Jessica Alba Doesn’t Like Being Lumped

In her interview in Allure magazine, Jessica Alba joined the group of female celebrities with thriving merchandising businesses trying not to be lumped into the group of female celebrities with thriving merchandising businesses because that’s sexist. Gwyneth Paltrow recently upped the ante and used the term misogynistic to describe how the media lumps she and Alba and Reese Witherspoon and Blake Lively all together even though their business ventures are completely different if you are willing to engage in micro-nuance.

Jessica, especially, who’s a friend of mine—our businesses could not be more different. There’s not a lifestyle piece to her business. The fundamentals of our sites are very different. Reese launched—our businesses have similarities, but hers has retail. People are grasping at straws to tie us together and I get it, because it makes a good story, but I’m slightly offended by this sort of generalization that happens with myself and Jessica and Reese and Blake.

I don’t know. You all sell overpriced trendy celebrity promoted products to Westside mommies. I guess to some people there’s a difference between mall department stores. Not to anybody with a dick. Alba herself points out that nobody in the media lumps together Justin Timberlake and Ashton Kutcher despite the fact the former owns a piece of MySpace and the latter invests in skateboard companies led by young women he fucks while his life partner is pregnant. That does seem unfair if you happen to be making fifty million a year selling cute hemp diapers to upper middle class white women and you feel like you still have the right to complain.

The only truly memorable note from Jessica Alba’s interview comes when she declares she will never go nude onscreen because there’s no evidence how this would make her performances or the movies any better. In case you were wondering just how close Alba is to a total lack of self-awareness.

Photo Credit: Allure Magazine