Jessica Alba Doesn't Like To Be The Center Of Attention

Being beautiful has it's downsides, at least according to Jessica Alba.

"I'm shy. I don't like being the center of attention," Alba, 29, told Elle for their December issue. "But when I do comedy, I lose all inhibition and introspection. I no longer care." She wasn't always so nonchalant about her time in the spotlight, recalling past criticism of her work.

"I know I haven't been swimming in the deep end with some of the movies I've done. I wasn't trying to. I knew what they were," she said. "I'd been so afraid of criticism ever since I was young. Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally, but now I have no problem with it. It's just a chance to try things a different way."