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Top 10 Hottest Mexican Women on the Planet
2) Jessica Alba
Jessica
Marie Alba was born on 28th April 1981. She is an American television and film
actress and model. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in
Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the
lead actress in the television series Dark Angel (2000�2002). Alba later
appeared in various films, including Honey, Sin City, Fantastic Four, Into the
Blue, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and Good Luck Chuck both in
2007.
Alba has been called a sex symbol. She appears on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim
and was voted number one on AskMen.com's list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in
2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. In 2005, TV Guide
ranked her # 45 on its "50 Sexiest Stars of All Time" list. The use of her image
on the cover of the March 2006 Playboy sparked a lawsuit by her, which was later
dropped. She has also won various awards for her acting, including the Choice
Actress Teen Choice Award and Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television, and a
Golden Globe nomination for her lead role in the television series Dark Angel.
Alba was born in Pomona, California, to Catherine (n�e Jensen) and Mark Alba.
Her mother is of Danish and French Canadian descent and her father is of Mexican
ancestry. She 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
Claremont, California, when she 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, 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. 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 Claremont High School at age 16, and she
subsequently attended the Atlantic Theater Company.
Alba expressed interest in acting since the age of five. In 1992, the
11-year-old Alba persuaded her mother to take her to an acting competition in
Beverly Hills, whose grand prize was free acting classes. Alba won the grand
prize, and took her first acting lessons. An agent signed Alba nine months
later. Her first appearance on film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp
Nowhere as Gail. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into
a two-month job when one of the prominent actresses dropped out.
Alba appeared in two national television commercials for Nintendo and J.C.
Penney as a child. She was later featured in several independent films. She
branched out into television in 1994 with a recurring role as the vain 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
television series Flipper. Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba
learned to swim before she could walk, and she was a PADI-certified scuba diver,
skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia.
In 1998, she appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the Steven
Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills,
90210, and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999, she
appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S. After Alba graduated from
high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity
Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director, David Mamet.
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.Her big break came when writer/director James Cameron picked
Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of the genetically engineered
super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the Fox sci-fi television series Dark Angel.
Co-created by Cameron, the series starred Alba, and ran for two seasons until
2002, earning her critical acclaim as well as a Golden Globe nomination. Alba
later admitted to suffering from anorexia while in preparation for Dark Angel.
Alba has been well received in popular culture. She received the Teen Choice
Award for Choice Actress and Saturn Award for Best Actress for her role in Dark
Angel. In 2006, Alba received an MTV Movie Award for "Sexiest Performance" for
Sin City. Her acting has also drawn criticism, however, as she was nominated for
a 2007 Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her performances in Awake, Good Luck
Chuck, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. She was also nominated for
the same award in 2005 for her performances in Fantastic Four and Into the Blue.
Alba's most notable film roles have included an aspiring dancer-choreographer in
Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City, and as the Marvel Comics
character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four. She then appeared in
its sequel, in Into the Blue later that year, and Good Luck Chuck a few years
later. Alba hosted the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the
movies King Kong, Mission: Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code. In February
2008, she hosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Science and
Technical Awards. Alba has been represented by talent agents Patrick Whitesell
and Brad Cafarelli.
In 2008, Alba made her acting transition to the horror-film genre in The Eye, a
remake of the Hong Kong original. The film was released on February 1, 2008.
Though the film was not well received by critics, Alba's performance itself
received mixed reviews. Alba won a Teen Choice for Choice Movie Actress:
Horror/Thriller and a Razzie Award for Worst Actress-nomination. Also in 2008,
Alba starred alongside Mike Myers and Justin Timberlake in "box office bomb" The
Love Guru. Alba was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress.
In late 2008, Alba signed on to star as the lead role in An Invisible Sign of My
Own. The movie finished filming in November 2008. It premiered at the Hamptons
International Film Festival and was released to theaters in May 2011.
