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Jessica Alba has revealed she developed a 'warrior' persona to protect herself from 'Hollywood predators' as a young actress.

The actress, 41, who shot to fame aged 19 in Dark Angel was asked if 'being objectified as a sex symbol as a young actress' bothered her at the time during a recent episode of Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?

She said: 'I understood I needed to help sell the product, I understood it as a business decision and a strategy.

'I don't think there's anything wrong with owning your sexuality, but at the time I was definitely not that person, I was nervous about all of that.

Asked by Wallace how she dealt with that, Alba responded: 'I was a warrior. I put up that energy... I was really tough, man.

'I think I tried to make myself as unavailable as possible, so that I wouldn't be taken advantage of.'

'I felt like I was very much having to put up this armor of masculine and masculine energy. So I wouldn't be preyed on, because there were a lot of predators in Hollywood from [the time I was] age 12 to 26.

Alba added she was 'quite uncomfortable in my own skin' at the time, saying: 'It wasn't until I became a mom that I really started to even see myself as a woman or a sexual being or someone who owned her power and her femininity.'

The mom of three said having her daughter Honor, now 14, meant her priorities shifted and she became focused on business over acting.

The star shares Honor, Haven, 11 and son Hayes with husband Cash Warren, who she wed in 2008. 

 The Sin City star has dominated Hollywood for over 20 years, having starred in a series of blockbuster films, including Machete, Spy Kids and Fantastic Four.

In 2018 she opened up about her experiences of sexual harassment as well as whether the #MeToo movement iwasleading to change in the entertainment industry, in a candid interview with CNN's Talk Asia.

The Sin City star told host

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