Jessica Alba: ‘I’ve never been perceived as anything but a sex symbol’
August 5, 2011 in Celebrity Quotes, Jessica Alba by Versus
Hottie Jessica Alba brings today’s quote:
On being considered a sex symbol: “I’ve never been perceived as anything but a sex symbol, so I don’t even know what that means,” she says.
On her sexy Campari calendar she shot wearing heels and a bathing suit: “It got people talking,” she says. “Besides, it’s not like my boobies were out or my bum was showing.
Pictured: A before-and-after Photoshop shot from the Campari calendar.
And see more debatable quotes from Jessica HERE!
Oh that poor little pretty girl… Annoying
Why?! What’s “annoying?” That doesn’t make any sense.
I’m guessing Jessica Alba is the annoying one. Like if this is the thing worth complaining about in your life, maybe you’d better count yourself lucky. I guess that’s what the OP meant.
It’s a shame that they find it necessary to photoshop her so drastically
I like her un-photoshopped pic better than the photoshopped one
agreed, the only thing I would have take out is the wrinkles in the fabric along her hips
looked better pre-photoshop
dumb quote
If almost all of your movie roles zoom in on your ass, or your dancing in slow motion on a stage in the dark with a lasso while thrusting your pelvis into the camera, OWN IT. This is why I never had a problem with anyone from Kate Winslet to Pamela Anderson.
What annoys the hell out of me about Jessica Alba is her CONSTANTLY trying to justify her ultra-sexual roles are. “It’s not like I was naked!!” “I don’t need to do nudity – a whore can do that,” etc., etc. And no, doing *a* kid movie doesn’t undo all of it. lol
I honestly have always wanted to like her. It’s just that her personality sucks.
youre comment is perfect!:) I SOOO agree! lol
agree 100%
agree 300%
omg, will someone PLEASE shut this woman up?!? i’m sorry but all of her quotes and need for media attention lately is getting really annoying… :-/
so sorry to hear that making millions and being the object of desire of thousands of people is difficult for you.
She’ll also never been perceived as anything but highly conceited with quotes like this…
Sex symbol? Really?
LOL. I had the same thought.
ha I was thinking the exact same thing
Oh, honey, jealousy is one of the ugliest things a woman can show the world. Jessica Alba IS gorgeous and sexy. Get over it.
Also, putting others down will NOT “build you up.” In fact, it will expose all your shortcomings and insecurities to the world. Make that comment in front of a guy and you’ve done a disservice to ALL women. Why? Because you’ve confirmed the sexist attitude that women are “jealous” of each other and act like harpies tearing each other down. YOU are one of those women/girls. Sort yourself out.
There are many women/girls out there who are beautiful AND would welcome you and act graciously towards you but your attitude is nasty so you’d push anyone away because of your jealousy. No one wants to be around an insecure, low self esteem, negative individual who puts everyone down.
Try finding something you LIKE and focus on that. That, dear, is how you become “attractive.”
And, speaking as a woman who also has been told she is “beautiful and sexy” all her life, it ain’t some dream world where everything goes right. In fact, try being extremely intelligent but having everything you say become meaningless because people just think you’re only there to be “looked at.” I have waited for over 40 years to get to the point where I don’t get cat called in the street or have other women give me nasty looks because, of course, in their tiny minds, I must be a “bitch” because I am “attractive.” Guess what? I had no friends growing up because all I got was male attention. Males who just want to f*ck you over and I mean that figuratively and literally. All you’re there for is a f*ck.
So, sweetheart, before you go off putting other women down to build yourself up, take a moment to consider ALL the implications of your experience AND there’s as well. The grass is never greener.
Errr…come again?
Jessica is not beautiful nor sexy to me either, she’s just not. Period. It’s a matter of opinion. YOU get over it.
Don’t mind her. She’s trolling in the deep. In this post, she’s a woman who has been told she was beautiful her entire life. In another, she just lost 40 lbs and is looking to lose like 30 more.
Keep that story straight, Frederica.
Ummm, perhaps when you stop being so condescending and patronising, people will take you more seriously. Your comment makes you sound like a real prat, with your words like “sweetheart” and “dear” thrown in.
Besides, the original poster never said JA was ugly, or made any jealous comment about her. She just said she didn’t think she was a sex symbol. Obviously that’s subjective, so you seem to be the one with the issue here.
Sweetheart, you sound like every other insecure bitter girl on facebook who thinks that every other girl out there is jealous and intimidated by their “overwhelming beauty”. Get over yourself. You get cat called a lot? Newsflash for you, men will leer and catcall and want to f*** anything with a pulse, it doesn’t make you extraordinary in the least….sweetheart.
Wow lol this site sure brings out the crazies sometimes.
Frederica bimble, just actually read your comment… HAHAHAHA… You’re a tit. Get over it. And yourself.
