Jessica Alba shares summer snapshots featuring tiger-print bikini and boyfriend Danny Ramirez

Jessica Alba marked the tail end of summer with a carousel of photographs that mapped out her August in the kind of detail only social media allows—a tiger-striped bikini selfie, golf outings in matching black dresses, her daughter stretched across her on the sand, a candid moment with her boyfriend Danny Ramirez over matching bowls of food. The 45-year-old actress posted the collection with a simple caption: "August so far 🍒👙🌺💗."

The opening image set the tone: Alba in a close-up selfie, wearing an animal-print string bikini, layered gold necklaces, hoop earrings, and narrow burgundy sunglasses. Behind her through the windows, the ocean was visible. It was the kind of photograph designed to announce that summer was still happening, still worth documenting, still worth sharing.

But the carousel was less about vanity than about inventory. There was the golf outing, where Alba and a friend sat on the grass in coordinating black sleeveless dresses with white collars, Alba in a black baseball cap and sunglasses, flashing a peace sign. There was the beach moment with her eldest daughter, Honor, who is 18—Honor stretched out on top of her mother as they relaxed on a board in the sand, with lush greenery and towering cliffs behind them. Honor wore a green-and-white striped bikini. Alba wore a patterned one. They looked like they were exactly where they wanted to be.

The photograph with Ramirez showed the two of them laughing at an outdoor table, holding matching bowls, fresh fruit and limes spread across the surface in front of them. Alba wore her hair up with gold under-eye patches and a patterned cover-up. Ramirez wore a black T-shirt and a baseball cap. They were smiling at each other. The image had the quality of something captured rather than posed—the kind of moment that suggests comfort, or at least the appearance of it.

Alba and Ramirez first sparked speculation in July 2025, then confirmed their relationship later that year when they attended the Baby2Baby Gala together. Since then, they have become more public about it. Alba has called him "my love" in a birthday post and thanked him "for loving me through every chapter." Last month, she shared multiple bikini photos from a vacation with him in Tuscany, where they were photographed by the water, paddleboarding, spending time on a boat.

In an interview with Elle in May, Alba reflected on how her understanding of love has shifted over time. "Over time, I've learned to embrace every version of how love can show up," she said. "Love shows up in so many different ways, and it's not always grand gestures. Sometimes it's just holding space." She pushed back against the rom-com version of romance that had defined so much of her career as an actress. "It's not always a movie or a rom-com. Sometimes love is just sitting there when someone's not feeling well and rubbing their head, or just allowing someone to rage and giving them space. But still being there and knowing that nothing they can do can push you away."

She also acknowledged the peculiar challenge of living much of her life in public. "I can't control that everyone has a camera now and the ability to record you," she told Elle. "You kind of feel like you're in the zoo when you're out in the wild." But she has found one tool that gives her some agency: her own social media. "The one thing I've been able to do is try and control the narrative as much as possible through my own social media," she said. "I found that's the only place where I feel like I have control over the narrative of how my life shows up." The August carousel, then, was not just a summer recap. It was Alba choosing what story to tell about herself.