Jessica Alba is fantastic, both
on-screen and off. But when she's in Miami, she just wants to
be an Invisible Woman.
Jessica Alba is already envisioning retirement: a drink in one
hand, a book in the other, her famous bod in a lounge chair on
South Beach in Miami (pictured above), the city she's come to love
like a second home. "I'll definitely retire there," she says,
adding that she's already been scouting
real estate, specifically a
condo either in the residential section of the
W Hotel or in a new
high-rise called 900 Biscayne Bay.
For Alba, at 24, retirement seems very far away. But she tends to
do things quickly, in two short years going from headlining her own
TV series,
Dark Angel (created by no less than Jim Cameron,
who helmed the blockbuster
Titanic), to reducing Bruce
Willis to ruin as a smoldering femme fatale in the recent film
Sin City. She's still on the go: This month, Alba stars as
superhero Susan Storm/the Invisible Woman in Fantastic Four, the
long-awaited film version of the longest-running comic book series
in history.
It's always been this way for the Mexican-French-English-Danish
daughter of an
Air Force officer who moved his family from
California to
Mississippi to
Texas and back to
California again.
Alba dreamed of becoming an actress at age five. Months after
attending her first acting class, she landed a part on a TV series
at 13. It was filmed partly in Miami, where she went to live while
shooting the pilot and the first few episodes with her mother,
brother, and tutor in tow. Her star was a well-muscled hunk named
Flipper.
Flipper wrapped, but Alba's love affair with Miami didn't.
These days, she gets back as often as she can. And have no doubt:
She'll eventually move there. But in the meantime, here's where
you'll find Alba until she hits retirement age.