Why is Jessica Alba famous?

My boyfriend and I just saw her on some commercial and he asked me where she's from. He started to Google her but I stopped him to see if we could figure it out on our own. We couldn't. We couldn't name a single movie or tv show she's appeared in, yet I feel like she's at least a b-lister. Then we started thinking of other similar celebrities: Jessica Biel (aside from marrying Timberfag) is another one.

• Agree about both Jessicas. Every year there is a new list of "It" girls (and boys), all about to be the next big thing. After a couple of years, their faces and even names all begin to blur together, soon to be forgotten.

• Not fast enough

• Without Google I remember her from the superhero movie, Honey and a TV show in early 2000s.

• OP, you can ask that question of just about anyone who is labeled a celebrity today.

• James Cameron discovered her to play a ninja nymphet some time ago. Forget the name of the series, but that "broke" her. And us.

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• Sans Google.. I believe she was in a TV show cALLED Dark Girl or something like that

• Really, R4? I mean, I've never seen a movie with Jennifer Lawrence or watched Lena Dunham's show, but when I see pictures of them I at least know they have some cultural relevancy.

• Well she had the looks at least, at one point she was ridiculously hot and kinda peaked around Into the Blue with male counterpart Paul Walker. Getting married and having a kid so early ruined her appeal a bit. And no she can't act and seems a stuck up snotty bitchwhore much like Biel.

• Can't stand Jessica Alba.

• Alba is very well known by straight men. She is adored by many of them. They don't care if she can act or not. They don't care if she is in good movies or not. Get it? I remember a long time ago when Jennifer Connelly was seemingly pretty unknown to the general public and a writer commented that despite that almost all men (straight I assume) from teenagers to old men knew who she was. In the early days of the internet Jennifer and Pamela Anderson were the most downloaded people. Just because someone is not on our radar does not make her unwanted in the world. "Talent" is in the eye of the beholder.

• [quote]They don't care if she can act or not. They don't care if she is in good movies or not. Get it? That's not the point. People other than straight men know who she is and she hasn't been in ANY movies or TV shows this millenium, so how would they even know? If it wasn't for these commercials would she even be working? She must have an amazing agent and PR team.

• [quote]I remember a long time ago when Jennifer Connelly was seemingly pretty unknown to the general public Like the 1980s? Because she was a child star and has been working forever.

• R12 - Exactly.

• [quote] so how would they even know? She is famous because she is considered beautiful. She has been a staple of men's magazines and other media where men see her. THAT'S how she is famous. Jennifer Connelly was never all that famous until she was older. The only movie the general public really knew her for was Labyrinth. You could never have called her a famous or A List actor in her youth or even before A Beautiful Mind. The point I am making is that some people are way more famous than their career might seem to merit and not for bad reasons either. For these 2 women it was because they were very beautiful and desirable. And there is nothing wrong with publicity for up and coming performers.

• Well, my mother doesn't read men's magazines and she knows who Jessica Alba is. So its not just men.

• Weirdly I can't recall anything Jessica Alba has done in the past 5-10 years except have a kid with some Cash person (or was it she named her baby Cash?) but I distinctly remember her as the pretty popular jr. high rival of Alex Mack on the Secret World of Alex Mack and the love interest of Devon Sawa in the teen gore flick "Idle Hands." Looking at her IMDB bio I am pretty sure I rented Sin City and probably watched an episode of Sin City because I saw Jensen Ackles was on it right after he left Days of our Lives, but damn it is really bizarre how famous she is in proportion to her movie/TV output, especially when she hasn't even bothered to have a reality TV show or date another famous person. It's very bizarre.

• R15, this is because your mom reads all these People/US Weekly/Hello tabloids, and that's the only place I have seen J.Alba lately

• Her biracial husband is hot.

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• DARK ANGEL was the name of the tv show she was in. It was a cult hit, but wasn't on but a couple of seasons if I recall correctly. Her part in the FANTASTIC FOUR movies was probably her most famous role. And she has been, as a previous poster said, a str8 man's cream dream. Chris Rockway said he used the thought of banging her to get hard for scenes. No comment.

• This is a translation from a Russian text, the author has gotten his info from Enty, I Think, so it might be quite untrue, but who knows: "I decided not to write about how many stars (Blake Lovely, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leighton Meester, Demi Lovato, Tara Reid, Rachel Bilson, Jessica Alba, Eva Mendez, Sharon Stone, Ryan Gosling) came to Hollywood. Let's just say it's not because of their talent." Link:

  http://translate.google.com/translate%3Fsl%3Dru%26tl%3Den%26js%3Dn%26prev%3D_t%26hl%3Den%26ie%3DUTF-8%26layout%3D2%26eotf%3D1%26u%3Dhttp://www.spletnik.ru/blogs/pro_zvezd/51585_za_kulisami_gollivuda/comments/3%23comments

• Aside from Dark Angel, Sin City and the Fantastic Four movies, she dated Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter for a couple years, and did many, many covers for Maxim and FHM and their ilk - so agree with the "better known by straight men" description.

• Ha, that's a good read R20, despite the extremely crappy translation.

• She pouted her way, while wearing a skin tight outfit, through a tv series from James "King of the World" Cameron.

• She's fugly.

• She is half Mexican, half white, and all douche. Read the link and you'll understand.

  http://www.mediatakeout.com/7187/jessica_alba_dont_call_me_a_latina.html

• The paps stalk her and i can't understand why.

• They don't stalk her, r26, that's her job these days, to be out, seen as just a regular mom with her adorable kids. She probably has a deal with Wholefoods and Starbucks, same as Ben Affleck.

• Jessica Alba was one of the bitchy high school girls in that dreadful Drew Barrymore movie "Never Been Kissed." That was about a year or two before Dark Angel.

• I totally forgot that she was in Fantastic Four. I mostly associate her with that cheestastic movie Honey. But she had a big part in Machete and I'm assume she'll be in the sequel. She wasn't bad in the movie but she was far from the highlight. She's currently promoting a self-help book she wrote.

  http://www.amazon.com/Honest-Life-Living-Naturally-True/dp/1609619110/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360863766&sr=1-1&keywords=jessica alba

  I wish I didn't know this

• Her tv show Dark Angel was really popular with my age group (I was in college at the time), and I knew a ton of guys who were in love with her. Her career has kind of fizzled since then.