Jessica has always known that she wanted to pursue a career in acting, and she actually made this choice at the early age of five. At 11, the actress attended her first acting competition, winning the grand prize and taking her first acting lessons. Only nine months later, she was already considered to be a talent, so Jessica singed her first acting contract. After making her debut in Camp Nowhere, the actress was featured in a number of commercials, too, with every new appearance the star showing that she can really act well, achieving impressive stage performances. There is no wonder that in 1998, Jessica was offered a new deal, being cast in Brooklyn South. The actress starred in the first season of this famous television series. The next year, the actress got a role in P.U.N.K.S. Worldwide fame and the great Hollywood success came in 1999, when Jessica released Never Been Kissed. The same year she was featured in Idle Hands. She had leading roles in both of these movies and her performances have definitely impressed.

Still, the big break for Jessica Alba came in 2002 when she was cast in Dark Angel. For this part, the star has actually been nominated for a Golden Globe. In 2006, Jessica got a part in Sin City, this new role bringing the star also an award for the Sexiest Performance, at the MTV Movie Awards. Fantastic Four and Into the Blue are other movies in which the actress starred and which brought her more fame and recognition, all around the world. The actress is nowadays much appreciated for all her amazing performances, having millions of fans all around the world.

The main reason for which Jessica Alba decided to leave the Catholic church was due to the fact that she felt misunderstood by the community she was involved in. In addition to this, she spoked several times about the things that were not satisfying to her beliefs in relation to the creeds and the rules of the Catholic church. The major issue which Jessica Alba presented about this fact was that in her teenage years older men would find her appealing and would try to engage in romantic contacts with her. She spoked to her youth pastor about the issue and was told that these reactions came form the fact that she was to provocative in appearance. The result for the young Jessica Alba was that she became ashamed of her body and of being a woman.

Later on, the impact of the way in which she grew in the church made her realize what was going on. Jessica Alba also considered that the views of the Catholic church on premarital sex and on homosexuality were too rough, as this was a personal choice of each member of the community. In addition to this, she realized that the members of her community started to judge her wrongly after she began her career in the entertainment industry. Therefore, Jessica Alba decided to take her religion beliefs out of the Catholic church and to maintain them for her own personal time and through her very own decisions.

For instance, few people know that Jessica Alba had a very difficult childhood, as she suffered from numerous physical maladies, including collapsed lungs, pneumonia, ruptured appendix, and tonsillar cyst. This was the reason why she become isolated from her school colleagues. Well, this, and the facts that she and her family moved a lot due to her father’s Air Force career. However, this did not held her back, and Jessica Alba graduated high school at age 16. Besides having asthma since childhood, Jessica Alba had a kidney infection in 2001, which resulted in her becoming anorexic that same year. She has even stated that she started to prepare her own meals since she was a child, because her family’s eating habits were causing her weight problems.

Luckily, Jessica Alba managed to get past all the problems. She is now considered to be one of the most gorgeous women on this planet. She was even ranked as one of the sexiest and most beautiful women in the world for many years, and by numerous publications worldwide, including FHM, Maxim, People Magazine, Stuff, Empire Magazine, and many others. Despite her numerous appearances in men-dedicated magazines, Jessica Alba confessed that she is very modest and that she would never pose nude in a magazine, not even topless, nor she would do a nude scene in a movie. Now that’s a role model!

Her childhood was a little complicated because of the health problems she had to overcome such as pneumonia, OCD and appendix. Even if these health problems made her way towards an acting career more difficult, Jessica Alba did not give up and continued acting in other films. Sin City, The Love Guru, Valentine’s Day, Fantastic Four and Honey were one of the films that launched her career and so, she became more known to the public. Jessica Alba is also known for her beauty and appeared on the cover of many important magazines such as FHM, People, which voted her as one of the most beautiful women in the world. In 2006, Jessica Alba posed for Playboy magazine, but she was not satisfied with the photos because she looked as if she were naked, which it did not happened.

Meanwhile, Jessica Alba has a happy personal life, too. She is married and and two girls. During her career, the actress received several awards, but she was also criticised for a few of them, which were not so great. Some say that she is so successful only due to her beauty and sexy look, but has not talent or not  enough. One thing is sure though: Jessica Alba has lots of fans, both men and women, and even teenagers think she is their role model and so appreciate the actress very much. They wait to see which will be her next roles and are very curious who she will portray this time.

The films and television productions Jessica Alba has appeared in have been highly successful. Due to her amazing acting skills and great performances, she managed to receive several important nominations, as well as to win some valuable trophies. These awards have only stated even more that Jessica Alba is a talented actress. In 2001, Jessica Alba received her first important award. She won the category for Breakthrough Actress of the Year, at the ALMA Award. After this trophy, she won an even more promising award, in 2005, that of the Superstar of Tomorrow, at the Young Hollywood Awards. In 2007, Jessica Alba received one nomination for the Little Screen / Big Screen Star (Women) category, at the TV Land Awards, and one award for the Hottest Jessica, at the Spike TV Guys’ Choice Awards. The following year, two nominations came her way, from People’s Choice Awards, for the categories Favourite Female Action Star and Favourite Leading Lady. In 2011, the ALMA Awards honored Jessica Alba with the trophy for Favourite Movie Actress – Drama / Adventure, for her part in the film Machete.

