Jessica Alba, Pete Wentz & Chace Crawford's Love Confessions

After playing a genetically enhanced guy-magnet on the sci-fi series Dark Angel, Jessica Alba took her toned body to the big screen in Honey, Sin City and The Fantastic Four. Though few of her films have been huge box office hits, her star continues to rise, thanks in part to her dedicated male fan base and stunning looks. While her flawless beauty landed her contracts with L'Oréal and Revlon, Alba refuses to use it for nude scenes and once sued Playboy for publishing a photo of her on its cover without permission. Previously engaged to Dark Angel costar Michael Weatherly, Alba is currently engaged to Hollywood producer Cash Warren, with whom she's expecting her first child.

Jessica Alba's Love Confessions

The latest CosmoGIRL magazine is hitting stands with newly engaged mom-to-be Jessica Alba on the cover. Though she steers clear of any pregnancy details, the 26-year-old actress does hand out some motherly advice to young girls who are dating: "Most guys, especially when they're younger, really are only after one thing," she says. "To all the girls out there, I don't want to say, 'Don't give your heart to somebody like that,' But wait at least a good year. You can be in a relationship and do some things, have fun, get to know each other – but don't give them everything. "That was something I did at a young age," she adds, "fell in love and gave him my everything, and I was left with nothing. It took me a long time to put myself back together, and I wish someone would have told me back them to hang on to some of myself." The mag also scores some confessions from Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz (who's still going strong with Ashlee Simpson) and Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford (who's currently spending quality time with Carrie Underwood).

Caught in the Act!

Mom-to-be Jessica Alba and boyfriend Cash Warren, shopping for furniture together at Landon Cole in Los Angeles. No, she wasn't shopping for baby furniture – yet! Instead, the actress seemed interested in the store's three-piece, sectional suede sofa. • Matt Damon, helping daughter Isabella, 18 months, pet the animals at the Molly's Mutts & Meows and Best Friends Animal Society adoption booth at a West Hollywood park along with wife Luciana. The family didn't adopt an animal, but Isabella appeared to enjoy playing with the dogs, a park goer tells us. • Entourage star Kevin Connolly, trading the private jet his TV character takes for a commercial flight. The actor flew first class from Los Angeles to New York. After touching down at John F. Kennedy airport, he put on a baseball cap and chatted on his cell phone while waiting for his luggage.

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After a house hunting expedition in Brentwood, Calif., Alba works up a Fantastic appetite for a deli sandwich.

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Jessica Alba and beau Cash Warren make courtship a true sport on Sunday while taking in the Lakers game at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

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A month before announcing her pregnancy, Jessica Alba showed off her still slender figure at the New York premiere of her movie Awake on Nov. 14. The actress and her boyfriend Cash Warren are expecting their first child together in "late spring, early summer," her rep confirmed exclusively to PEOPLE.

Jessica Alba Is Pregnant

Mom-to-be Jessica Alba was spotted over the Christmas holiday with a rock on her left ring finger – and the rumors are true: She and boyfriend Cash Warren are engaged, her rep confirms to PEOPLE. "I can confirm that they are engaged," says publicist Brad Cafarelli.Earlier this month, the couple announced to PEOPLE that they are expecting a baby. Alba, 26, has been dating Warren, 28, since the fall of 2004, after they met on the set of her movie, The Fantastic Four, on which Warren was a director's assistant. Alba has also starred in Sin City and the recent Awake.

Jessica Alba Biography

One of the crop of bright-eyed, dewy-skinned young actors to attain teen idoldom and a regular paycheck during the late 1990s, Jessica Alba closed out the century as one of Hollywood's more promising new talents. Born in Pomona, California, on April 28, 1981, Alba, whose father was in the Air Force, moved with her family to Biloxi, Mississippi, when she was an infant, but she eventually moved back to California nine years later. It was back in California that she embarked on an acting career; having been in love with the idea of acting since she was five, Alba took her first acting class at the age of 12, and nine months later, she landed her first agent. She got her start on television, making appearances on shows like Beverly Hills 90210, and she made her film debut in the 1994 kids comedy Camp Nowhere. Originally cast in a minor role in the film, she got her first big break when the principal actress dropped out and she was asked to take over. Following her debut, Alba did a great deal of work on television. She got her first substantial film role as the object of the protagonist's disastrous affection in the teen horror comedy Idle Hands in 1999; that same year, she played one of the nasty popular girls who terrorize Drew Barrymore in the romantic comedy Never Been Kissed. The following year Alba made waves on the small screen when she was cast in the much hyped Fox series Dark Angel, executive produced by James Cameron. She was cast as a genetically-engeneered woman who escapes from the lab and joins a cyberjournalist named Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly) in his neverending fight against a crime in a post-apocalyptic future. Though the series was cancelled after two seasons, Alba continued to appear in such indie features as Paranoid (2000) and The Sleeping Dictionary (2002); the little-seen Glitter-esque dancer drama Honey similarly did little to enhance her profile. All that would change, however, when Alba became one of the core members of the quartet of the Fantastic Four franchise. Mostly reviled by critics but a solid success with audiences, her role as the spontaneously invisible Susan Storm endeared her to 10-year-old sci-fi geeks everwhere. Now a blockbuster actress, Alba attempted to balance this heightened profile with roles in pedestrian thrillers (Into the Blue), audacious pulp noirs (Sin City) and gross-out rom-coms (Good Luck Chuck). Rebecca Flint, All Movie Guide