmother didn’t speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose. My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, … So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don’t speak Spanish. So, to say that I’m a Latin actress, OK, but it’s not fitting; it would be insincere. My grandfather was the only one in our family to go to college. He made a choice not to speak Spanish in the house. He didn’t want his kids to be different. [Before] I always felt like such an outcast and now I feel like people are more diverse ethnically. I was always [self-conscious] of my puffy lips and darker skin when I was a kid, because I felt like I didn’t fit in. And now its mainstream, and color isn’t as big of a deal and if anything, it’s better.

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