This amazing, beautiful and talented actress made a big statement of her skills so far in Hollywood, through numerous roles in highly appreciated productions. Jessica Alba is constantly improving since her first parts, making it even more obvious that she is to be a respected name of the entertainment industry and still has a lot more to show to the public. Her fans are waiting for future productions and awards.

For AIDS charity Amfar, Jessica Alba offered her free acting skills in order to convince Bob Weinstein to donate 100,000 dollars for children to receive tennis lessons. This move made the event extremely popular and gathered much more money than expected, due to her good will and persuasion. Jessica Alba is concerned with children in Africa as well, as she participated and organized many charitable events to ensure educational means, through the 1Goal movement. Another campaign that caught Jessica Alba and that made a stir in the public media world was the Declare Yourself campaign. This one focused on encouraging young people to vote and express their opinions without constrictions. The adds featured Jessica Alba tied with black tape as a symbol of oppression and limited speech rights. The campaign was highly criticized as being too rough, but the message was successfully delivered. Other campaigns and charities in which Jessica Alba has participated are: Project HOME, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, Soles4Souls, SOS Children Villages, Step Up, RADD, Habitat for Humanity, Clothes Off Our Back and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Her main focus has always been to donate as much as she could to these causes and to attract people with power and money in the entertainment industry to do just the same.

Jessica Alba has participated in many charitable events and still is; focusing on helping underprivileged children in third world countries as her main beneficiaries, but not the only ones. She has held events and contributed to other charities in order to make people understand that there are many others that need help and that are not fortunate. 

Behind all the fame and the wonderful things that happened during her life, Jessica Alba was very ill when she was a child. Pneumonia and lungs collapse were one of the things that put her life in danger, but fortunately, she managed to get over. Besides her acting career, Jessica Alba became a sex symbol. She received the  Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and for her role in “Dark Angel” she received the Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. Perhaps any people do not know, but Jessica Alba acted in science fiction films that also represented a very important part for her developing career. One of the science fiction films she acted was called “The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”.

In 2008, Jessica Alba married Cash Warren and they have a baby girl. The actress is involved in charity work for children. Although she is very famous, especially for her beauty, Jessica Alba was also criticized for the way she acted and received a Razzie Award for The Worst Actress. As she is a beauty and a sex symbol, Jessica Alba appeared in many commercials and advertising campaigns. Her fame is due to her acting career, but developed due to her beauty and to her appearance in several magazines. She is always an interesting subject for the media and her fans are very interested in her personal life, too.

More, the roles she had in science fiction films contributed to her international fame. Another element that catapulted Jessica Alba in the spotlight and in the fame was her beauty that was appreciated by so many categories of people. She appeared in FHM and Playboy magazine. Jessica Alba is one of the most desired women from all the world and in 2007 she was considered “The Sexiest Woman in The Word”. She was awarded for the roles for television productions. The movies in which Jessica Alba appeared are Into the Blue, Good Luck Chuck, Never Been Kissed and many more. Jessica Alba was fascinated of acting since she was only five.

Jessica Alba has done charity, trying to help the cause of children, especially. The actress is married to Cash Warren since 2008 and they have a baby girl born in the same year. After graduating high school, Jessica began to study at The Atlantic Theater Company. She is considered to be one of the most beautiful women on earth and she has a lot of fans all around the world. She is also very appreciated at Hollywood. There are also opinions saying that she is not such a talented actress, receiving a Razzie Award for The Worst Actress regarding her performances in several films. However, she also received awards for her talent in acting. Jessica appeared in several commercials, as she is already a strong beauty symbol.

Not many know it but as a child, Alba suffered from several physical illnesses including a collapsed lung twice, pneumonia, asthma, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Besides taking the film industry by storm, Jessica Alba has also become known as quite a sex symbol, generating an enormous amount of media attention everywhere she goes. In the popular men’s magazine Maxim, Jessica is often features in the “Hot 100″ section. In fact, in 2001 she was ranked #1. In the year 2006, Alba made it onto AskMen.com’s list of “99 Most Desirable Women.”

What’s more, the following year she was named “Sexiest Woman in the World” by FHM. Jessica Alba has been recognized for her many accomplishments with various awards in both film and television. She took home a Choice Actress Teen Choice Award and a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television. Additionally she received a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the Dark Angel television series.

Her first movie was Camp Nowhere in 1994 when she played the role of Gail. Next up was Venus Rising in 1995 as young Eve at which point she disappeared until 1999. 1999 saw P.U.N.K.S., Never Been Kissed and Idle Hands. Paranoid came next in 2000 and in 2003 The Sleeping Dictionary and Honey. In 2005 she had roles in Sin City, Into the Blue and the Fantastic Four with several acting award nominations.

After a two year reprieve there was Good Luck Chuck, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Awake, Knocked Up and The Ten. 2008 brought The Eye, Meet Bill and The Love Guru. Finally, in 2010, she was Machete, The Killer Inside Me, Valentine’s Day, Little Fockers and An Invisible Sign. This leaves many people wondering what she will be working on for 2011 and 2012 as they sit by and enjoy the other twenty-four films that she has been able to make in just sixteen years.