{"id":2394699,"date":"2026-04-29T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2394699"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:01:22","slug":"jessica-alba-says-this-past-year-was-a-beautiful-one-as-she-celebrates-45th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jessica-alba-says-this-past-year-was-a-beautiful-one-as-she-celebrates-45th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Alba Says &#8216;This Past Year Was a Beautiful One&#8217; as She Celebrates 45th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For her 45th birthday, Jessica Alba reflected on the life she&#8217;s built with her loved ones<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a post on Instagram, she thanked her children, partner Danny Ramirez, and close friends for their love and support<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m walking into this next year with more grace, more joy, more gratitude, and a deeper love for the people who make my life mine,&#8221; she wrote<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jessica-alba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Jessica Alba;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Jessica Alba<\/a> is celebrating another trip around the sun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On her birthday on April 28, the actress reflected on the life she&#8217;s built over her 45 years in an introspective post on Instagram. Alba compiled glimpses from her birthday this year, photos from her childhood and a selection of meaningful quotes to mark the milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This past year was a beautiful one. The kind that stretches you in all the right ways, opens you up, and shows you just how much love and light you&#8217;re surrounded by,&#8221; she wrote in the caption. &#8220;I&#8217;m walking into this next year with more grace, more joy, more gratitude, and a deeper love for the people who make my life mine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She went on to thank her &#8220;soul sisters,&#8221; her &#8220;love&#8221; \u2014 presumably her partner of nearly a year, Danny Ramirez \u2014 and her three children, who she shares with estranged husband <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jessica-alba-s-ex-husband-cash-warren-reflects-on-the-year-i-wanted-to-forget-11877769\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Cash Warren;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Cash Warren<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a video from her birthday celebration included in the post, Alba highlighted her kids Honor, Haven and Hayes as one of the most valuable parts of her life. &#8220;If I was blessed with anything by God, it was these incredible human beings,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Jessica Alba.<br \/>Credit: Jessica Alba\/Instagram<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In her post, Alba also shared four throwback photos from her childhood: a photo of herself as a baby, two of herself at an elementary school age, and one from her teenage years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Sitting here today with a heart full of gratitude for where I am, and so much excitement for all the magic still ahead. To that little girl in these photos &#8211; I love you so much. This life turned out bigger and fuller than we ever could&#8217;ve dreamed,&#8221; Alba concluded her post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <\/strong><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a><\/strong><strong> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ramirez honored Alba in a series of snaps on his Instagram stories. In a photo of him kissing Alba on the cheek during a glamorous night out, he wrote &#8220;Happy birthday mi amor \u2764\ufe0f,&#8221; followed by additional snaps of them enjoying more casual moments together.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jessica-alba-says-this-past-year-was-a-beautiful-one-as-she-celebrates-45th-birthday-11961032\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW For her 45th birthday, Jessica Alba reflected on the life she&#8217;s built with her loved ones In a post on Instagram, she thanked her children, partner Danny Ramirez, and close friends for their love and support &#8220;I&#8217;m walking into this next year with more grace, more joy, more gratitude, and a deeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2394701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[333014,50514,319377],"class_list":["post-2394699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-danny-ramirez","tag-jessica-alba","tag-post-on-instagram"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jessica-Alba-Says-This-Past-Year-Was-a-Beautiful-One.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2394699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2394702,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394699\/revisions\/2394702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2394701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2394699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2394699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2394699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}