Spiritual Statements

From Jessica Alba (actress) in the April GQ:

"My parents weren't religious, but at 12, I started asking, 'why am I here? what's the point of living?' ... I started going to church three days a week. Stopped watching secular television--I couldn't even watch Davey and Goliath." The article noted that she'd wake up at 5 a.m. to pray and say things like "oh darn" when she stubbed a toe.

More from the article:

And then one day her body rebelled against God. Her teenage breasts blossomed; her buttocks began straining against her dungarees. "I would go to the beach and by born-again friends would be like, 'your jeans are too tight! you're tempting me.'" 

Paraphrase: Her youth pastor at church had her using a sweater to cover said buttocks, and soon she could relate only to the biblical stories of Bathsheba and Jezebel. At 13 she started acting in roles that likely made that youth pastor blush (Chicago Hope) and joined a theater company at 16.

"I was suddenly around all these different kinds of people who were going to hell according to my church. And I just thought that the god I am praying to is a failed god if these people are damned. What about people in Africa? Asia? People not aware of my religion? They're going to hell, too? That's bullshit!"

Me: The article didn't delve any deeper than that about her faith, as it talked about her movie, Sin City. Anyway, my curiosity is aroused a bit when I read snippets about someone's faith background. Now I know, some of you who may have actually stumbled across the April GQ cover might say it wasn't the comments that got my attention; rather, the almost nude cover with Jessica on it. But I did look inside at the article before buying the magazine.

Comments

[Jimmy]

I was intrigued by her comments as well (i skimmed some of the article b/f i bought it), but when I read it later, I was left wanting to know more about her spiritual background.

[Leah]

I actually read the article online and thought her point of view was really interesting. It would be cool to hear more about her faith journey.