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As a sickly child,

Jessica Alba saw essica Alba had recently given birth to her third child and taken a
Hollywood as the long acting hiatus when she heard about plans to make the female-

place where she driven TV action series, LA’s Finest.
“I stopped working for a while as an actress, because I was
could dream and be focused on my business and family,” says the famous founder of

anyone she wanted The Honest Company, a successful consumer goods company
to be. And indeed, specialising in safe and effective baby and beauty products. “I

she’s now in her was waiting for the thing that just felt right in my gut to pull me back into

happy place, with a entertainment, and I’d been offered many things in television before but it
just never really sat right.”
new kickass TV role, Then came a call from her friend, actress Gabrielle Union, who wanted

mega-successful to revive her own badass role from the Bad Boys films starring Will Smith
business, and family and Martin Lawrence and create a TV spin-off featuring two female

she completely detectives in the lead roles, pursuing some of LA’s baddest. “It felt right to
adores do a two-hander,” Alba recalls of the conversation. “It felt right for it to be
action and it felt right for it to have that Jerry Bruckheimer brand behind it
but mostly I said yes because Gab was behind it as the creator and I knew
we’d have a respectful relationship on set and she wanted me to help create
my character alongside her.”