Jessica Alba was involved in a head-scratching incident of guerrilla activism in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma last week. Alba somehow met up with an activist named White Mike, who tries to bring awareness to the issue of illegal shark fin hunting, which is wiping out the population of great white sharks. The huge predator is a key part of the oceans’ ecosystems and if the great white shark population is diminished the rest of the oceans, and the planet, will suffer. Alba tried to make this point with White Mike in landlocked Oklahoma City by pasting posters of the menacing-looking sharks on public property and on a billboard for the United Way. The shark posters had no text and could have been advertisements for a film or aquarium. They were pasted on with industrial glue that made the confusing posters hard to remove.

Alba issued an apology after pictures surfaced featuring her posing triumphantly by the posters, and stated in part that she “made a spontaneous and ill-advised decision to let myself get involved with the people behind this campaign.” The police in Oklahoma city said at the time that an investigation was underway, but they announced yesterday that it has been dropped and that no charges will be filed:

Jessica Alba will not face any criminal charges for plastering shark posters all over Oklahoma City on behalf of a conservation group.

“The decision has been made to close the case,” police Sgt. Gary Knight says in a statement. “The case will not be presented to the district attorney’s office.”

Alba found herself in hot water last week when photos surfaced of her papering over a United Way billboard as part of a guerrilla-style campaign for White Mike, an L.A.-based group aiming to raise awareness of the endangered great white shark. She quickly apologized for the “spontaneous and ill-advised stunt.”

The 28-year-old Fantastic Four star could have faced a felony vandalism charge and possible jail time over the incident, but the property owners targeted by Alba and pals declined to press charges. As a result, Knight says there’s no reason to pursue the case.

There has been no comment from Alba’s camp on whether she will pay for the damages.

[From E! Online]

That last sentence is key: “There has been no comment from Alba’s camp on whether she will pay for the damages.” If Alba really wants to make it up to Oklahoma City, she’ll compensate them for having to clean up the posters. It probably would have happened without her involvement, as White Mike has pasted posters in other cities. She brought awareness to it though and it would be wise to make a gesture to show that defacing public property is not acceptable. She could also lend her celebrity to a campaign for the United Way. Maybe she just wants this embarrassing incident to go away, though. The OK City police probably feel the same.

Jessica Alba and her daughter Honor, 1, are shown at LAX on 6/6/09.

Jessica Alba has issued a public statement apologizing for a bizarre act of guerrilla activism in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where she is filming the thriller The Killer Inside Me. Alba used industrial glue to paste posters of great white sharks around downtown Oklahoma City. She then posed for photos standing next to the confusing posters, which were just pictures of scary looking sharks with no message.

Apparently she was trying to help promote shark conservatism in land-locked Oklahoma, which has no great white sharks in any of their aquariums that I could find. Alba’s apology explains that she didn’t think things through and “got involved in something I should have had no part of.”

A red-faced Jessica Alba is apologizing for plastering shark-conservation posters around Oklahoma City - a stunt that sparked a police investigation.

“I got involved in something I should have had no part of,” the “Fantastic Four” actress said in a statement Tuesday.

“I realize that I should have used better judgment and I regret not thinking things through before I made a spontaneous and ill-advised decision to let myself get involved with the people behind this campaign.”
Her mea culpa came after police opened a probe into the giant shark posters and online photos that showed Alba with buckets of glue at the vandalism sites.

“A number of shark posters were placed around downtown with heavy-duty glue, making them darn near impossible to get off,” Sgt. Gary Knight of the Oklahoma City Police told the Daily News on Tuesday.

“It’s basically a vandalism case that could involve our new tagger laws,” he said. “It will be assigned to a detective, and then we’d send it to the District Attorney’s office.”

Knight said the 3-by-2-foot posters of great white sharks were slapped on a bridge, electrical boxes and on a United Way billboard.

He didn’t to identify Alba by name, but a police report clearly describes the photos of Alba that later appeared on a blog for the conservation group White Mike.

A city worker found the group online, and a local news Web site called TheLostOgle.com posted the Alba photos Monday. The photos then disappeared from the White Mike blog.

