Why You Don't Hear From Jessica Alba Anymore

In the '00s, Jessica Alba was one of the hottest (thermonuclear, really) actresses in Hollywood, both physically and professionally. She was breathtakingly gorgeous yet still relatable to a female audience. During this time, her career was at its apex, as she bagged roles in big-budget comic book flicks and rom-coms. But at the end of the aughts and into the 2010s, Alba's film career cooled down significantly. So why don't you hear from her that much or see her on the big screen anymore? There's actually a bunch of really good (and lucrative) reasons why Alba isn't taking major acting roles anymore. Nevertheless, she still has plenty of major projects going on and is a big source of inspiration for enterprising and ambitious women.

Alba didn't marry a co-star, a fellow actor, or an A-lister. She swapped vows with regular guy Cash Warren, who is a quite a hunk despite his respectable status as an average dude. They have since settled into their domesticity. While you often see Alba out and about with their daughters in L.A., she was never much of a Hollywood nightlifer, a la Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton. Even in her younger days, she wasn't all about the scene or being seen! That has since carried over into her rather secretive life as a married adult.

Here's the biggest reason for her retreat from film. Alba's The Honest Company, which manufactures safe household products for babies and children, is expanding into the cosmetics realm with Honest Beauty. The brand has been valued as a billion dollar company, earning the ever-elusive unicorn status in the startup world, according to Vanity Fair. The Honest Co. is majorly successful. Alba doesn't need to take acting gigs anymore or deal with diminishing roles due to the up-and-coming generation stealing her thunder as her company is on the rise. Alba's peers, such as Blake Lively and Reese Witherspoon, are trying their hand at lifestyle branding, and they need to take their page out of Alba's book if they hope to succeed.

Alba is always careful about her image, refusing to be spotlighted just for her face or her body, even though she is a quite a looker. She is over that whole hot chick image and transitioned to being a businesswoman and entrepreneur. According to a Vanity Fair feature about her lucrative business empire, Alba once told her publicist that for every feature she booked in a men's magazine, she wanted it to match three features in women's publications.