Pa ha ha I only just read all this. I didn’t read the essay by the first replied after the first ‘sweetheart’ tbh.
All I meant was she isn’t a sex symbol. She’s a pretty, girl next door type. She’s not in the same league as your Angelina Jolie types who would literally stop traffic. She’s just, meh. But then that may be her personality showing through.
I’m almost embarrassed about the amount of relief i felt when i noticed how much they photoshopped her waist
Well, she isn’t good at acting so what else can she be perceived as if she wants success and fame in Hollywood? She should be grateful and not bitch about it. Im sorry but she seems so ungrateful and spoiled!!
agree
So do YOU, honey. So do you.
I know. I think she was a good tv actress honestly, but the way she keeps spoiling movies that might otherwise have been good gets on my nerves…..I like Jessica Alba actually, but I refuse to watch a movie with her in it because it will aggravate me.
didn’t need the photoshop. love the one-piece, though.
Don’t worry Jessica in a few years when your looks go downhill and you can’t rely on your *spectacular* acting skills for a job, you’ll be dreaming of the days when you were considered a sex symbol. Until then keep being miserable because your beauty is just too overwhelming (sarcasm) for you to deal with.
“Until then keep being miserable because your beauty is just too overwhelming (sarcasm) for you to deal with.” – lol you made me laugh with your comment
Hahaha agreed! Seriously Anastasia, you’re too freaking funny!
lol thanks Ic.
Sure
Poor Baby.
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She really didn t have a choice, did she
Sex symbol?Ahhhh, not really.
ive never seen the hype about her
yes she is pretty but i find her feature so pretty its boring
I would just like to tell Jessica to get over herself! Jeezzz.
waah waaaaah, I have mediocre acting skills but I still get acting jobs because of my looks but life is so unfair, waaaah waaaaah. Hey Jess, how about a little less feeling of entitlement and maybe concentrating on improving your acting skills and you are pretty for sure, but sex symbol??? Um me thinks not!
Ha I kinda feel a little smug knowing that my body looks better than her photoshopped body HA!
Is that horrible: Yes!
Does it make me feel any less good: NOPE!
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My body is almost identical to her non photoshopped body and I love it!!
no one cares
Wow harsh much…
No one cares about your ugly ass either.
Own it Sienna. It’s always curious to me how many people emphatically preach about poor young girls with low-self esteem and how they need to feel good about their bodies and be more confident and blah blah blah, yet if there is so much as a single comment at least somewhat showing a hint of pride and satisfaction with one’s looks…it gets ripped apart.
It just shows you how much people really care about those “poor young girls with low self esteems.” They only care in the moment where it justifies their preaching/opinions. But in reality? No. In reality, when someone is confident, it’s too threatening! Must lash out and make that person feel like crap about themselves like we do! (rolls eyes)
Agreed. What was it hurting the other commenter that she said that? Let her be proud of her figure.
Well said!
Agreed!
Thanks guys!!
There are enough people who’ll try to make you feel bad about yourself as it is, so I just try to see the good in me! It feels good when you see a celebrity with a body that looks like yours!
Besides, it’s not like I said I look better than Jessica’s photoshopped body like the person before me… I mean she has the right to feel that way but her comment was expressed in a negative way while I think mine was positive.
LOL at this entire thread. the insufferable pc-ness of the comments never cease to amuse me. calm down, you guys. were not on charlie rose here. i didnt say her body wasnt great, i said no one cares. good for you that you have a body like hers. i myself have prettmuch the exact body as eva green in the dreamers,and i too, love it. see? no one cares.
Hmmm well gigi…if you don’t care so much (still, at that), why do you keep posting?
and how lovely that casey lectures me on self esteem (when i never insulted her body, i insulted her post) and yet overlooks the stunning maturity of sienna calling me “ugly ass”. lol. thanks for reminding me why i rarely waste my time here anymore.
I lectured you because I find insulting the post worse.
And your insulting of her post was uncalled for, yet I don’t think you can make the same argument about her insulting your post. I can’t speak for her, but obviously her comment was moreso in response to your unprovoked rudeness than your actual appearance.
And being PC is not part of the discussion here..your comment was straight up rude and unnecessary, and I’m not arguing that it should have been worded differently…I’m arguing that it shouldn’t have been posted at all. God forbid someone is actually comfortable with their body, as if that’s such a common and awful thing that needs to be stifled rather than promoted.
first of all stop taking everything so seriously and lighten up. i cant read one post here without your over sensitive posts nitpicking one thing or another. second of all if you really cared about championing for self esteem you wouldnt be posting on a web site where the sole purpose is to comment on (read: judge) celebrities’ bodies because you would be inherently opposed to such counter-productivity. so dont EVEN give me that. third of all, yes i was rude. and? this isnt a damn tea party, this is a freaking CELEBRITY BLOG. i shudder to think how youd react if you ever went on ohnotheydidnt or imdb. speaking of which, were here to discuss celebrities. i dont care if someone has a body type similar to whoever, especially when its obvious theyre fishing for compliments, and judging by the 12 thumbs up i got, other people agree. and last, the pc-ness of the comments IS part of the discussion. people are so afraid to post what they actually think its hilarious. no one can post anything sounding even remotely unlike theyre at a debutante ball without getting heralded with self righteous responses like yours.
in conclusion, good for you honey.you have a great body. still doesnt mean i care.
