Jessica Alba
Alba in 2010
Birth Name: Jessica Marie Alba
Place of Birth: Pomona, Los Angeles, California, United States
Date of Birth: April 28, 1981
Ethnicity:
*father – Mexican [including Spanish, Indigenous Mexican/Mayan, distant Sephardi Jewish and African]
*mother – Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, French
Jessica Alba is an American actress, model, and businessperson. Her roles include the films Camp Nowhere, Idle Hands, Honey, Frank Miller’s Sin City, Fantastic Four (2005), and their respective sequels; Good Luck Chuck, The Eye (2008), Meet Bill, Valentine’s Day, Machete, and its sequel; Little Fockers, Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, and Mechanic: Resurrection, and the series The Secret World of Alex Mack, Dark Angel, and L.A.’s Finest. She has co-founded consumer goods company The Honest Company, which sells baby, personal, and household products. She has also been billed as Jessica Warren, her married name.
Jessica is the daughter of Catherine Louisa (Jensen) and Mark David Alba, who was in the Air Force. Her father, who was born in Los Angeles, is of Mexican descent, including Spanish, Indigenous Mexican/Mayan, and distant Sephardi Jewish and African, roots. Her mother, who was born in Virginia, has Danish, Welsh, English, Scottish, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and French, ancestry. She was raised partly in Biloxi, Mississippi; Del Rio, Texas; and finally Claremont, California, traveling for her father’s career.
Her brother is actor Joshua Alba. Jessica is married to producer Cash Warren, with whom she has three children. Cash’s father is African-American and his mother is white. Jessica’s third cousin, once removed, is writer Gustavo Arellano.
Jessica has described her father as very dark and her mother as very fair. According to Jessica, her grandfather never spoke Spanish at home because he wanted the family to assimilate into the American mainstream. As a result, Jessica’s father did not learn to speak Spanish.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2014) stated that Jessica’s genetic ancestry is:
*72.7% European
*22.5% East Asian/Native American [Indigenous Mexican]
*2.4% No Match
*2.0% Sub-Saharan African
*0.3% Middle Eastern/North African
*0.1% South Asian
Jessica has stated that she identifies with her Mexican-American heritage. DNA tests on the show indicated that Jessica’s direct patrilineal ancestor was Indigenous. These DNA tests also displayed that Jessica’s father’s direct matrilineal ancestor, Maria Carmen Carrillo/Carillo, was of Sephardi Jewish descent. They also showed that Jessica’s father likely has at least 2.1% Sephardi Jewish ancestry in total. DNA matches listed him as 0.7% Ashkenazi; they also listed him as 0.6% Italian, 0.4% North African, and 0.4% Middle Eastern, all of which were or likely were Jewish in his case according to DNA matches.
Jessica’s 0.1% South Asian DNA is evidently from Jessica’s mother’s side.
Genetically, Jessica was found to have a common ancestor with attorney Alan Dershowitz.
Alba with husband Cash Warren in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Jessica’s paternal grandfather is José Sánchez Alba (the son of Catalino Morones Alba and Francisca/Frances Sánchez). José was born in San Bernardino, San Bernardo Co., California, to Mexican parents. Catalino was born in San Dimas, Durango, the son of Ambrocio/Ambrosio Alva/Alba and Maria Morones/Morence. Francisca was born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, the daughter of José Hipólito/Polito Sánchez Hernandez and Refugio/Refugia Cisneroz/Rangel.
Jessica’s paternal grandmother is Ysabel/Isabel Martinez (the daughter of Daniel Fernandez Martinez and Guadalupe Nieves Miranda y Lares). Isabel was born in San Bernardino County, California, to Mexican parents. Daniel was born in Purépero de Echaíz, Michoacán, the son of Eugenio Martinez and Pascuala/Pasquala Fernandez. Guadalupe was born in García, Zacatecas, the daughter of Juan Miranda and Silveria Viramontes/Miramontes y Lares.
Jessica’s maternal grandfather was Harry Christian Jensen, Jr. (the son of Hans/Harry Christian Jensen and Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys). Jessica’s grandfather Harry was born in Rockford, Winnebago, Illinois, and served in WWII and the Korean War. Jessica’s great-grandfather Hans was born in Illinois, to Danish parents, Mads Hansen Jensen and Johanna Jensdatter. Sara was born in Minnesota, to a Welsh father, Samuel H. Rhys, and to a mother, Evaline/Evelyn/Eva Walbridge, who was born in Rochester, Monroe, New York.
