In 2002, at the ripe old age of 21, actress Jessica Alba made her first really big purchase: a $1.1 million house in Beverly Hills, Calif.

She kept her bachelorette pad even after she bought a much bigger house — twice the size, four times the price — for her new husband and their first child in 2008. As 2010 turned to 2011, she put the Balinese-style Beverly Hills home up for rent at just under $9,000 a month.

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