1) I didn’t take anything seriously, I took it at face value.
2) I’ve actually found that this website has opened up and widened my standards of beauty, and has made me less picky and judgmental about people’s appearances. Keep in mind that websites like these may lead to different things in different people.
3) I find it very odd that you boldly admit you were being rude but seem to think there’s nothing wrong with that. I guess we are very different people.
4) I frequent this site as opposed to others because posters on here tend to be more respectful. I specifically go out of my way to avoid websites like those that you mentioned, because I don’t find pointless bitching neither entertaining nor productive.
5) You can post whatever you wish, but keep in mind that you are submitting your opinions on a public forum, and depending on what you say, there may be negative feedback towards what you’ve said. I was expressing mine. I don’t like what you’ve said nor do I like it when anyone says or acts like that.
You can continue to act like that if you wish, but it’s distasteful, unnecessary, in my opinion. It has nothing to do with behaving like you are at a “tea party” or a “debutante ball” but rather being a sensible human being. And worst of all, it says more of your character and your own attitude towards your body than anyone else’s.
I don’t wish to turn this into an argument. Like I said, I’m not saying you can’t say what you’ve said. I just expressed my position on saying stuff like that…I don’t like it, never have and never will.
Have a good one.
Gigi,
“i dont care if someone has a body type similar to whoever, especially when its obvious theyre fishing for compliments”
I don’t care for compliments from strangers, in fact I could be lying about my body for all you know! The only reason I posted this because I was *happy* to see Jessica’s real, non photoshopped body look great and resemble my own. If I wanted compliments, I would’ve said my body looked like Candice Swaenepoel’s or Rihanna’s, who are obviously loved more on this site than Jessica, body and personality wise.
Some people actually like seeing body’s of actresses who resemble regular girls, because we are bombarbed by models long, slender body’s daily and it’s nice to see something different once in a while. Comments like “my body looks like hers!” are not that uncommon on this website!
But really, I just wrote what I thought, and there was nothing rude, stupid or bitchy about my comment, unlike yours.
“No one cares about your ugly ass either.” – Now that’s rude! How do you know she’s ugly?
It was my response & defense to her belittling comment.
If she felt attractive herself she wouldn’t mind anyone else acknowledging that they have a good body.
Oh goodness I can only imagine what the people who come on this site would think if they went to sites like ohnotheydidnt or worse idontlikeyouinhatway.
I agree LOL especially idontlikeyouinhatway, this place is like a fairytale compared to that place.
Even Todd the site owner can be more brutal than the actual peeps making the comments.
This is why she’s called miserAlba…
I laughed out loud at this one!
Why did they photoshop her face like that?? She’s smiling in the first picture and they make her look like miss grumpy in the second one.. She has a nice body, why photoshop it to the extreme? So we can all feel miserable for not being superthin hourglasses? I just don’t see the point..
i dont think the two are actually the “same” pictures. Usually they take multiple shots in a short space of time. If you see the legs, you can see the pose is slightly different. Obiviously it doesn’t change the fact that they HAVE altered the photo. But I was thinking about her the other day. I couldnt care less what she says in the media. I just wonder what sort of an impact it will have on her kid. Its a girl yea? If she grows up with a mum that only talks about how pregnancy wrecked her body. How she “starves” on her 1200 calory a day diet post-pregnancy. etc etc. What the hell does she think it’s going to do to a kid….. It’s just seems like a slippery slope to me.
*it
I agree. Those two pictures are obviously not the same shot. Her head position and other things aren’t the same in those shots. There’s no way that the second picture is a photoshopped version of the first. It’s just two pictures with a similar pose. The second is surely photoshopped, as they always photoshop the pictures in magazines, but it’s a different shot.
She looks so much better in the first pic.. real waist, real legs.. and very good proportions..
I don’t get it.. Why/? I understand the lighting, but why the sliming, the totally fake waist..
It’s a mistery..
I always find this girl’s quotes ridiculously entertaining….she is obssessed with her looks but then complains that it’s the only thing that enables her to get roles….how about working on the acting????
You said it sister!!
I’ve actually never found her to be anything other than “perceived as a horrid actress” so I am not sure why she thinks so highly of herself.
hahah this picture is funny. her quote.. makes me roll my eyes.
