Jessica Alba On Motherhood And Overcoming Her Traumatic Past

As a sickly child, Jessica Alba saw Hollywood as the place where she could dream and be anyone she wanted to be. And indeed, she’s now in her happy place, with a new kickass TV role, mega-successful business, and family she completely adores

- Jenny Cooney

Jessica Alba had recently given birth to her third child and taken along-acting hiatus when she heard about plans to make the female-driven TV action series, LA’s Finest.

“I stopped working for a while as an actress, because I was focused on my business and family,” says the famous founder of The Honest Company, a successful consumer goods company specialising in safe and effective baby and beauty products. “I was waiting for the thing that just felt right in my gut to pull me back into entertainment, and I’d been offered many things in television before but it just never really sat right.”

Then came a call from her friend, actress Gabrielle Union, who wanted to revive her own badass role from the Bad Boys films starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence and create a TV spin-off featuring two female detectives in the lead roles, pursuing some of LA’s baddest. “It felt right to 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.”

Bad Girls On Set

In the new series, Gabrielle Union’s Syd – an undercover DEA agent who was the sister of Detective Lieutenant Marcus Burnett (a role Martin Lawrence made famous) and girlfriend of his partner, Mike Lowrey (originally played by Will Smith) – is now single with an active dating life.