Jessica Alba reveals she put up masculine persona

• Jessica Alba revealed that she adopted a masculine identity as a teenager.
• At the age of 13, she made her film and television debut.
• Alba is a co-founder of The Honest Company.

The actress Jessica Alba revealed on HBO Max’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” that she adopted a masculine identity as a teenager to protect herself from Hollywood predators.

The Fantastic Four actress started performing at the age of 13, and at the age of 19, she was cast as Fox’s Max Guevara in her first major role.

When asked if it bothered her that the media presented her as a sex symbol, Alba replied, “I guess I understood that I needed to help sell the product.”

“And they sell it how they do so I understood it as a business decision and a strategy. And so I was able to distance myself from it. But I guess, you know, you can’t change other people’s minds about what they may or may not think of you. I don’t think that there’s anything wrong with owning your sexuality. I just frankly was definitely not that person. I was very nervous about all of that, and I was quite uncomfortable in my own skin.”

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“It wasn’t until I became a mom that I really started to even see myself as a woman or a sexual being or someone who owned her power and her femininity,” Alba continued.

At that time, I felt like I was very much having to put up this armor of masculinity and masculine energy so I wouldn’t, you know, be preyed on because there were a lot of predators in Hollywood from age 12 to 26.”

“I was a warrior. I put up that energy,” Alba said. “I was really tough, man. I curse like a sailor and I was very, I try…I think I tried to make myself as unavailable as possible, so that I wouldn’t be taken advantage of.”

At the age of 13, Alba made her film and television debuts in Camp Nowhere and The Hidden World of Alex Mack. Her work in Dark Angel is what made her most well-known. Moreover, Alba is a co-founder of The Honest Company, a retailer of consumer goods that sells baby and home goods.

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