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JESSICA ALBA’S BILLION-DOLLAR EMPIRE ‘No-one believed I could do it’

“I want to wake up every day excited to live my life. It doesn’t energise me to hurt people”

There’s a home video of 7-year-old Jessica Alba going to Disneyland with her family. Looking sweetly into the camera, she firmly declares, “I’m a feminist, and I don’t need a man for nothing.” It’s a mantra that has served the now 40-year-old actress and entrepreneur well over the years.

From acting and producing in Hollywood to running her baby-product and beauty brand the Honest Company to raising her kids Honor, 13, Haven, 10, and Hayes, 3, with husband Cash Warren, 42, Alba has always dreamed big and had a plan. “I think I came into the world with a very strategic mindset about anything that I wanted to do,” she

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