Jessica’s maternal grandmother was Louisa Harrison Tebault (the daughter of Paul Miars/Myers Tebault and Catherine/Catharine Louisa Nichols). Jessica’s grandmother Louisa was born in Washington, D.C. Paul was the son of William Paul Tebault and Julia S. Catherine was the daughter of Albert Nichols and Loula Harrison Wharton.
Sources: Genealogies of Jessica Alba – https://www.geni.com
https://famouskin.com
Family histories of Jessica’s father – http://familyhistoryinsider.com
http://familyhistoryinsider.com
Jessica’s maternal grandfather, Harry Christian Jensen, Jr., on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Jessica’s maternal grandfather, Harry Christian Jensen, Jr. – https://www.legacy.com
Jessica’s maternal great-grandmother, Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://www.familysearch.org
Sarah/Sara Evelyn Rhys on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Jessica’s maternal great-grandfather, Paul Miars/Myers Tebault (focusing on his father’s side) – http://www.findagrave.com
LOS ANGELES – APR 1: Jessica Alba at the Victoria Beckham For Target Launch Event at Private Residence on April 1, 2017 in Los Angeles, CA, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Jessica just wants to be “white”. She can’t deny that she’s a Latina. Oh yeah she doesn’t look mix she looks pure Latina she just wants to be white.
Yeh she even draw her hair blonde because she is ashamed of her origin, i hate her she is ashamed of being half Mexican, and the worst of all is that she looks better brunette.
more like shes ashamed to be white. have you seen her on lopez tonight? when george asked her what she thought she mostly was, she said native, but she turned out to be more european than native and she was disappointed. she didnt even know that spain is a white european race/country. also on the tyra banks show, she said she wanted her baby to be brown. NOT WHITE. so what does that tell you,? she would rather be brown/black than white. and dying your hair black doesn’t necessarily mean you want to be ‘more white’ what the hell, really? anyone if she was so desperate to be white, she would have wanted a white baby, with a white baby daddy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZNAqwrm9hY
i mean dying your hair blonde*
She says that because now she’s built a successful career on her ‘latina’ image. I would say at some points in her career she acted pretty wannabe white.
many woman change hair colors
many of my cousins (we are mexican) change their hair color blond all the time and they are not ashame of being mexican
how is that being ashamed of bein mexcan. people change hair color evertime. so just cuz shes HALF mexican doesnt mean she has to be like oh mexican this mexican that.. im half mexican to im not ashamed im aLWAYs going blond. it pisses me of that people say shes ashamed of bien half mexican when shes not ashame. she was brought up like that
Jessica has said that she’s never felt welcome by any race.
She had dated black men, and she dated Derek Jeter for a while. Her husband Cash Warren is half-black, and her father-in-law is Michael Warren who starred as a black cop in Hill Street Blues: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2173931264/tt0081873
when she says shes an american girl shes not denying any thing she just saying that shes american that doesnt mean shes just white
Im mexican 1st generation and i say im american becuase im american becuase i was born here that doesnt mean im white (well my skin is ) im not denying anything at all
I agree. I remember when she was on the George Lopez show and he while he was reading out her ancestry, she had a big sigh of relief when she found out she was 70% white and the rest Mestizo.
On that movie Honey -2003.. She looked mixed wit black.. She ugly on dat pic up there
well she has no black in her. she is just white and native american
This bitch looks Mexican! Fuck. And really being “Latino/ Hispanic” and light skinned i always get the ” what are you mixed with ” shit. Ugh… go to Pomona California and you will find a millio Mexican bitches that look like Jessica Alba.the end.
