Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress, model and businesswoman.
She has won various awards for her acting, including the Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and aGolden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel
Alba began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack (1994). She rose to prominence as the lead actress in the James Cameron television seriesDark Angel (2000–2002) when she was 19 years old.
Alba later appeared in Honey (2003), Sin City (2005), Fantastic Four (2005), Into the Blue (2005), Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) and Good Luck Chuck (2007)
Alba has been called a sex symbol, and was nominated number one on AskMen.com’s list of “99 Most Desirable Women” in 2006, and “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM in 2007. She appears on the “Hot 100” section of Maxim. In 2005.
In January 2012, Alba co-founded The Honest Company, a consumer goods company that sells non-toxic household products, and owns between 15-20 percent of the company.
Alba’s early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies. During childhood, she suffered from partially collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia four to five times a year, as well as a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cyst. Alba became isolated from other children at school, because she was in the hospital so often due to her illnesses that no one knew her well enough to befriend her. Alba has also had asthma since she was a child.
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