Jessica Alba

Born an Air Force brat in Pomona, California, Jessica Alba suffered numerous health problems as a child, from collapsed lungs and multiple bouts of pneumonia to asthma and a burst appendix. At 12, she took acting classes, and had an agent nine months later. Her breakthrough role was as the star of James Cameron’s Sci-Fi show Dark Angel. Although the show was cancelled after two seasons, Alba was eventually able to secure starring roles in movies like Honey, Fantastic Four, Sin City, and Into the Blue, in large part due to her stunning good looks. Despite her appearance, Alba is very modest, saying she will never be nude in any movie and even suing Playboy magazine in 2006 when it ran a (clothed) photo of her on the cover—implying, she felt, that she appeared naked inside (she dropped her suit after a personal apology from Hugh Hefner and a large donation was made in her name to one of her favorite charities).