[From NY Daily News]

Here’s what I think happened - Alba was bored hanging out in Oklahoma city, and met some hot activist guys who convinced her to help them and pose next to the posters while they took her picture. It looks like she got a huge thrill out of it and didn’t realize what the hell she was doing. TMZ has more of her statement, and she added “I sincerely apologize to the citizens of Oklahoma City and to the United Way for my involvement in this incident.” (One of the shark posters was pasted over a United Way advertisement.)

I looked up the guy White Mike who seems to have met up with Alba in Oklahoma City, and he’s been involvedin similar campaigns in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. He says he chose Oklahoma City because “illegal shark fin hunting effects the people of Oklahoma. It affects us all… By some estimates, over 90% of the shark population has been lost in the last 30 years… There is a dire need for us as a human race to try and stop the devastation of the Great White Shark. International pressure is the only way to do it and that starts in Oklahoma, the heartland of America.” It looks like he just got much more attention for his cause, thanks to Jessica Alba not thinking things through.

Photo Credit: The Lost Ogle via D-Listed

Women often have to get pretty hardcore to lose weight after having a baby. And the pressure for celebrities is even greater: they’re expected to drop the pounds in record time. Jessica Alba employed a fairly common weight loss strategy after giving birth to daughter Honor nine months ago. She banned all white food from her diet.

But apparently Jessica has a hard time sticking to the rule if anyone else is allowed to eat so much as a piece of bread. Not only does she refuse to let her husband eat white foods, she’s even barred her mother from enjoying them in her presence.

Jessica Alba keeps her post-baby body slim by avoiding processed foods — and implementing a “white no bite” diet, meaning she eats no white flour or sugar, reports Life & Style.

Alba, who quickly shed the 35 to 40 pounds she gained while pregnant with daughter Honor Marie, now 9 months, is making her whole family follow her strict diet.

“In order for her to stay thin, she needs everyone to be eating how she is,” an insider told Life & Style. “Even at restaurants, Jess will tell her mom to stay away from something.”

[From MSNBC’s The Scoop]

It seems a little of out of line to tell your mother what she can eat in your presence. Or anyone, really. It’s one thing not to keep or serve foods you can’t eat when you’re in your own home. The constant temptation can be too much to handle for some people. But to tell your mom she can’t order what she wants at a restaurant? That’s a bit extreme.

I’m a constant dieter so I completely understand how hard it is to be around the foods you can’t eat. But I tend to remove myself from the situation – like not go out to eat at restaurants and do something else with the person. It’s so unfair to say “I can’t eat this so you can’t either.” I will admit Jessica looks amazing… though I’m guessing she probably eats a lot of meals alone.

Here’s Jessica playing with Honor at Coldwater Park in Beverly Hills yesterday. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Are Jessica Alba and Cash Warren trying for another baby? They are according to the National Enquirer (article via PR Inside), who has a “source” close to the couple claiming that Jess and Cash are “working overtime” to get pregnant again.

Jessica gave birth to baby Honor Marie last June, following one of the biggest, sneakiest shotgun weddings ever. Obviously, whether Jessica and Cash are trying to get pregnant is none of my business. But of course I’m going to chime in. Cash has never seemed that reliable, and Jessica is the breadwinner of the family. Considering that the girl can’t really act, she might want to just get in as many film roles as possible before people get tired of her blinking-masquerading-as-emotion. PR Inside has more:

New mum Jessica Alba loves motherhood so much, she’s reportedly trying for second baby with husband Cash Warren.

The couple welcomed daughter Honor Marie into the world last June (08), and Alba has taken to the role of full time parent.

She has revealed in the past she wants more than one kid, and insiders claim she has put her career on hold to try and conceive in 2009.

A source tells the National Enquirer, “Jessica and Cash are working overtime to get pregnant. She and Cash are boasting that they love being parents and are determined to expand their family as soon as possible.”

From PR Inside

Note by Celebitchy: According to The National Enquirer, Alba wants to get pregnant again before Honor’s first birthday on June 7 and is hoping for another girl. She also wants to continue working throughout her pregnancy but wants to work less overall. Their insider is quoted as saying, “she’d be happy making only one movie a year for the next five years to help her and Cash achieve their goal of having at least four kids.”

