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to be parsed out over a year or two, but I
fi gured out how to cram all of my lessons
into one summer. " Her days were nine
hours of back-to-back acting lessons. " My
mother and I spent all day in Beverly Hills. I
would see famous people. " She remembers
spotting Robert Downey, Jr., Rosie O'Donnell,
Richard Grieco. " My mom would always want
me to go take pictures with them. And I was
like, 'No. Mom, I'm one of them. I want them
to treat me like an equal, not like a fan. My
mom was like, 'What are you talking about?' "
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lba had " it. " She knew it and
everyone else did too. She did
some JCPenney commercials
and got her very fi rst role,
which was a small part in a 1994 movie called
Camp Nowhere. By the late 1990s she had
done two episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210
and was cast in a breakthrough role: as a
government-created, genetically enhanced
super-soldier in the James Cameron TV
show Dark Angel. It became a cult hit and she
was an action hero, a badass. It set her up
for success-and fame. Then came her fi rst
starring role in a movie: Honey.
She kept going. The 2000s cineplex
belonged to her: Sin City, Fantastic Four, The
Love Guru, Into the Blue, Good Luck Chuck,
Little Fockers, Machete...she even played
herself on Entourage-twice. She became a
regular on the cover of so-called " lad mags. "
She continued acting while starting Honest-
even making a cameo in Taylor Swift's
2015 " Bad Blood " video-but launching a
business, raising a family... there are only
so many hours in the day, even for Jessica
Alba. And besides, she missed working in
TV and fi lm. " I've missed it for a long time, "
Alba admits. " Of course, you need the right
projects to come along. "
Alba is quick to name her favorite costar
in all of this: California. " There are so many
incredible facets to this state, " she notes.
" The topography is amazing. The wildlife is
incredible. I get to live in literally the most
magical piece of nature. " She feels a sense
of stewardship for the land, and in fact was
raised with that responsibility.
" We always fi gured out a way to be
conscious of how we treat our land, how
we treat our planet. Nature made me more
conscientious. You can't just suck it dry.
You have to give back to it. "
Alba remembers driving south down the
coast as a teenager with her friends. " They
would surf at Trestles and Huntington Beach
and bring their guitars. We'd be at the beach
and do bonfi res and sing. That's when I felt it.
The beauty of nature. The endless ocean. The
enormity of it all. I realized my place in it. "
It was there, at the beach, that Jessica
Alba, future mega-star and multi-hyphenate,
had already found her Hollywood ending. She
just didn't know it yet.
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