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Jessica Alba's blonde power

Jessica Alba, who recently gave birth to her first daughter with husband Cash Warren, has revealed she was chatted up more when she had blonde hair.

Jessica Alba was chatted up more when she was blonde.

The 27-year-old actress says she never had more male attention than when she dyed her hair blonde for her role as stripper Nancy Callahan in 2005 movie 'Sin City'.

She said: "When I went blonde for 'Sin City' three years ago, I swear I've never had more male attention. I'd go to a bar and all these Arab Princes and much older men would want to buy me a drink - I'm talking guys in their 80s!"

Jessica also revealed her on-screen image is very different to her real-life character.

She added to Cosmopolitan magazine: "I'm a total nerd at heart. If I'm not working I spend the whole day in my pyjamas. I've never been desperate to be out there at parties, or to be playing the dating game."

Jessica Alba is best known as TV's Dark Angel (2000-02, produced by James Cameron) and as Sue Storm in the movie version of The Fantastic Four (2005, starring Michael Chiklis). Alba began working in front of the camera in the mid-1990s, appearing in television commercials and small roles in feature films.

She had a recurring role in the Nickelodeon series The Secret World of Alex Mack, followed by her first starring role in the 1995 series Flipper. She scored a double whammy in 1999 with appearances in the teen-friendly films Never Been Kissed and Idle Hands, and filmmaker Cameron cast her as the title lead in his TV project Dark Angel.

Since then she has worked mostly in feature films, usually playing a tough-but-vulnerable babe, as in Honey (2003, with Lil' Romeo) and in the film version of Frank Miller's Sin City (2005, with Bruce Willis). Alba's other films include The Sleeping Dictionary (2003), the ocean-diving suspense film Into the Blue (2005, with Paul Walker), the Fantastic Four sequel Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), and a role as a klutzy penguin-keeper in Good Luck Chuck (2007).

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