Jessica Alba, known for her role as Sue Storm of the Fantastic 4, has opened up about predators in Hollywood.
“It’s not just her, every woman I know does this,” wrote one fan.
“I feel like it’s gotten worse and worse over the years. I was being flirted with at the age of TWELVE by men older than TWENTY. Something is seriously wrong with this country smh,” another agreed.
“It’s a survival technique many of us use. Don’t like it? Stop teaching the necessity for it.” offered a third.
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Alba opened up about her experiences with predators.
It’s a departure from the beauty news we usually expect from the star …
Alba is known as one of the most stunning stars of Hollywood.
The star has a famous history of changing her hairstyle, dating all the way back to the 90s…
Let’s take a look, shall we…
During the late 1990s, when her career launched, she rocked a black pixie meets-bob ‘do.
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She then landed a starring role in Dying Angel.
This time she went on to dye her hair red/brown type of color.
Then in the early 2000s when Alba underwent a transformation…
And went on to have the latest hairstyle at the time — chunky highlights.
From then onwards, she tried out several different hairstyles.
Going from long caramel hair to long brown hair, to short caramel hair, and short brown hair… you get the idea.
But the latest news from Alba is much more serious.
About her experience of predators in Hollywood.
We all know about Harvey Weinstein.
But it turns out that the problem runs deeper than just one man.
It seems that predatory men are an epidemic everywhere …
But particularly in the “glamorous” world of acting.
And Alba is one of the latest in a string of celebrities opening up about the issue.
She spoke to Chris Wallace about growing up in an industry of “predators.”
Speaking on “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?”, Alba got candid.
She claimed she had to alter her “energy” to counteract the attention on her.
Alba explained she knew she was “objectified” in her early career.
After all, she was cast in her early roles as something of a s*x symbol!
Alba explained she knew she was there to “sell” a product.
Claiming she “understood” her role at the time.
“I guess I understood that I needed to help sell the product,” she told the host.
“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,” she continued.
“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.”
Alba then explained her strategies for avoiding unwanted attention.
Including suppressing her own femininity.
“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,” the actor went on.
She claims she relied on using masculine energy to protect herself.
“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.”
“I was really tough, man. I curse like a sailor and I think I tried to make myself as unavailable as possible so that I wouldn’t be taken advantage of.”
Alba credits this toxic environment as the reason she chose to step back from acting.
“I think at the time, I felt a bit tapped out with entertainment, with where it was at.
“It was pre-#MeToo movement and I think this is a very different Hollywood today than it was 14 years ago,” Alba told Wallace.
“I just took a step back and kind of let it do its thing.
“Entertainment was really like — the town was very different.”
What do you think of Alba’s admission?