Few believed in her, considering her only a Hollywood beauty, but Jessica Alba shut everyone's mouths by building a business empire worth over a billion dollars from scratch
Her business success started quite by accident and she will probably always remember it because it was all marked by a nasty allergic reaction. The famous Hollywood actress was 27 at the time and was pregnant with her first child when she got a rash after using a well-known cosmetic brand intended for babies. The rest is history
‘In my head, I always thought only of business. And Hollywood was just business for me. I was calculated and I wanted to be taken seriously, as men are taken. I saved money, invested wisely, and found my place in the market. '
Although she got many jobs, except for her acting talent, based on her looks, there are few who knew that Jessica Alba was considered anything but beautiful.
She built her business empire literally from scratch, and today there are few who have not heard of the mega-successful company The Honest. Yet, just like any beginning, hers was extremely difficult and takes us back to 2011, when during her first pregnancy she experienced a severe allergic reaction after using a well-known cosmetic brand.
Jessica Alba, therefore, decided to establish the brand The Honest Company for the production of organic products for children and households, and that it works well is shown by the numbers, but also by the regular inclusion on Forbes' lists of the most successful.
But she herself admitted in her last interview for People magazine that people did not overly believe that a Hollywood sweetheart could achieve such success in the business world. She struggled with prejudice for years, and in the end, she showed them all that anything is possible when it is wanted.
‘I love data and facts and whenever someone comes to my mind and says something isn’t going to be good or that it’s not going to work, I immediately ask a counter-question and ask for an explanation for it. And then the numbers finally arrive and you can 'throw' them in the face of everyone who didn't believe in you, 'said 40-year-old Jessica Alba today, adding that she searched for the perfect partner for a long time and then found him in Brian Lee.
‘The reason I entered the business was primarily a desire to create a safer and healthier world not only for my own but for all the other children. Increased levels of dangerous chemicals in our daily lives have contributed to the development of a number of serious and chronic diseases. I felt it was time for someone to create better products, ones that are safer, non-toxic, healthy, nicely designed, affordable, and easily accessible, 'said Alba long ago, revealing that she never dreamed she would achieve such great success.
'I had great visions, but I had to stand firmly on the ground, even though somewhere in my heart I knew very well that my dream had to come true. In the beginning, it was very difficult, every detail was important, and because of everything I didn't sleep too much, I also worked on weekends and became burdened with everything. '
