Alba 'refused to rebel against family'

Jessica Alba has admitted that she found it difficult to rebel against her family's beliefs.

The actress has revealed that although she didn't always agree with her strict upbringing, she refused to upset her parents when she growing up.

The 29-year-old told Tatler: "I come from a religious and traditional family. My mum grew up in the South and she had a Southern Baptist upbringing but my father was very Catholic.

"It's hard to rebel without your family feeling like you're rebelling against them. I don't necessarily always agree with certain things and that has nothing to do with how much I love them or how much they love me. Family is the most important thing in the world."

Alba, who has a 23-month-old daughter with husband Cash Warren, also said that she always knew she wanted to live a different life from her parents from a young age.

She added: "There were parameters and boundaries around me that I always wanted to break from."