In 2010, Alba starred in five films. She played Joyce Lakeland, a prostitute in
The Killer Inside Me, film adaption of the book of the same name which
co-starred Kate Hudson and Casey Affleck. The film premiered at the Sundance
Film Festival. Her second film of the year was the hit romantic comedy
Valentine's Day, directed by Garry Marshall. She portrayed Ashton Kutcher's
girlfriend, Morley Clarkson, in the ensemble film that included Julia Roberts,
Anne Hathaway, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, and Jennifer Garner, among others.
It was released on February 12, 2010.Later in the year, she appeared in action
film Machete, in An Invisible Sign of My Own and in Little Fockers, reuniting
with Robert De Niro who was also in Machete.
In August 2010, it was announced that Alba would appear in Spy Kids 4. The film
was released a year later. In January 2012, Alba and business partner Chris
Gavigan launched The Honest Company, a collection of toxin-free household goods,
diapers, and body care products. In March 2012, Alba announced that she will be
releasing a book, The Honest Life, based on her experiences creating a natural,
non-toxic life for her family. The book, slated for release in early 2013, will
be published by Rodale.
Her next projects include comedy A.C.O.D. and animated film Escape from Planet
Earth. Alba will also reprise her role as Santana in Machete's sequel Machete
Kills and as Nancy Callahan in Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, sequel to 2005's
Sin City. Filming for Sin City started in October 2012 with a release date set
for August 2014.
In 2001, Alba was ranked No. 1 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list. She said that
"I have to go to certain lengths to use sexuality to my advantage, while guiding
people to thinking the way I want them to." In 2005, Alba was named one of
People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People, and also appeared in the magazine's
100 Most Beautiful list in 2007. In 2002, Alba was voted as the fifth Sexiest
Female Star for 2002 in a Hollywood.com poll, No.4 in the Top 10 Sci-Fi Babes,
No.6 in FHM's Sexiest Girls for their poll, and ranked at No.12 in Stuff
magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" 2002 edition. In 2005, Alba was
ranked at No.5 on the Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list.
On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25
Sexiest Celebrities, and the Sex Star of the Year. Alba was involved in
litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (from a promotional shot for
Into the Blue) without her consent, which she contends gave the appearance that
she was featured in the issue in a "nude pictorial". However, she later dropped
the lawsuit after receiving a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner,
who agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba has supported.
When reports surfaced that a 21-year-old Chinese girl was seeking plastic
surgery to resemble Alba in order to win back an ex-boyfriend, the star spoke
out against the perceived need to change one's appearance for love.
In 2006, Alba ranked No.3 on E! Television's 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies. 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". Both
GQ and In Style had Alba on their June 2008 covers, and in May, after eight
million votes, FHM (UK and USA editions) named Alba the winner as "2007's
Sexiest Woman in the World". Alba has been regarded as one of the world's most
attractive women, being named to Maxim's Hot 100 in 2008. In 2007, Alba was
ranked in at No.1 in FHM's Sexiest Girls of 2007 poll, in the magazine's Latvian
edition. Alba was ranked No.4 on Empire Magazine's 100 Sexiest Movie Stars in
2007. In 2006 and 2007, Alba was voted No.1 as the most sexy woman in the world
by the Norwegian FHM.
Alba appeared in the 2009 Campari calendar. Campari printed 9,999 copies of the
calendar featuring photos of Alba posing sexually in swimsuits, and high heels.
In 2008, Alba was ranked No.34 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 list, was ranked No.2
on Wizard magazine's "Sexiest Women of TV" list, and was named in GQ Magazine
one of the 25 Sexiest Women in film of all time. Alba is the only woman who has
made the Maxim Magazine Hot 100 list in all the years it was published; from
2000 to 2013. She appeared on Maxim's 2013 Hot 100 list, finishing 17. She was
named one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time" by Men's Health. People named
her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age.
Alba fears being typecast as a sex kitten based on the bulk of parts offered to
her, commenting, "Somehow, I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman."
