Jessica Alba felt awkward trying to be sexy when she was a 19-year-old virgin
Jessica Alba covers the July issue of InStyle. I like the cover shot a lot, even though she looks kind of pissed off. I think Alba just has RBF (resting bitchface) though. Alba actually covers InStyle because of a movie role, not because of the Honest Company. She’s been shilling the Honest Company in magazine interviews for a while now, but this time she’s shilling for her role in Mechanic: Resurrection. I know, I know, it’s the most anticipated movie of the summer! I’ve literally never heard of it before now. Anyway, Alba chats with InStyle about being a virgin in Hollywood when she was 19, her childhood asthma and more. Some highlights:
Breaking out at the age of 19: “My sexuality made me very uncomfortable. I remember my first Maxim shoot, they were telling me to pose a certain way, and I was like, ‘Agh! I’m 19. I’m a virgin. I don’t even know how to do that.’ It was so awkward.”
Being known as a sexy action heroine by the age of 25: “I sort of went through a life crisis. I was like, ‘This isn’t what I set out to be. I’m so much more than this, but I don’t know how not to be a sex symbol.'”
But she was always a tomboy: “The first time I wore a dress and heels, I had to go to the Golden Globes.”
She had a lot of health problems as a kid: “I was definitely born different. I loved to challenge authority. I was a very difficult child to parent. I was hyper. I didn’t sleep a lot. And being sick so often and being in and out of the hospital so much made it hard to form relationships.”
Even though it’s none of my business, I did have to check the timeline… Alba would have been 19 when she first started on Dark Angel with Michael Weatherly in 2000. Alba and Weatherly became engaged in 2001. Was Weatherly her first overall? Her first lover, her first boyfriend, her first everything? And he was 13 years older than her too. Huh. As for Alba’s discomfort at being sexualized, I think she’s probably one of those people who reads as “stuck up” when she’s actually just sort of insecure. That might be a new way of looking at Alba overall.
Photos courtesy of InStyle.
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