Jessica Alba is the featured covergil of Latina's March 2008 issue. In the interview, Jessica talks about her pregnancy and her place in the Latin community.
Some hightlights:
On what she wants her baby to look like:
"I'm excited for my baby to be brown. I just have to believe the dark gene is going to survive. Cash and I are like, please!"
On not learning to speak Spanish as a child:
"I wish to God that my dad spoke Spanish to my brother and me, but he didn't grow up with it."
On confusing other men for her dad as a kid:
"When I was little, I used to go up to black men and hold their legs, thinking it was my dad all the time. I'd wrap my arms around them, then look up and be like, 'Oh my God!'"
On finding her own place in Hollywood:
"I was always trying to figure out: How the hell am I going to be mainstream? How are people going to accept me? When are the going to get a clue that I am American, that this is what America looks like--people like me who are mixed, have different blood, mixed with different ethnicities? When are the people who are hiring for these jobs and writing these screenplays going to realize that?"
On her reluctance to walk the red carpet at Latin events:
"I'll support those shows, but I can't go on the press lines and have people make me feel bad about myself. Life is too short. I can't change how I grew up, and I shouldn't have to apologize for it. I know I feel close to the Latin community, because that's what I grew up with."
Check out the March issue of Latina for the complete interview.
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