Before she could legally order a drink, Jessica Alba was already leading prime time. At 19, she powered Dark Angel, which launched on Fox in October 2000 with a $10 million pilot. Risky? Sure. It paid off. As Max Guevara, she flipped bikes, traded punches, and earned a Golden Globe nomination while most teens worried about rent deposits and ramen budgets.
Twenty-five years later, the wild part isn’t that people still talk about Dark Angel. It’s that Alba, now in her 40s, still looks like she could step back into that role tomorrow. Great genes help, sure. Discipline does more. She’s open about hydration being non-negotiable. “Hydration is where it’s at when it comes to my skincare routine,” she told E! News, explaining how she layers moisturizers when seasons shift.
She’s just as direct about confidence. “I understand what feeling powerful from a woman’s point of view means,” she told The Cut. “It has nothing to do with whether someone desires you.” That mindset shows up everywhere. Red carpets. Instagram. Even a fresh tattoo she revealed on February 26, weeks after filing for divorce from Cash Warren. The ink reads, “Life is transformation is life.”
Alba met Warren on the set of Fantastic Four in 2004. He was a director’s assistant. They married in 2008 and raised three kids together: Honor, now 16, Haven, 13, and Hayes, 7. She filed for divorce in February 2025, making it clear the priority hasn’t shifted. “We are moving forward with love, kindness and respect for each other and will forever be family,” she wrote.
If acting made her famous, business earned her respect. She co-founded The Honest Company in 2011 after a rash during her first pregnancy sent her searching for safer products. People didn’t take her seriously. “People just saw me as a girl in a bikini in movies kicking butts,” she said at Forbes’ Women’s Summit. Pushback sharpened her focus. “I needed people telling me no.”
She still hasn’t ruled out a Dark Angel return either. Asked if she’d give it another go, Alba didn’t dodge it. “If [James Cameron] wanted to do Dark Angel, I would do Dark Angel again.”
Jessica Alba popped up in Bad Bunny’s casita during the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show, and it didn’t feel like a random celeb walk-on still. She hit the stage with fellow casita dancers Pedro Pascal, Karol G, Alex Earle, Cardi B and more, then dropped a video montage the next day like, yes, this really happened. Alba wrote, “What an honor to be part of such an extraordinary moment in history… Joy you could feel. Pride you could see,” then added, “Yesterday was bigger than a performance. It was Dignity. Inclusion. Unity. Representation. And Love.” She also pointed at the engine behind it all: “Benito ‘Bad Bunny’ tells stories rooted in his culture, his people, and his truth – and yesterday, those stories were centered on one of the biggest stages in the world,” before landing the line you can’t ignore: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”
Watch the video of Jessica Alba at the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show below.
It’s been 25 years, but Jessica Alba is just as beautiful as she’s ever been, and now she’s got receipts for everything else you didn’t think she was capable of.
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