Uh, yeah. You live in California, basically the Mexico in states. Go to New York and you’ll see a bunch of people who look like the Jersey Shore cast. Go to Florida and you’ll see a bunch of Cubans. Go to California and you’ll see a bunch of Mexicans. Lol
Everyone is saying ” she looks this she looks that” blah blah blah.MY POINT she looks Mexican! Who gives a shit if she’s. 9999906% Indian Spanish or anything else.
she does not look just mexican,she basically looks mixed cuz she is,not just mexican
So basically saying even if she wasn’t Mexican but just because she LOOKS Mexican that automatically makes her Mexican? I’m speaking hypotheticaly. When White & Asian people have kids usually they’ll end up looking Hispanic. I bet if you didn’t KNOW she was part Mexican you wouldn’t be saying shit, because if you started walking around saying she’s Mexican and then turned out not to be you’d look like a complete dumbass.
What fucken planet are you on? Asian/white DO NOT LOOK MEXICAN.Jessica Alba is half Mexican and looks Mexican she does not look mixed and I’m not saying she is JUST Mexican. The broad looks Mexican is my point.take your hypothetical shit and shove it up your incoherent ass.
Bitch please! Me incoherent? You’re fuckin’ ignorant. In case you’ve never seen a Asian/White mixed person they’ll tend to look Hispanic, I’d know since there’s lots of those at my school. When the fuck did I say she’s just Mexican? Uh never. Get your facts straight baby, she looks mixed not your typical Mexican. Please inform me on what charecteristics makes her look Mexican, other then actually being part Mexican. Did you also notice how you’re saying she looks Mexican & that’s YOUR point, not an actual fact?(: Tafuuuk out here.
At your school? Jesus christ child you haven’t even lived life yet, you don’t know shit! Only what you see and read on the internet. You’re a fucktard and don’t know shit. I know plenty of Mexicans that look like Jessica Alba and i know plenty of asain/ whites that look ( big surprise here) asain white! !! :0
I’m going by what I’ve seen and experienced in my life stop living in your fantasy land .there is NO typical Mexican the majority are all mixed ( Spanish/Indian maybe your head was too far up your ass that day in your history class), dip shit. Sooooo going back to you saying she dosent look Mexican is pretty fucken idiotic.
Hmm, you know what’s funny I said they’ll tend and you took as to they all look the same. Read your shit correctly baby(: So you pretty much contradicted yourself, if I ‘live’ in my fantasy land then obviously you do to. You’re just stubborn, admit it. Yet you probably won’t why, because you’re stubborn. Uh last time I checked the two people other then me who commented on said she doesn’t look Mexican, she looks mixed. & I aswell know Mexicasn who look like her but their parents are really good looking. So, we’ll just agree to disagree. Byee(:
Sorry,but she does not look (just) Mexican…Mexicans aren’t look alike.I’ve met Mexicans that were whiter than me,and I met mexicans that look straight up Native American.They can be tall or short.They not all the same,just like not all Germans look the same or Spanish people..etc.So how does Mexicans look like?
thats what im saying who cares what nationality she is and why does it bother people what she says she is or isnt go get a life find something better to do with ur time like i dont know go to school or work or take care of ur families
obvi you dnt have a life if you sat there n read all the shit they wrote , you get a life
I sense some black ancestry through the Mexican side. It was more Africans in Mexico than Spanish at one time.
according to the test no,but that just means it can be old,where it’s there but it’s to low to be read.Or it could be north african,which they don’t count as black,because the people are so mixed blooded up there.Also since the people see themselves as arabs,and not the same as the other black people,even if they look like them
YOU KNOW WHAT THERES A LOT OF MEXICAN GIRLS FROM CENTRAL MEXICO THAT LOOK MORE EUROPEAN AND WHITER THEN JESSICA ALBA OK AND THAT IS A FACT PEOPLE!
True!!
Well, those people would be displaying a lot of Spanish and not Indian. During the 1700’s it was very common to classify how much Spanish and Indian blood you had. If you were half Spanish and half Indian you were a mestizo. From a Spaniard and a mestiza is born a castizo. From an Indian and a mestiza is born a coyote. Finally, a lobo (the result of a union between an Indian man and an African woman) is born a chino.