I know it’s the actions of a sad, angry moron to insult a celebrity on a reply post, but she takes up enough space on my favorite web site to push me over the edge, so here it goes: I am SO sick of Jessica Alba. She can’t act, hardly ever lands a good film, and every quote I read by her does nothing but justify my feelings about her in general. She has never been perceived as anything but a sex symbol because, well, that’s all she brings to the table. She’s lucky to have even made it in Hollywood frankly. I’ve lived in the LA-area my whole life and beautiful faces are a dime a dozen, and some even have talent! Jessica Alba will never get a role like Natalie Portman, because she can’t carry it! She should just appreciate what she has, because in the words of Jayne Mansfield, ” I don’t see anything wrong with being a sex symbol”.
i used to love Jessica. Long before she became famous. She had some pix in Allure magazine and I thought she was stunning. Then with all the hype and her HUGE ego I was totally turned off. It’s unfortunate. Her personality has made her unattractive:(
So thats why clothes you buy online never fit you like the pictures… Didn’t know they went as far as to Photoshop the clothes too.
Personally, I think she lost all of her sex appeal after she had her daughter, Honor. She was beautiful post-pregnancy when she was a little bit heavier, but then she took it too far and got super skinny. Plus, she boring, soooo boring, and she always wears the same clothes, tights with a long cardigan and combat boots or ballet flats with her hair in a bun and a headband. I think she dresses the best when she’s preggo.
Sex symbol?? Hahaha! It is funny when actresses or models talk about themselves in such a manner.
She is a cute girl but sexy doesn’t come to mind at all.
I don’t see the sex symbol thing but most men I know go stupid about her- normally citing ‘Sin City’, especially her pole dance in chaps. She has an innocent face and is small but curvy… I prefer her real body, I hate photoshopping~ the only people who must feel good about it are the people paid to do it, surely?
So much hate?
Oh please…she gets more obnoxious and self-pitying every day. Her publicist needs to just shut her the f*** up already.
I think her pre-photo shopped photo looks great though Jessica needs to find something to talk about…
I feel like a lot of celebrities just have ‘topics’ they always discuss in interviews and seem to have a very prepared answer bc its the same one almost every time. Sofia vergara has her boobs, jennifer aniston has how one day she really wants to settle down and have kids, angelina jolie has her family/humanitarian work/and how she’ll be taking a break from hollywood, gwenyth paltrow has exercise and diet, and jessica alba has how she’s hott and no one recognizes her true talent because they’re too blinded by her beauty.
I remember when thesuperficial said she had ‘the acting ability of a ham sandwich.’ And that has always stuck with me… Hahaha.
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Not anymore. Does anyone still care about her? And I’m sure because of marriage + kids she’s not considered a sex symbol by the fanboys anymore
She deserves any attention!
well, duh!
sorry but i dont find her skinny figure a sex symbol thing and shes boring no one would call her a sex symbol if she wasnt in Hollywood
She IS being considered a sex symbol though. Everyone always associates her name with her good looks.
You know the world’s coming to an end when they try to make a skinny girl skinnier.
i wish i could put a piece of duct tape……ANYTHING……over her mouth, to shut her up.
She has a point…I don’t think anyone I know has perceived her to be anything but a sex/beauty symbol either, but as others have pointed out, that could be due to her choice in the movies she has participated in.
I don’t know how strongly she was typecast, but I’m sure it wasn’t bad as Hollywood was in the 50′s, meaning if you are a relatively famous celebrity you can choose to do a variety of movie roles. Seems to me like she couldn’t score the big budget “serious” roles, but didn’t want to waste her time with small-budget roles, so she just went for the type cast roles.
And thus she was perceived in a one-dimensional way. There’s plenty of “sex symbols” who have been seen as not just that, such as Angelina Jolie for example. Halle Berry is another one.
I really do think she is beautiful, but. Its like, even though most men think your the sexiest girl in hollywood, your annoying personality balances you out with the rest of the women in the world.
Yes Jessica, maybe because you can’t fu act?
OH my gosh she is SO DUMB. STFU JESSICA ALBA. MAYBE she will read this. Hopefully.
She is so beautiful and has the most fantastic body but she really needs to stop with quotes like these.
in her defense, the questions are probably posed in such a way that there is really no “good” answer. “so jessica, what’s it like being such a sex symbol?” what is an ideal response? “no, i’m not, i’m actually just an average girl.” we’d roll our eyes at that answer, as well. idk, i just feel when it comes to those types of questions, you’re in a damned if you do, damned if you don’t type of situation.
Here she is again… complaining.
I just don’t understand why photos like the original have to be Photoshopped so much (the clothes, her figure). It looked great as it was.
wtf? Well, anyway, agree completely with Lovisa.