Jessica Alba

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When I went from girl body to woman body and all of a sudden I had tits and hips and a little tummy and natural fat in places, I freaked out.
- Jessica Alba
Collection: Girl
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It's really, really, really difficult to have the same occupation as the person you're with - especially when you're both actors.
- Jessica Alba
Collection: Actors
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The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it.
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Collection: Mom
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After a bath, I like to use Jo Wood Organics Usiku Body Oil. It mositurises my skin without leaving it greasy.
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Collection: Oil
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My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere.
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Collection: Growing Up
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Parents try the best they can. They want the best for you. But a lot of their stuff is just their own. If you can pull yourself away from it and not always feel like they're attacking you, then it's easier to deal with.
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Collection: Parent
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It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.
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Collection: Who I Am
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I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.
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Collection: Fashion
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Makeup can be pure fantasy--it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.
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Collection: Mom
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It's not always so great to be objectified, but I don't feel I have much of a choice right now. I'm young in my career. I know I have to strike when the iron is hot.
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Collection: Careers
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Nanotechnology is really interesting to me. Stuff to sort of make our world a better place, and a cleaner place, through science. And it also explains things that are happening. I've always been into it.
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Collection: Our World
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No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.
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Collection: Hard Times
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My approach to acting now is so different -- I'm fearless because I have nothing to lose. Before [children] my identity was wrapped up in every decision -- now, I don't care.
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Collection: Children
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[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.
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Collection: Daughter
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I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman.
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Collection: Thinking
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As far as being married and what it means to me... it's nice knowing that I have a partner in life and that someone's got my back.
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Collection: Nice
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I don't need to be famous. I'm not that ambitious. At this point, if I'm not sucked in, I'm never going to get sucked in. Being the so-called hot girl, I disconnect from that. It's not that deep.
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Collection: Girl
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Mike Adams, you are simply the sexiest man alive. You have my vote in .
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Collection: Men
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I've been getting my makeup done professionally since I was 12, I've never found a brand that could create that glowing look and flawless finish we all want from beauty products with ingredients that were effective and safe. So I had to create it.
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Collection: Makeup
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I've got cousins galore, Mexicans just spread all their seeds and the women just pop them out
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Collection: Cousin
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I'm really good at being sarcastic with guys. That's the best way to hang out with them, because that's what guys . They don't want the quiet, prissy little things.
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Collection: Sarcastic
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I'm comfortable looking sexy. I don't push it with poses, although I like the ironic part of it. That's what makes it fun.
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Collection: Sexy
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I'm much more of a risk taker. I'm more fearless now than when I was 18. I was much more self-aware and I cared too much about what people thought of me and now I really don't. I probably should.
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Collection: Self
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I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.
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Collection: Cousin
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For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.
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Collection: Stress
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Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can't be the only solution. You can't hire a team of scientists to do your shopping for you. At some point the government has to step in and ensure that chemicals are safe before our children are exposed to them.
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Collection: Mom
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All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen.
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Collection: Mom
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As a kid, I was always sick. I had pneumonia, I had really severe allergies. And it wasn't until I got older, that I realized some of that was caused by toxins in things like detergent. That made me crazy, because it's supposed to help get things clean!
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Collection: Crazy
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I could have a one-night stand, and I'm the kind of girl who looks over in the morning and is like, Do you really have to be here? I don't need to cuddle and do all that stuff because I know what it is and I don't try to make it more. I feel like a lot of women try to make it into more, so they don't feel so bad about just wanting to have sex.
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Collection: Girl
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A parent knows better than any book or "expert" what their kid really needs.
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Collection: Book
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Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.
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Collection: Strong
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I loved my baby dolls when I was a kid. I used to pray with them and say good night to each and every one of them because I didn't want their feelings to get hurt. I remember having that connection with my baby dolls.
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Collection: Good Night
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There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.
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Collection: Women
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I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.
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Collection: Girlfriend
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I had severe asthma and kidney problems and would get 105-degree fevers. I actually almost had to go on dialysis for my kidneys. I was also in the hospital for pneumonia.
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Collection: Pneumonia
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I don't think it serves any minority or underrepresented group to be coddled. Because the world won't coddle you. So I actually believe in tough love, hard truths, black and white.
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Collection: Believe
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I actually wanted to be a producer because I like to run things.
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Collection: Running
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When it comes to diversity, women are still underrepresented in so many different places, but one place we're not underrepresented is we hold a majority of the household income, and we control that.
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Collection: Diversity
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Some [actors] are really a pain in the ass today. I held out on getting an assistant forever because I didn't want to seem demanding... or like a pain in the ass. I didn't want someone working for me to hate me.
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Collection: Pain
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People are unbelievably giving and caring and understanding of me because of what I do for a living and because actors tend to get their asses kissed everywhere they go, so I can be extra-understanding in a relationship.
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Collection: Caring
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I went through puberty really early, when I was 11. It makes you feel weird - you know, like your uncle is now hugging you a little bit longer than he used to. I think we all go through wanting to go back - you're not sure you're ready for that body.
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Collection: Uncles
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I'm not trying to do stuff for my kids necessarily all the time, but when you get the odd opportunity to do something for them that they could enjoy its cool.
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Collection: Kids
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I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous.
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Collection: People
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Way too high maintenance to be in a relationship with an actor. I don't need a man who spends as much time in front of the mirror as me.
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Collection: Men
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Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.
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Collection: Husband
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When I work out, I have energy and feel good about myself.
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Collection: Work Out
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Sometimes I don't like my thighs or stomach, but whenever I get caught up in that, I always focus on the fact that I'm healthy now.
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Collection: Focus
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I bizarrely think that this [Sin City] is the perfect date movie. If a guy took me on a date to see this movie, I would marry him, for sure. It's bad-ass chicks and rad dudes, who are sexy, all over the place, and there's so much cool action.
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Collection: Sexy
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I like to cook. I would probably go to culinary school in France if I had time.
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Collection: School