Jessica Alba is shown at the premiere of Sugar on 3/18/09 Credit: Juan Rico/Fame Pictures and out with Honor on 3/19/09. Credit: Ghost/Fame Pictures

Jessica Alba has a new interview with Elle Magazine, and The Huffington Post has the highlights. She compares labor contractions to bad period cramps, which will surely make a lot of women bristle, and she also attributes her post-baby figure to wearing a girdle. Alba does admit to working out hard ahead of her Campari campaign, in which her very small hips were airbrushed out anyway, and says that she hasn’t worked out since:

-On giving birth: “Contractions aren’t that bad. If you’ve ever had bad cramps? That’s what they’re like. But that moment when they put the baby on your chest - that’s deep. It’s a deep experience.”

-On snapping back into shape so quickly after giving birth: “I did it for the Campari job. [The workouts] were horrible. I cried. And I haven’t worked out since.”

-Her secret to looking slim after giving birth: “I wore a girdle. Eight weeks after my girlfriend had her baby, you could see her six-pack. She told me to put an elastic band around my waist - any kind of band or girdle works. She was like, “I slept in it.” I didn’t recover as fast as she did. I don’t have a six-pack - that’s just not my body at all.”

-On having an exotic look: “Anyone who’s part of pop culture is going to be sensationalized and spun into something, some one-liner. Also, there aren’t many other stars, besides Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez, who most people in the world can related to. We look like people of the world - I can kind of mix in with girls in Asia, South America, Europe.”

[From Elle via The Huffington Post]

Jessica’s trainer was pretty open about the routine and diet she followed after she had Honor last Jine. He said she did an hour workout 5-6 days a week and was on a reasonable 1700 calorie a day diet. He claimed she burned 600 calories in her workout, which means she was probably working her butt off. That guy must have been a drill sergeant. It’s surprising that she doesn’t exercise now, though, as she used to go to the gym all the time before Honor was born.

As for Alba’s claim that contractions are like period cramps, I’ve never had a monthly visit like that before and I would never want one. I did one of those non-medicated births and my labor wasn’t awful or anything, just way more than regular cramps. It’s probably a lot different if you get an epidural. She sounds kind of dumb the way she explains it, like labor and pushing are not so bad, then “it’s deep,” when you get to see your baby for the first time. Maybe I’m judging her from my experience, which was pretty intense. Maybe I’ll get an epidural next time if makes it feel like bad period cramps.

Jessica Alba is shown out with her daughter Honor on 1/28 and 1/31/09. Credit: WENN

Last week Jessica Alba made the mistake of telling a reporter, “Be neutral! Be Sweden about it!”. I say she made a mistake not because she was technically incorrect, but because it’s started a whole e-feud over the accuracy of her comments. Which has expanded into an argument over what she likely meant by the comments, which is something only Jessica knows.

The common phrase is to be neutral like Switzerland – which hasn’t been involved in a war since 1815. Never have I heard someone say “like Sweden,” – though they were neutral during World War II. When I first heard the quote, I tried to give Jessica the benefit of the doubt and consider that she might have just chosen an unusual country for her example. And that’s what she’s still claiming.

Jessica Alba is disappointed in all of us for paying attention to her during what she blogs is “perhaps the most salient time in our country’s history.” (Don’t worry, Jess, we’re more disappointed in ourselves than you’ll ever know.)

She’s speaking, of course about the “a-hole” episode, when Jessica called out Bill O’Reilly and then harassed a reporter who didn’t want to answer her questions—taunting him with “Be neutral about it, be Sweden!” This, of course, gave TMZ a chance to call her a ditz for not saying Switzerland.

But Jess isn’t going to sit around and let people call her stupid, especially when Wikipedia and MySpace exist to clear her name. This is her defense of giving Sweden the neutral shout-out:

“Last week, Mr. Bill O’Reilly and some really classy sites (i.e.TMZ) insinuated I was dumb by claiming Sweden was a neutral country. I appreciate the fact that he is a news anchor and that gossip sites are inundated with intelligent reporting, but seriously people…it’s so sad to me that you think the only neutral country during WWII was Switzerland. Check out: [Wikipedia link] if you want to see what I was referring to. I appreciate the name calling and the accurate reporting. Keep it up!!”

