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Jessica Alba Avoided Hollywood Predators by Creating an ‘Armor of Masculine Energy’: ‘I Was Really Tough. I Cursed Like a Sailor’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jessica Alba said on a recent episode of HBO Max and CNN’s “Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace?” that she adopted a more masculine persona as a teenager and young adult in Hollywood in order to deliberately avoid being preyed upon by various Hollywood predators.

Alba started acting at age 13 and landed her breakthrough role as Max Guevara on Fox’s “Dark Angel” when she was 19 years old.

The James Cameron-created series made Alba both a feminist TV icon of the early 2000s and a sex symbol. “I guess I understood that I needed to help sell the product,” Alba told Wallace when asked if it bothered her how the media objectified her as a sex symbol. “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.

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