'Everyone Assumes I Should Be Naked ' ; Jessica Alba, Hollywood's Hottest New Sex Symbol, Talks to Rebecca Hardy About Her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Why She Refuses to Strip for the Cameras and Her Latest Role As a Comic-Book Superhero in the Summer Blockbuster Fantastic Four

Mail on Sunday › July 05, 2005

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Jessica Alba was an obsessive compulsive child.

She'd switch off a light if it was left on for second, unplug everything in the house, organise and worry. Her childhood was ruined by an unstoppable stream of 'what ifs'.

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'Everyone Assumes I Should Be Naked ' ; Jessica Alba, Hollywood's Hottest New Sex Symbol, Talks to Rebecca Hardy About Her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Why She Refuses to Strip for the Cameras and Her Latest Role As a Comic-Book Superhero in the Summer Blockbuster Fantastic Four

'I was a worrier,' she says. 'I'd worry that there was going to be a fire.

I'd worry about my problems and everyone else's problems.' She also suffered from chronic asthma, was neurotic and an insomniac.

Obsessive compulsive disorder is common to those who feel unable to control life about them. Alba's childhood was chaotic: parents who married too young and, unforgivably at that time, outside their ethnic group (her father, Mark, is Mexican, her mother, Cathy, is Danish); a childhood spent in numerous homes as her father's job in the US Air Force took them across America; and le...

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