Justin Timberlake says Jessica Alba will make a “good mother”.

The heartthrob singer believes the stunning actress – who gave birth to daughter Honor Marie on Saturday (07.06.08) – has the right qualities to become a perfect parent.

Justin, who starred in ‘The Love Guru’ with Jessica, said: “Congratulations Jessica! She seems very patient, and I would assume that’s what it takes to be a good mother, a good parent for that matter.”

Justin is also impressed with the choice of name Jessica and husband Cash Warren decided on for their little girl.

He said: “Honor Marie – that’s a cool name. I’m happy for them. It’s beautiful.”

Jessica’s other co-star Mike Myers also believes she has what it takes to be a good mom.

He said: “She’ll be a great mother. She’s smart, she’s talented and she’s one of the most down-to-earth people I’ve ever worked with.”

‘The Love Guru’ will be released this summer.

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Instead of “Who are you wearing?” it seems that “When is the baby due?” has become the most burning question in Hollywood these days.

Jessica Alba just gave birth to her first child and Tori Spelling her second. Vin Diesel became a first-time dad and Nicole Kidman, Gillian Anderson, Ashlee Simpson and Minnie Driver are all in various stages of pregnancy. Heck, even such unlikely guys as Clay Aiken and David Spade are expectant fathers and celebutante Paris Hilton has been the subject of pregnancy rumors!

She may just be bloated.

Anyway, the pregnant star who has gotten the most attention is - no surprise - Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, pregnant with twins fathered by Brad Pitt, with whom she already has four children - three of whom were adopted.

A very pregnant Angelina braved the madness at the Cannes Film Festival last month to promote her films “Kung Fu Panda” and “The Changeling,” but has been keeping a low profile in France ever since.

“It’s all just so nice,” she told Entertainment Weekly in its current issue. “You just really can’t complain about anything as long as you know the babies are looking healthy. The only thing that’s hard for me now is with twins and having four kids, there’s a lot of the doctor saying, `Stop picking them up as much.’ But we’ve worked out a system where Brad just lifts them to me every time they want to come up.

I just don’t bend down. I’ll scream, `Honey!’ and he’ll come running and lift them up. Or they climb on chairs, so it’s not as big of a lift. So we’re trying to follow doctor’s orders, but I’m bending them a tiny bit.”So how will they handle being the parents of six kids under the age of 8?

“Well, we weren’t expecting twins! So it did shock us, and we jumped to six quickly,” she said. “But we like a challenge. We really don’t know. His mom and dad are on standby to come out and help. And fortunately, we can hire help if we need it, but we’re going to try as we usually do to balance it as well as we can. The only thing for us when a new child comes home is just balancing the others. Our real focus now is, How do we make sure that the babies’ coming is not upsetting to other kids and makes them feel included. … Everybody gets special time so we can make sure we know where they’re at.”

Swayze ready for series work

It’s so awfully good to hear that Patrick Swayze, currently being treated for pancreatic cancer, is well enough to go back to work.

The star of such films as “Dirty Dancing,” “Ghost” and “Point Break” is planning to begin filming the A&E drama “The Beast,” which casts him as an FBI agent. He had already filmed the pilot before his cancer diagnosis. He will continue to be treated for the cancer during the filming. He said in a statement to People mag: “I can’t wait to get to work on this.”

The series is set to air early next year.

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Hellow Jessica Alba Fans!

“New mom Jessica Alba will practice tough love.

“The baby isn’t getting away with nothing,” Romany Malco, who joins Alba and Mike Meyers in “The Love Guru,” told AP Television at the movie’s premiere.

Another cast member, Meagan Good, said Alba will probably be “strict and, `This is the way things go.’ But I think that’s great for a kid.”

And Alba’s stunt double, Taryn Dakha, threw in her two cents, saying: “She’ll be a tough mom but she’s a phenomenal mother.”

They’ll all basing their prognostications on what Alba says herself.

