Jessica Marie Alba

Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba was born in Pomona, Californiat ( April 28, 1981) to Catherine (née Jensen) and Mark Alba. Jessica Alba mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is Mexican American. Jessica Marie Alba has a younger brother, Joshua. Her father’s Air Force career took the family to Biloxi, Mississippi and Del Rio, Texas, before settling back in California when Jessica Alba was nine years old.Alba described her family as being a “very conservative family — a traditional, Catholic, Latin American family” and herself as very liberal; she says she had identified herself as a “feminist” as early as age five.

Alba’s early life was marked by a multitude of physical maladies. During childhood, Jessica Marie Alba suffered from collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 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. Alba has said that her family’s frequent moving also contributed to her isolation from her peers. She has acknowledged that she has suffered from obsessive–compulsive disorder during her childhood.Alba graduated from high school at age 16, and Jessica Marie Alba subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.

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Religion

Jessica Alba

Alba was raised as a Catholic throughout her teenage years, 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. “Her “religious devotion [began] to wane” at the age of 15 when she guest-starred as a teenager with gonorrhea in the throat in a 1996 episode of the television series Chicago Hope. Her friends at church reacted negatively to her role, making her lose faith in the church.However, she has stated that she still holds her belief in God despite leaving the church.

married

Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while making Fantastic Four in 2004. Alba married Warren in Los Angeles on Monday, May 19, 2008. On June 7, 2008, Alba gave birth to a baby girl, Honor Marie Warren, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.The first pictures of Honor Marie appeared in OK! magazine, which paid a reported $1.5 million for them.  Alba has said that she would like to have more children.On February 16, 2011, Alba confirmed that she and Warren are expecting their second child.