In the interview, Alba said she wants to be taken seriously as an actress but
believes she needs to do movies that she would otherwise not be interested in to
build her career, stating that eventually she hopes to be more selective in her
film projects. Alba also maintains a strict no-nudity clause in her contract.
She was given the option to appear nude in Sin City 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". 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." In March
2010, she reasserted her position to Scarlet magazine, saying, "I can act sexy
and wear sexy clothes but I can�t go naked." For the shower scene in Machete,
she was wearing underwear, which was digitally removed afterwards.
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 what she saw as a 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.
While filming Dark Angel in January 2000, Alba began a three-year relationship
with her co-star Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their
12-year age difference.Weatherly proposed to Alba on her twentieth birthday,
which she accepted. In August 2003, Alba and Weatherly announced that they'd
ended their relationship. In July 2007, Alba spoke out about the breakup, saying
"I don't know why I got engaged. I was a virgin. He was 12 years older than me.
I thought he knew better. My parents weren't happy. They're really religious.
They believe God wouldn't allow the Bible to be written if it wasn't what they
are supposed to believe. I'm completely different." Alba had at one time said
she envisioned a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to
Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. She said, "I
have this thing for older men. They've been around and know so much."
Alba met Cash Warren, son of actor Michael Warren, while filming Fantastic Four
in 2004. Alba married Warren in Los Angeles in May 2008. They have two
daughters: Honor Marie Warren (born 2008) and Haven Garner Warren (born 2011).
The first pictures of Honor Marie appeared in the July 2008 issue of OK!
magazine, which reportedly paid $1.5 million.
In 2005, Alba offered her acting talents for free, to raise money for AIDS
charity Amfar at the Cannes Film Festival. The Industry had held a benefit for
the US research foundation. Alba had caused "the greatest stir" by promising to
star as an unpaid actress in one of The Lord of the Rings producer Bob
Weinstein's movies, if Weinstein agreed to bid $100,000 for tennis lessons with
sports stars Monica Seles and Boris Becker.
Alba's charity work includes participation with Clothes Off Our Back, Habitat
for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Project HOME,
RADD, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages, Soles4Souls, and Step
up. Alba openly endorsed and supported Democratic presidential hopeful Barack
Obama during the 2008 primary season. Alba is an ambassador for the 1Goal
movement to provide education to children in Africa.
Alba posed for a bondage-themed print advertising campaign by Declare Yourself,
a campaign encouraging voter registration among youth for the 2008 United States
presidential election. The ads photographed by Mark Liddell, which feature Alba
wrapped in and gagged with black tape, drew national media attention. The ads
were described by some as being "Shocking". Alba said of doing the
advertisements that "it didn't freak me out at all." Alba also said "I think it
is important for young people to be aware of the need we have in this country to
get them more active politically," and "People respond to things that are
shocking."
In June 2009, while filming The Killer Inside Me in Oklahoma City, Alba was
involved in a controversy with residents when she pasted posters of sharks
around town. Alba said that she was trying to bring attention to the diminishing
population of great white sharks. Media outlets speculated that Alba would be
pursued and charged with vandalism. On June 16, 2009, Oklahoma City police said
that they would not pursue criminal charges against Alba, because none of the
property owners wanted to pursue it. Alba apologized in a statement to People
magazine and said that she regretted her actions. She later donated an
undisclosed amount of money (over $500) to the United Way, whose billboard she
had obscured with one of the shark posters.
In 2011, Alba participated in a two-day lobbying effort in Washington D.C. in
support of the Safe Chemicals Act, a revision of the Toxic Substances Control
Act of 1976.
Awards
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2001 ALMA Award Breakthrough Actress of the Year
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2005 Young Hollywood Awards Superstar of Tomorrow
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2007 Spike TV Guys' Choice Awards Hottest Jessica
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2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Favorite Female Movie Star
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Dated 16 December 2013
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