Well, we can’t argue with Wikipedia. You win, Jess. You’re totally smarter than TMZ.

[From E! News via Jessica Alba’s MySpace blog]

However TMZ actually makes a really good argument against Jessica. And I hate to ever agree with TMZ… though I generally don’t like to agree with Jessica Alba either. And I really hate to give Bill O’Reilly any more fodder. Rock/hard place/me.

Jessica Alba is fuming at TMZ for calling her dumb when she called Sweden a “neutral” country last week … even though it currently has troops in Afghanistan.

She is absolutely correct. Sweden was a neutral country … 60 years ago.

Even though she was engaged in a debate about the current political situation in America when she advised a reporter to “Be Sweden … be neutral” — Alba is swinging back at critics, like TMZ, on her blog saying, “It’s so sad to me that you think the only neutral country during WWII was Switzerland.”

She is absolutely correct — when the Nazis were waging war on anyone who opposed Hitler’s evil rule, Sweden remained neutral and stayed out of the war. After the war, Winston Churchill referred to Sweden as “that small, coward country.”

We apologize for not considering the political climate of the world in 1942 when we suggested she may have meant, “Be Switzerland” — a country that is currently neutral.

Our sincerest apologies.

[From TMZ]

Damn you TMZ! Clearly they brought in one of their smarter people to write this argument, since it’s thought out much better than their usual drivel. I really can’t argue with it. If you want to talk about a country that’s been neutral for almost two hundred years – and that’s also the country that’s always referenced in the “neutral like…” comparison, then you’d say Switzerland. And it’s the country that’s still neutral.

If you want to reference a country that was neutral during World War II, then you could say Switzerland or Sweden. But Sweden still wouldn’t be your best bet, because they’re currently involved in the Middle East. And Jessica didn’t say anything about WWII in her comment.

Maybe she really did remember that Sweden was neutral during World War II, but that would easily be the greatest display of celebrity intelligence in the last ten years. Though she did use the word “salient”… so who knows. I think in all likelihood Jessica mixed up her countries, yet managed to do it well enough that she could still argue about it. Next time, I’d tell Fox News to keep on walking.

Here’s Jessica enjoying a day in the park in L.A. with daughter Honor on Sunday. Images thanks to WENN.

Jessica Alba has never been a fan of the paparazzi. In fact she’s been known to go off on them and generally freak out in their direction whenever possible. And while a little of that is understandable, generally speaking she takes it to a new level, and has insighted a lot of internet hatred for it. Last night Jessica decided to turn the table on a reporter who was asking her questions she didn’t want to answer. When he said he didn’t think he should answer her political questions, she told him to be neutral like Sweden.

It’s a blessing Jessica Alba made a career out of wearing bathing suits and spandex in terrible movies, because homegirl would’ve made a horrible and embarrassing journalist. (Although her bank account probably isn’t crying any tears she chose “acting”)

At some Inaugural party in D.C., (where thankfully Alba knew it was Obama she was supporting) she tried to get all Snarky McSnark on a journalist who just wanted a low-maintenance sound bite from the actress. Check out the video on TMZ.com here.

Instead she cut him off immediately and said: “Can I ask you a question? This is for my blog.” and whipped out her phone and started taping. (Jessica Alba has a blog? HA!)

“What do you think is Barack’s greatest characteristic going into office?” she said.

When the shaken journalist said it was probably best he didn’t answer — seeing as he’s on the clock and all — Alba tried to make a funny and said:

“Be neutral! Be Sweden about it!”

The journalist was a gentleman and too polite to bother correcting her, but we’re not. It’s Switzerland, Jessica. Switzerland. In her defense, both countries do start with the letter “S” and they’re both in Europe. At least she didn’t say Sudan. Or Singapore.

[From A Socialite’s Life via Gossip Rocks]

A Socialite’s Life quickly cleared up their error in thinking that Jessica should have said the more commonly referenced Switzerland, because Sweden was also neutral during World War II. So instead of initially thinking Jessica made a major blunder, she actually should be getting some serious points for remembering – and referencing - something a lot of us forget.

I’m really curious about this supposed blog she has. Something tells me it was more a quick invention to prove her point than anything she’s actually planning on creating. While I hate to say it, Jessica Alba is growing on me in little bits.