“I don’t want to be my child’s best friend,” the 27-year-old actress recently told Fit Pregnancy magazine. “I want to be a mom. But I do want my child to come to me when they have problems and need to talk, so it’s going to be about treading that line.”

In “The Love Guru,” set for release June 20, Alba — who with husband Cash Warren welcomed a baby girl, Honor Marie Warren, earlier this month_ plays a hockey team owner who enlists Pitka (Myers) the love guru to reunite her star player (Malco) and his estranged wife (Good).

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Alba had expressed interest in acting since the age of five. She took her first acting class at age twelve. An acting agent signed her nine months later.

Her first appearance on film was a small role in the 1994 feature Camp Nowhere as Gail. She was originally hired for two weeks but her role turned into a two-month job in a leading role when one of the prominent actresses dropped out.

Alba appeared in two national television commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penney as a child. She was later featured in several independent films. She branched out into television in 1994 with a recurring role as the vain Jessica in three episodes of the Nickelodeon comedy series The Secret World of Alex Mack. She then performed the role of Maya in the first two seasons of the television series Flipper. Under the tutelage of her lifeguard mother, Alba learned to swim before she could walk, and she was a PADI-certified scuba diver, skills which were put to use on the show, which was filmed in Australia.

In 1998, she appeared as Melissa Hauer in a first-season episode of the Steven Bochco crime-drama Brooklyn South, as Leanne in two episodes of Beverly Hills 90210 and as Layla in an episode of The Love Boat: The Next Wave. In 1999, she appeared in the Randy Quaid comedy feature P.U.N.K.S.. After Alba graduated from high school, she studied acting with William H. Macy and his wife, Felicity Huffman, at the Atlantic Theater Company, which was developed by Macy and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and film director, David Mamet.

Alba rose to greater prominence in Hollywood in 1999 after appearing as a member of a snobby high school clique in the Drew Barrymore romantic comedy Never Been Kissed, and as the female lead in the 1999 comedy-horror film Idle Hands, opposite Devon Sawa.

Her big break came when writer/director James Cameron picked Alba from a pool of 1,200 candidates for the role of the genetically-engineered super-soldier, Max Guevara, on the FOX sci-fi television series Dark Angel. Co-created by Cameron, the series starred Alba, and ran for two seasons until 2002, earning her critical acclaim as well as a Golden-Globe nomination.

During preparation for Dark Angel, in which Alba trained for three hours every day, the actress began to starve herself and became obsessed with exercise, going on to say, “A lot of girls have eating disorders and I did too. I got obsessed with it.” Alba recalls coming to a realization that she had a problem when she dropped to just 100 lb and cites her natural introduction to puberty and her development of womanly curves as two things that caused her “concern” regarding her aesthetics. Alba, who also suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder and panic attacks, says she has been cooking for herself since the age of twelve, in fear she will end up as fat as her family members.

Alba’s most notable film roles have included an aspiring dancer-choreographer in Honey, exotic dancer Nancy Callahan in Sin City and as the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four, of which movie critic Mick LaSalle said that her performance while talking for long periods of time was on “shaky ground”. She then appeared in its sequel, in Into the Blue later that year, and Good Luck Chuck a few years later. Alba went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code.

In 2008, Alba appeared in her first horror-film role in The Eye, a remake of the Hong Kong original. In February, she hosted the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s Science and Technical Awards.^[26] Later in the year, she will be starring in The Love Guru.

Alba has been represented by talent agent, Patrick Whitesell.

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In 2006, readers of Askmen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women, while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their “Top 100″, after Lindsay Lohan. Both GQ and In Style had Alba on their June covers, and in May, after eight million votes, FHM (UK and USA editions) named Alba the winner as “2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World”. Alba continues to be regarded as one of the world’s most attractive women, being named to Maxim’s Hot 100 in 2008.

Alba has received successful public reception in popular culture. She received the Teen Choice Award for Choice Actress and Saturn Award for Best Actress (TV) for her role in Dark Angel.She has frequently appeared on Maxim’s Hot 100 list. In 2006, Alba received an MTV Movie Award for “Sexiest Performance” for Sin City.

