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\"He was really anti-tattoos and I felt like after I broke up with him I found myself again,\" she added.

That same year, Alba also said she would \"think twice before getting a tattoo\" in an interview about advice she would give her younger self for Allure.

\"You're never going to be in the same place emotionally and mentally at 18 that you are at 20 or 25 or 30,\" she told the magazine. \"Something that's meaningful to you when you're younger is not going to be meaningful to you five years later.\"

\"Understand that tattoos are forever,\" she added. \"I have a few tattoos. I'm not into them now the way that I was.\"

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