Here’s Jessica Alba leaving the Huffington Post’s Inaugural Ball on Monday night. Images thanks to Splash.

Jessica Alba isn’t one of my favorite celebrities, but I like her a hell of a lot more after she said exactly what she thinks about Bill O’Reilly. On Sunday night she was at the Declare Yourself ‘A New Birth of Citizenship’ Inauguration kick-off event, where some Fox News goons came up to her and started prattling on about republicans and Fox and former President Bush.

Alba was clearly trying to be polite when they asked her if she had any words for Bush, to which she replied “Goodbye!” with a huge grin on her face. But then they decided to push her even more and asked Alba if she had any words for Bill O’Reilly. And then she called him an a-hole, and all was right with the world.

Jessica Alba, attending one of the Inaugural shindigs, was the victim of one of those Fox News ambush crews that wanders events where liberals are numerous and tries to get them to say something dumb so Bill O’Reilly can make fun of them later. She told them exactly what she thinks of Bill O’Reilly.

Reporter: Bill O’Reilly says hi. You wanna give him a Factor Inauguration Shout Out?

Alba: No. He’s kind of — [Laughs] He’s kind of an a-hole.

As is their SOP, the crew badgered her to give examples. (Examples? You want examples? We gotcher examples right here, dude.) And she was smart enough not to take the bait:

Reporter: How so?

Alba: I don’t know how he does it. I guess he was just born that way, for some reason.

Reporter: Can you give me an example? Come on.

Alba: No, because that means admitting that I actually have watched Fox.

Of course, O’Reilly showed off this clip proudly and smugly, no doubt to show his audience how “nasty” those Hollywood liberals are. Not that any of them have ever been caught wishing publicly for a terrorist attack on San Francisco, but hey. Nasty is in the eye of the media-megaphone holder.

[From Crooks and Liars]

Good for her. O’Reilly, of course, showed the clip and tried to act all smug and superior about it, though it was unclear what he felt smug and superior about. An actress hates you… as do a lot of people… and you’re right and better than everyone else how? It definitely wasn’t one of O’Reilly’s better arguments. But kudos to Jessica for saying what she thought. And when you watch the video, she actually said it quite nicely, everything considered.

Thanks to TMZ for the story idea.

Here’s Jessica at the Declare Yourself ‘A New Birth of Citizenship’ Inauguration kick-off event in Washington DC on Sunday. Images thanks to WENN.

Jessica Alba is gorgeous and super-fit on an average day, but she’s far from all natural on the pages of the upcoming Campari calendar. As the Daily Mail points out, you can tell that there’s some substantial airbrushing going on when you compare photos from the shoot that day with the final product. Alba’s hips were made even more slender, her waist and stomach were smoothed and her boobs were made more buoyant. We all know it happens, but it’s still interesting to see perfectly gorgeous photos get enhanced to the point of Disney level perfection.

Here are the photos, shot by Mario Testino via Superior pics.

Jessica Alba graces every month of the new Campari calendar, posing seductively in black evening gowns and bathing suits while clutching the apertif. Looking like a 40s pinup with a considerable buzz, Alba is surrounded by interchangeable dark-haired admirers who seem ready to pounce once she gets drunk enough. Given her acting abilities I would guess that her half-lidded look can be attributed to sipping the props for the photo shoot.

Alba, 27, has a six month old daughter, Honor Marie Warren, and says her life at home is less than glamorous:

Jessica Alba shows off her body-after-baby in the 2009 Campari calendar, and PEOPLE has a sneak peek of the pictures that the actress says allowed her “play out this sort of bombshell.”

“I’m usually walking around in comfy clothes, with a baby on my arm,” says Alba, 27, who welcomed daughter Honor Marie Warren in June, “and it’s nice to dress things up and feel sophisticated, sexy, and surrounded by so much beauty.”

Campari is printing only 9,999 copies of the calendar featuring photos of Alba in swimsuits, high heels and evening wear. The calendar will be distributed at the end of the year.

[From People.com]

The photos, shown below, are shot by famed Peruvian photographer Mario Testino, who has worked with many celebrities, fashion houses and high-end magazines throughout his career. Alba does look beautiful and classy in a wasted kind of way.