Her acting has also drawn criticism however, as she was nominated for a 2007 Razzie Award for Worst Actress for her perfomances in Awake, Good Luck Chuck, and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.

On the cover of the March 2006 issue, Playboy magazine named Alba among its 25 Sexiest Celebrities, and the Sex Star of the Year. Alba was involved in litigation against Playboy for its use of her image (from a promotional shot for Into the Blue) without her consent, which she contends gave the appearance that she was featured in the issue in a “nude pictorial”. However, she later dropped the lawsuit after receiving a personal apology from Playboy owner Hugh Hefner, who agreed to make donations to two charities that Alba has supported.

Alba fears being typecast as a sex kitten based on the bulk of parts offered to her. “Somehow, I don’t think this is happening to Natalie Portman,” laments Alba. In the interview, Alba says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress but believes she needs to do movies that she would otherwise not be interested in to build her career, stating that eventually she hopes to be more selective in her film projects.

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Alba was raised as a Roman Catholic and still considers herself “spiritual“. In her adolescence, she became a born-again Christian, but left the church after four years because she felt she was being judged for her appearance, explaining:

Alba also had objections to the church’s condemnations of premarital sex and homosexuality, and the lack of strong female role models in the Bible, explaining “I thought it was a nice guide, but it certainly wasn’t how I was going to live my life.” However, has stated that she still holds her belief in God despite leaving the church.

As the daughter of religiously conservative parents, Alba, whose grandparents did not allow her to wear a bathing suit around the house, maintains a no-nudity clause in her contract, though she has claimed she had been open to the possibility of appearing nude in Sin City. She remarked of a GQ shoot in which she was scantily clad, “They didn’t want me to wear the granny panties, but I said, ‘If I’m gonna be topless I need to wear granny panties.”

Alba was given the option to appear nude by the film’s directors, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez, but declined the offer saying, “I don’t do nudity. I just don’t. Maybe that makes me a bad actress. Maybe I won’t get hired in some things. But I have too much anxiety”.

While filming Dark Angel, Alba began a four year romance with fellow castmate Michael Weatherly, which caused controversy due to their 12 year age gap. He proposed to her on her twentieth birthday. They eventually broke up after a four-year relationship. In July 2007, Jessica spoke out about the break up. “I don’t know [why I got engaged]. I was a virgin. He was 12 years older than me. I thought he knew better. My parents weren’t happy. They’re really religious. They believe God wouldn’t allow The Bible to be written if it wasn’t what they are supposed to be believe. I’m completely different.”

Alba had at one time said she envisioned a much older man as her ideal partner, making references to Morgan Freeman, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, and Michael Caine. “I have this thing for older men. They’ve been around and know so much.” Regarding children, Alba said, “I’m really girly when it comes to kids. I’ve been surrounded by kids my whole life because I’m the oldest of 15 cousins — I’ve been changing diapers since I was six. I want to have a couple, for sure”.

Alba married Cash Warren (son of actor Michael Warren) on Monday, May 19, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Alba met Warren while making Fantastic Four in 2004. They are expecting their first child in early spring or summer of 2008. Alba, who never learned Spanish as a child, reportedly began mastering the language during her pregnancy with the intention of speaking only Spanish to her child once he or she is born. Despite reports to the contrary, she is not expecting twins.

Alba’s charity work includes participation with Clothes Off Our Back, Habitat for Humanity, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Project HOME, RADD, Revlon Run/Walk for Women, SOS Children Villages, Soles4Souls, and Step up. Alba supports Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama in the 2008 U.S. elections.

On May 14, 2008 Jessica Alba posted an entry in an ibeatyou.com competition “The Stare: No Blinking” (started by pro basketballer Baron Davis) after being challenged by renowned Youtube and ibeatyou user Kevjumba. The video, featuring Alba’s stare into the camera, was later uploaded to Youtube where it received over 2 million views in less than 3 days.

On June 7, 2008 Alba gave birth to a baby girl, Honor Marie Warren, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

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