Jessica Alba

“I had to learn how to be a boss... I knew I had that in me.”

I was 26 when I landed my first InStyle cover, in June 2007.It made me feel like I had finally arrived. I was a big fan of the magazine because it made high fashion feel accessible. By that time I’d been in the [entertainment] business for over a decade, but I was still trying to figure out how to be in the public eye and have ownership over who I was. Ninety percent of what people understood about me then came purely from magazine articles, press-tour interviews, and blurbs of gossip.