Jessica Alba
Alba didn’t have a great childhood; she suffered collapsed lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, a burst appendix, and a cyst on her tonsils. Jessica has been found saying that she was separated from the other children because no one knew who she was, she was in hospital more often than she was at school.
Jessica Alba’s first movie appearance was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere, she was later featured in several independent films. She branched out into TV in 1994 with a recurring role as Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. She then performed the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the TV series Flipper.
Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa. Jessica Alba’s rise to stardom began with when she was selected from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of the genetically-engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara in the series Dark Angel. Co-created by Cameron, the series starred Alba, and ran for two seasons before being canceled in 2002. Since then her most notable roles have been as an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City, Paul Walker’s love interest in Into the Blue as a scuba diving enthusiast/treasure hunter (FYI, Jessica Alba is a PADI-certified scuba diver)and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four.
In 2006, readers of Askmen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women,while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their Top 100, after Lindsay Lohan. Both GQ and In Style magazines had Alba on their June covers,and in May, after eight million votes, FHM named Alba the winner as 2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World.
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.”
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.