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
Alba you need a reality check your half mexican whether your not the happiest about it because your half latina is who you are & if you dont like it then Alba you dont like yourself. I for one is half mexican,45% puerto rican, & recently found out i have some italian(5%) & even though that italian is only 5% i am proud of it because if I were to dislike it then I would dislike 5% of myself just for a nationality. I think Alba needs to relize that & not knowing spanish is no excuse. Selena Gomez knows barely any Spanish & shes half mexican but shes proud of her heritage everybody she be proud of their heritage because its who they are & where they came from whether your white, black, hispanic, or asian. :)
Hey, she was found to be 93% European on her DNA test. I don’t know why people are getting so mad. George stopped doing the test after her results. (I like that segment and wish he had kept it) Mexican is an ethnicity so DNA test can’t pick that up I guess. She was 4% Native and 3% Asian. (I don’t really remember but 7% isn’t enough to say Mestizo. She’s an Ayran person of Spanish decent.
I wonder why people do this kind of thing. Not only do they take those percentages as gospel, but as in your case use completely different percentages. She tested 87% European and 13% Indigenous American, but no East Asian or Sub Saharan African.
This test is not accurate.
The SSA test is the most dubious of all, since most of the companies uses a set of data obtained from a group of Yoruba people, who are really a very small subset of Africans. The Yoruba will closely resemble the first slaves brought to the USA, since they came from West Africa, but many of the later slaves came from elsewhere, not to mention that other African descended people ,with no ties to West Africa or the USA, sometimes tests really oddly in all the tests which are available at this time. This is something which applies to all tests which you can take at the moment.
The problem is the simplistic reference groups they use, which are based on the idea of discrete races. They don’t use racial labels, but the way they do it, the way they use specific macro groups, shows that they actually uses racialist ideas in their tests – I presume because that’s what the buying public demands. However, that does not correlate with the genetic reality. You can define human clusters in any which way you want -obviously local people cluster closely together compared with more distant people. None of the current DNA testing companies uses satisfactory groupings. I’m not even sure if that’s possible at all.
So, in other words, this kind of testing, when the results are interpreted like this, as a four race type result, it won’t show the true percentages, unless the ancestors are identical with the reference groups, which is pretty unlikely.
The percentages also does not consider the actual genes involved – sometimes certain markers are associated with certain genes – but overall, the tests does not show your “race” by percentage, and it also does not correlate with “blood quantum” due to the way we inherit genes. You have to understand something about genetics in order to understand this, but generally, if you’re quarter Native American, that does NOT mean that 25% of your genes comes from that Native American ancestor. Genes and Chromosomes are not inherited in equal amounts from all ancestors.
Ps, in the case of Alba, the test may give false results simply because of the segmentation of the DNA – the test they used uses few markers (unlike, say, 23andMe) which is a real problem with multi generational inheritance like in the case with Mestizo people of Mexico – the European and Native American DNA is chopped up into small segments, simply because the European and Native American DNA is inherited through many generations and from many, many ancestors. This will fool a test which uses too few “markers” which is the case with the specific test used. It can weight the test towards the bigger contributor, if there’s a big difference between them.
Well, she’s doesn’t consider her self mexican, however she looks like one and have you seen her Dad, well she really looks like a fool for it and its fine she goes for what her Mother is French. I wasnt born in Mexico, but both of my Parents’ did, therefore that makes me Mexican. Here are some talented people who also werent born in Mexico, but know about their roots, Selena Gomez, Eva Langoria, even Demi Lovato, but who cares, We have so many talented beauty in our country look into it- Salma Hayek, Bibi Gaytan, Thalia, Paulina Rubio, Blanca Soto, etc. At the end we r all Humans (yey for all humans in this planet we r all beautiful!!
Looks like a Mestizo/ European mix > IS a Mestizo/European mix.
I don’t see what all the fuss is about -_- I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen a fairly common mix like this and then read the comments where it ventures off into “BLAH BLAH PART BLACK!” – “BLAH BLAH THEY’RE ASHAMED!” Stuff’s hilarious XD
I don’t know whats the problem with being black. We are tired of the dumb standards on earth that white is better or any other race is better than black only because they’re different in looks, thats very stupid, and there will be a time and a place for those who Ridicule, harm, mock and manipulate black people, wait for it. why is it so bad to be black on earth, you treat them like there a horrible disease or something. “black dirty, black ugly, black this, black that, black, black, black”. who set the standard that tarnish their image?! for all the hurt and embarrassment, there has to be something very good thats going to happen for them, for being so hated on earth. Everybody in this cursed world originated from Blacks so hating them is like hating on your parents. Respect and you’ll get Respect back!!
there is something very good that has already happend. god blessed them with being nba players and rappers.
Basketball players and rappers!!!! Exactly what the comment was talking about people like you mocking and ridiculing a certain people. Your not funny you’ll be with that group when they get punish. Trust! noboby can go through all that and not get something great in the after life. What? you think the racist and rich are gonna be rewarded. your just trying to get a brunch of stereotyping racist attention so they would give you thumbs up. its all about racism psychology.
She hates being Mexican, I don’t why people keep bullsh-tting around it.
kelsey,its not that she hates being mexican,its that she hates being told she is only mexican,she speaks no spanish,so she cant embrace a culture she knows nothing about,she was born in america,so shes american,why can people just let her be,no tells an a man with an irish last name,hes not american,because he was born here,the same goes for her,just let her be american
Born in America? You know Mexico and Canada are in “America” also….Be more specific.
in the olympics,when they announce team usa neither mexico nor canada start walking do they?
Her father is mestizo, that means he is mixed heavily between native and european. He has very little “mexican” blood, so why would she consider herself when her own father had so little Mexican in him? Her mother is straight up white, she aint hatin’ she aint Mexican. Look I’m a third mexican, alba doesn’t look mexican at all. Never has. What’s the fuss about? Its almost like Mexicans want her to be mexican so bad but she isn’t. Why hate a girl for being different? She is still beautiful damn