Trivia
- In November 2008 Jessica joined Scarlett Johansson, Jared Leto and Christina Ricci, among others, in featuring in a line of celebrity trading cards, with sale proceeds going to charities selected by the stars.
- Jessica owns a dog named Tina.
- Jessica ranked #24 on FHM UK's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2007.
Jessica ranked #6 on FHM Online's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2007.
Jessica ranked #5 in Maxim's 2007 Hot 100 List.
Jessica was chosen as one of People Magazine's annual 100 Most Beautiful People in May 2007.
Jessica was ranked #98 on VH1's hottest hotties list.
Jessica ranked #2 on FHM Online's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2008 list.
Jessica ranked #13 on FHM UK's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2008 list.
Jessica Biel was ranked #3 in Maxim's Hot 100 Women 2008. - Her height is 5' 7½" (1.71 m).
- It has been reported that Jessica is very close friends with actress Beverley Mitchell, her on-screen sister from 7th Heaven. "I like to call her and make fun of her!" Mitchell has joked about the rumors that swirled in 2007 about Jessica's affair with Cameron Diaz's former boyfriend Justin Timberlake.
- Jessica was voted as the #5 fantasy girlfriend in a poll conducted by AskMen.com for the Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2007. The website asked Voters to consider qualities including sex appeal and beauty, and intelligence, humour, charisma and ambition.
- Jessica got on the cover of the Dutch magazine TV/Film in issue #22, November 2006.
- Jessica has a contract in which she says never to do nude scenes. She had a body double for her nude scene in the film London, because the director wanted a close-up of her breasts and bottom.
- Jessica put herself up for bid to help a teenager who lost her leg in a prom night limousine accident. A man named John made the winning bid of $30,000 and won a date with Biel.
- Jessica Biel reprises her role as Mary Camden-Rivera for the first time in nearly three years. Her last appearance was in the season 8 episode An Early Fall.
- Jessica received the Young Artist Award - Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actress in Ulee's Gold.
- Jessica's family is of German, French, Irish, English and Choctaw Native American descent.
- On 7th Heaven, Jessica plays Mary, Lucy's (Beverley Mitchell) older sister, but in reality she's actually fourteen months younger than her.
- Jessica was turned down for the lead role in American Beauty because of her "good girl" image on 7th Heaven.
- Jessica is scared of spiders.
- Jessica once dated actor and 7th Heaven and I'll Be Home For Christmas co-star Adam LaVorgna.
- In 2002, Jessica appeared in the Major League Baseball commercials, her ad, "Why Biel watches baseball players? You know the answer. It's their butts."
Quotes
- Jessica: (about being in school) It's pretty good, actually. People treat me pretty normally. I think most of all, people just won't talk to me. That's the kind of thing that happens. I wouldn't necessarily say that they're ignoring me on purpose; I just think it's kind of like they don't really know what to say, and I sometimes don't know what to say either. So I'll just sit there. If I'm in a class where I don't know anybody, I sometimes just won't talk to that many people. But people treat me really cool, and they don't bug me. They're great. They're really great.
- Jessica: I don't really care about, you know, changing my image. I just want to do different things. That kind of was the draw for me - when I thought about being an actor as a little kid - is that I can be a princess, I can be an archeologist, I can play this person, I could be anything. It doesn't have to be me, and that's the great thing about the job.
- Jessica: (about posing in skimpy bikinis) I figure that someday, I'll be able to tell my grandchildren, "Granny used to be a hottie!"
- Jessica: (referring to her breakout role) This guy came up to me and said, "Do you remember that one time on 7th Heaven when you barked like a dog?" That was my favorite episode!
- Jessica: (on Adam Sandler touching her breasts in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry) I was definitely freaked out about filming that scene where Adam has to inspect my boobs to see if they are natural. I knew it was coming, I thought, 'I've only got a month, three weeks, then two weeks.' I had to train pretty hard and stay on a structured diet. I don't like the word 'diet' though, I just kept my eating in check to get to a place with my body where I felt, 'OK, its cool, I can be in a movie in my underwear.
- Jessica: (revealing she believes marriage is just a piece of "paperwork") I don't feel the need to settle down right now. And if I do meet somebody, I don't feel the need for the paperwork of marriage. For me, a verbal agreement is enough. I don't know if I want to get married.
- Jessica: (on modeling) It's never nearly as sexy doing it as it appears in a magazine. You're sort of laughing through the photo shoot because it's funny to take yourself so seriously. I could never be a model because you're always standing in an awkward position and your back hurts, and you're wearing heels lying on a rock or in the sand or something. You're like, 'This is weird. I'm uncomfortable. I'm itching. I need to scratch.'
- Jessica: I can't even go to the dry cleaner by myself anymore. You're seen in public with anybody that you might not even know, and you're speculated about.
- Jessica: There's a vulnerability to being photographed without having your eyes defined or your eyebrows filled in, but I don't wear a lot of makeup in my personal life...I find that men in my past, have preferred me without it. They always said, 'No, take that off.'
- Jessica: I'm on this nutritional plan--no salt, no sugar, no bread. Just some fruits, every vegetable you can think of, lean meat, and water. They say they want me to have a six-pack stomach, but I think they really want me to have a twelve-pack.
- Jessica: My definition of sexy is not just using what you got from God, but also that you represent what you believe in. I don't want people to think I'm sexy for what I look like, I want them to find me sexy for who I am and what I do.
- Jessica: People are often afraid of me, but I'm not scary at all, I'm actually pretty sweet.
- Jessica: The best part of acting, is that you can crawl in somebody else's body, every time.
- Jessica: I seldom go to clubs and I always make sure that I can look in the mirror the next morning, and be proud of who I see. You will never find me drunk behind the wheel, and when there are drugs on a party, I'm out.
- Jessica: Is there anything better you can do as an actress, than to use your fame for charities? I don't have the illusion that I can change the world on my own, but every little helps.
- Jessica: When I was little, I wanted to become a surgeon. A dead squirrel was my first patient. My mother gave me a knife which i cut his head open with to look at his brains. I really thought it was very interesting. I still love to watch surgeries on TV, too.
- Jessica: You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.
- Jessica: Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.
- Jessica: All of this excitement and success was the culmination of years of training and commitment and from being surrounded by great supportive people.
- Jessica: I come from a very outdoorsy, adventurous, and extremely active family!
- Jessica: Smile...Even when you life is at its worst, you never know when you'll meet the one who takes your breath away!
- Jessica: (describing the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) We worked really, really hard to make it incredibly realistic, so hopefully the audience will think it could happen to them or that it could be your neighbor who could, you know, be a psychotic maniac.
