Happy birthday Jessica Alba! Here are 10 things you might don’t know about her life and acting career

Jessica Marie Alba was born in 1981 in Pomona, California, under the zodiac sign of Taurus.

She started her acting career very young! By the age of 13, she had television and movie experiences after appearing in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack.

She was still a teenager when she rose to prominence. At 19, Alba became the lead actress of Dark Angel. A science-fiction drama television series premiered in 2000 and continued its transmissions on the Fox network until 2002. Thanks to the show, she also received a Golden Globe nomination

Alba’s big breakthrough came in 2003 in the dance film Honey. Soon after, the birthday girl was established as a rising star in Hollywood. The actress’s career quickly grew, and she starred in several box office hits, including Fantastic Four and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Good Luck Chuck, The Eye, Valentine’s Day, and many more.

In 2014, Alba agreed to investigate more about her past and appeared in Henry Louis Gates’s genealogy series Finding Your Roots. The show’s research indicated that her surname was inherited from Indigenous people. Alba’s global admixture is 72.7% European, 22.5% East Asian, and Native American.

In 2011, the Mexican descent superstar decided to venture into the consumer goods company and co-founded The Honest Company.

Alba’s business supply the marketplace for ethical consumerism. She’s been so successful that her company had $250 million in 2016 sales, and since 2017 has been valued at 1 billion dollars.

Her activism and charity work are as impactful as her career and business. She has participated 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‘s Villages, Soles4Souls, Step Up, and Baby2Baby, and she is also is an ambassador for the 1Goal movement to provide education to children in Africa.

In 2004, she met the love of her life, Cash Warren, while filming Fantastic Four in 2004. Four years later, they married in Los Angeles, and in the same year, they welcome their firstborn, Honor Marie, born in June 2008, later came Haven Garner, born in August 2011, and years later, they had a son, Hayes, born in December 2017.

Jessica Alba has been included in several publications’ lists as one of the most attractive celebrities. She was featured on Maxim Magazine’s Hot 100 list multiple times and was voted as the fifth Sexiest Female Star in a Hollywood.com poll. She is also one of People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People of 2005 and was named among Playboy’s “25 Sexiest Celebrities.” In 2012, People named her one of the year’s “Most Beautiful at Every Age.”