Jessica Alba Trivia
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Birth name: Jessica Marie Alba
Date of birth: 28 April 1981
Place of birth: Pomona, California, USA
Nickname: Sky Angel
Height: 5′ 6½” (1.69 m)
- Sister of Joshua Alba
- Her brother Joshua appeared with her in “And Jesus Brought a Casserole,” the first season finale of Dark Angel, in which he played Krit, one of her X-5 brothers who wanted to help destroy Manticore.
- On E’s “101 Sexiest Bodies”, Alba was placed at 3rd, behind Brad Pitt in 2nd and Angelina Jolie in 1st.
- Was #1 on Maxim’s Hot 100 Babe List. [2001]
- Her father is Mexican, her mother is of French and Danish descent.
- Was voted the fifth Sexiest Female Star for 2002 in a Hollywood.com poll. She reported plans to wed fiance Michael Weatherly this summer. [February 2002]
- Her show “Dark Angel” (2000) was canceled after two seasons on Fox.
- Vote #4 in the Top 10 Sci-Fi Babes in 2002 for her role as Max in “Dark Angel” (2000).
- Jessica’s image was used in the Need for Speed: Most Wanted computer and video game.
- Loves to play golf.
- Has started training in dance and Tae Bo two months prior to the start of scheduled filming on her new film, Honey (2003). [July 2002]
- Voted in at #6 in FHM’s Sexiest Girls of 2002 poll, American edition. [June 2002]
- Nominated worst actress for both Fantastic Four and Into the Blue for the 26th annual Razzie Awards.
- Graduated high school at age 16.
- Has a tattoo of a daisy with a ladybug on it on the back of her neck.
- She has a tattoo of a daisy with a ladybird on it on the back of her neck, one of a butterfly just above her lower back and a recently made one in her wrist, a sanskrit character meaning “padma”, the sanskrit word for lotus flower.
- Her second cousin is skateboarding legend Steve “Salba” Alba.
- Broke off her long engagement to co-star Michael Weatherly (“Dark Angel” (2000)) in 2003 but has reconciled recently.
- She co-starred in one episode of “Dark Angel” (2000) with her brother, Joshua Alba, entitled “…And Jesus Brought a Casserole.” He played, Krit, one of her X-5 brothers who wanted to help destroy Manticore in the Season 1 finale.
- Engaged to “Dark Angel” (2000) costar Michael Weatherly. [May 2001]
- Mentioned in the D12 song “My Band”.
- Was “Punk’d” (2003) on the Ashton Kutcher-hosted MTV show in 2003. Dax Shepard showed up fully nude at a clothing store Jessica was patronizing, following Miss Alba around the store and exposing his “business” to the blushing actress as she tried to shop for clothes. The soon-to-be Mrs. Michael Weatherly was a good sport after being informed it was all a practical joke, taped for the short-lived MTV show.
- Though it is common for actresses and female pop stars to strip down to various states of undress for magazine layouts and movie/TV scenes, she has stated that she is a very modest girl and would never do a nude scene or pose topless in a magazine. She has posed for men’s magazines fully dressed, however.
- Ranked #12 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women in the World” (2002).
- Said once in an interview that she began preparing her own meals as a child to control her weight and maintain her health. She said the food her family prepared led to weight problems for them, so she avoided that.
- After graduating from high school, she studied with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at David Mamet’s Atlantic Theater Company.
- Named one of “50 Most Beautiful People” by People Magazine. [2005]
- Had asthma as a child.
- She wanted to become an actress at the age of five.
- Became anorexic the same year she had a kidney infection.
- Measurements: 34-24-34 according to an interview with Rolling Stone magazine
- Has two pug dogs named Nancy (after her character in Sin City 2005) and Sid.
- Named #5 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.
- Shares birthday with director Danilo Beckovic.
- Ranked #3 on E! Television’s 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies
- Shares a birthday with Penélope Cruz.
- She and Hayden Christensen visited Bellevue hospital and spent time with little children, bringing them Christmas cheer while filming “Awake”.
- Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and Sex Star of the Year in its March 2006 issue, on whose cover she appeared. Alba is currently involved in a litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (which was a promotional shot for Into the Blue) without her consent, and making it seem she appears in the issue in a “nude or semi-nude pictorial.”
- 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.
- 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.
- On June 16, 2009, Oklahoma City police said that they wouldn’t 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 August 2010 it was announced that Alba will appear in Spy Kids 4.
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