Jessica Alba

Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981 in Pomona, California, USA) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in movies such as Idle Hands, and her starring role in the TV series Dark Angel. She got her first starring movie role in Honey, and went on to appear in prominent roles in Sin City and Fantastic Four.

Religion

During an interview with GQ magazine, Jessica said that in her teen years she became a born-again Christian in rebellion against her parents, but later abandoned this. She explained:

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GQ - Christian

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One of the reasons why I chose not to be (a devout Christian) is because a lot of people gave me a lot of grief for just being a woman and made me feel ashamed for having a body because it tempted men.

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I didn't understand what that meant because I was like, 'God created this...' That was a hard time in my life. http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/alba%20turns%20her%20back%20on%20christian%20pals%20who%20made%20her%20feel%20ashamed

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As the daughter of conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not even allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had been willing to be nude in Sin City. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily-clad:

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"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."

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