In Spanish culture (in the Americas at any rate), the darker you were the more lower classed you were. You couldn’t wear certain clothing or have any prominent position. The more Spanish you looked the more educated you were and held in much higher esteem. For those unfamiliar, a true Spaniard is a CeltIberian person. They are a fair skinned (typical European) person. During 711AD, the Moors invaded Spain and they got a lot of Arabian (and possibly black) influence. In 1492, Queen Isabella kicked them out of Spain and the Inquisition was started to rid Spain of any other religion besides Catholicism. They wanted Islam out basically. Some Spaniards did flee Spain when the Moors invaded with many ending up in Ireland. That is what a “black” Irish person is. A mix of a true Spaniard and Irish blood.
To kim
Lets get this straight,The Moors were called that long before they became arab(they were black people).Next there were 7000 thousand warriors that attack Spain.6700 were Ethiopian,which was what the arab armies were made of at that time.The arabs are mutts(no offense).The Arabs you see today are not the same as the ones of the past,they were not whitish looking.I have shown this over and over that the vast majority of moors were black people.Even the law I gave that was put in place to protect them here in the states tells you that(the moor sundry act of 1790).Another thing the word (negro) came to replace the word (moor) for black people,there are also other reasons why this happen,but I won’t say now.Also the spaniards dress up in black face,when they pretent to be the moors,they don’t look like arabs.The (song of roland) tells you who the moor were etc etc etc
Haha, You can’t become Arabs. The moors were north African arabs and berbers that only affected 10% of the population in Spain. During the Spanish inquistion those were expelled from the country or sent to the new world.
Source:
Hispanic studies at Institute of Sweden.
To the unknowing one aka Lies
First you say you can’t become Arab,well how do you think the Arabs did it,or Greeks became Greeks?However that aside,back in the day,it was very simple.Accept the Islamic faith,and be culturally Moslem or Muslim,you don’t have to be it by blood .It’s the same thing with any other religion like (Judaism,which you can convert to).Next they were called moors way back in 46B.C,long before Arab came into the picture.Any Institute that told you other wise,I suggest you get your money back.They were only Arab primarily by culture.Also the Arab army that came slashing through were comprised primarily of Ethiopians(Sudanese).Also they don’t tell you what the Berbers were,they just say berber(as if they were one big group).Now of course your just going to look at the Berbers today,but you don’t think about the past,and how things change.The reason is people don’t think,After feeding you the same nonsense over and over,your trained;and you refuse to accept anything other than what you been taught.Now about this 10%,they only kick out the moors(the ones who were visible Moorish),and the ones who wouldn’t convert.However are you saying that was the only time Africans were in Spain?because that is just ridiculous.
you seem to have alot of time on your hands to be on this like 24/7. everytime i visit this website there is ATLEAST two comment from you in the recent comment section. i get you want to inform people but damn that much, really? does it make a difference in your life if they say incorrect info? let them learn the truth on their own.
To get
Well first if you look at the time,you will see I didn’t come here until 3 am.So that should tell you,I do have other things to do.Also many times in the past,that was not me making those comments.Someone was using my username,and making comments.One other thing,the majority of the comments I do response to are directed to me.You really should thank me instead getting piss.If I didn’t correct people,then they would spread that same dumb junk around over and over.
@get a life:How are you going to priest to him,when I see other people on here far more than him,yet you say nothing to them.Then you say he’s on here 24/7,well how would you know unless your on here 24/7.Also it’s obvious they haven’t learned Jack Sh?t if he has to keep telling them.It just sounds to me like your the one with the problem.you don’t like what he saying then bypass.Man it’s some haters on here.
The word “moor” is probably related to the Greek word “maury” which means “black.
The North Africans were not all “Ethiopian” or “Sudanese.” The Sudan is on the east coast of Africa, closer to the Arabian Peninsula than the Iberian Peninsula. There were dark skinned people in West Africa who served in the Roman government, but North Africa was invaded by the Romans, and so every part of the Mediterranean, including North Africa, south Europe and Palestine, have mixed race people.
She’s North African (Algerian) and she’s “white”,what do you expect in North they’re mixed.They were invaded by Romans and Arabs.You can also find Kabyles,Bedouins and Berbers in North Africa:
http://patoune69.p.a.pic.centerblog.net/s5sfz8wv.jpg
To Me
You misunderstood what was written,I didn’t say north Africans were all Ethiopians.I said the arab army was mainly Ethiopians,and they were the arabs who came into north africa.I do agree that after time North Africa became a highly mixed culture
shes white not moor white