Jessica Alba's tough childhood

Beauty Jessica Alba has vowed that she will never go under the knife because she wants to age gracefully and retain the expressive nature of her face for acting roles reports Digital Spy.

"As an actress, you express emotion with your face. And if you have plastic surgery, you lose that spark," Alba explained. "People usually look better without surgery - my grandmother aged very gracefully."

Meanwhile, The Daily Mail reports that Jessica Alba had a tough childhood.

The rich starlet childhood heart ache including wearing hand-me-down clothes, living in a rough area of Los Angeles, and suffering serious health problems.

Jessica Alba reveals : "My dad made $14,000 a year working in the air force; he now works as an estate agent. My mum worked at a youth center, a clothing store and at McDonald's.

"For a long time we lived on air force bases in government housing, then when I was nine we moved to Los Angeles into my grandparents house.

"Financially, we were poor, we wore thrift shop clothes and buying school clothes was the big expense for the year; we were always on a budget."

"My dad would drive us down to Mexico and say, 'I’ll show you what real poverty is,' and we would see that our life wasn't that bad.

"I wasn’t a kid trying to sell gum on the side of the road. My parents did their best, but it was definitely tough. I'm really happy that I don't live like that any more," she says quietly.