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Jessica
Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) 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.
Alba
was born in Pomona, California to Mark Alba (of
Mexican descent) and Cathy Jensen (whose father
is of Danish descent and mother is of French
Canadian descent). Alba was raised in a military
family, living with her parents, her brother
Joshua, and her grandparents until she was
sixteen. She grew up a sports fanatic. Her
father's navy career took the family to Biloxi,
Mississippi, and Del Rio, Texas, before they
settled back in California when she was nine.
Alba's early life had been marked by a multitude
of physical maladies, as she suffered collapsed
lungs twice, had pneumonia 4-5 times a year, and
suffered a burst appendix, a cyst on her
tonsils, asthma, anorexia, and a kidney
infection. This served to isolate her from other
children at school because, as she claims, she
was in the hospital so often that no one knew
her well enough to befriend her. She also
revealed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that
she suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder
as a child. Her health improved, however, when
her family moved to California. Read
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