Jessica Alba Fell Out of Love With Showbiz
Fantastic Four was Jessica Alba’s big break, but the experience left a sour taste in her mouth. The director asked her to “be prettier when you cry,” which lead Jessica into a whirl of self-doubt. She later admitted that “then it all got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Do people hate [my emotions] so much that they don’t want me to be a person? And so I just said, ‘F*** it. I don’t care about this business anymore.’”
She still popped up in movies but never quite starred in leading roles. Instead, she chose to focus on her growing family life and new natural consumer goods business, The Honest Company. And it’s been pretty successful. She swapped out showbiz for the chance to make baby and household products safer, and it’s been paying off.
