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Jessica Alba says she hates to hear 'no'

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Updated: 2007-05-23 16:01





Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba - ranked No. 2 on this year's "Hot 100" list by Maxim
magazine - has a rebellious side.

"I love challenging authority," the 26-year-old actress tells InStyle in
its June issue, on newsstands Friday. "It probably wasn't easy being my
parents. The second somebody says `no' to me is the second I'm going to
jump up and say `yes!'"

Alba, whose screen credits include "Sin City" and "Into the Blue,"
reprises her role as Susan Storm/Invisible Woman in "Fantastic Four: Rise
of the Silver Surfer," set for release June 15.

"My experience in this business is that if people think you're going to
put people in seats because you have a fan base, it's more important than
anything," she says.

She's finally "getting to play characters and dive into things and not
just be sort of this version of `this girl,'" says Alba, who found she
was typecast as "some kind of little tart."

"Because obviously, if you have a womanly figure, you're not allowed to
have a brain or any idea of the world whatsoever. You just have to be hot
and use your body to get ahead."

But that body helped win her countless male fans, and, in turn, increased
her value to movie producers and casting directors.

"I had womanly curves at a young age," says Alba, who starred as a mean
high school student in 1999's "Never Been Kissed." "Usually kid actors
are a few years older than the roles they play. I was two or three years
younger."

"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer," a Twentieth Century Fox
release, also stars Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis.










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