Burning: Jessica Biel

“Jessica Biel” rose to fame as the wholesome preacher’s daughter on the WB television show 7th Heaven, then gained greater notoriety for trying to get herself kicked off the show via a risqué photo spread in the men’s magazine Gear.

A flawless beauty with a down-to-earth attitude, Jessica Biel found success on the small screen portraying Mary Camden, the mostly level-headed eldest daughter of a progressive minister, on the long-running WB drama “7th Heaven” before taking on the big screen in films such as “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Blade: Trinity”.

Bad news, ladies pop hunk JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE has proposed to long-term love JESSICA BIEL.

Jessica Biel made a recent appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, promoting her new movie I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry co-starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James.

Three seasons into it, feeling confined by the show’s pedestrian subject matter and worried that it would hurt her future film career, Jessica posed for Gear magazine in only some very small shorts—which was a big deal because:

1. she was just 17
2. it violated her contract
3. she looked incredible.

During a break from filming 7th Heaven, in spring 1998, she shot the holiday movie I’ll Be Home for Christmas, playing opposite Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

Biel has Native American, German, French, English, and Irish ancestry.

The film, adapted from an obscure Noel Coward play by Priscilla, Queen of the Desert director Stephan Elliot, details the effect that a brash young American wife Larita has on the denizens of a crumbling English pile, and more specifically on her new mother-in-law, the terrifyingly respectable Veronica Whittaker.

Born in Minnesota and raised in Boulder, Colorado, Jessica began modeling and performing in musical theater at an early age.

These days, Jessica is causing a paparazzi-crazed stir with boyfriend Justin Timberlake, she’s wrapping Powder Blue with Patrick Swayze, Ray Liotta, Forest Whitaker and Riki Lindhome, and she’s reportedly in talks for the Wonder Woman role in the upcoming Justice League film.

Along the way, she found time for relationships with Chris Evans , fellow 7th Heaven-er Adam LaVorgna, and ballplayer Derek Jeter.

After leaving 7th Heaven at the end of the sixth season, she was cast as the lead heroine in the remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Biel initially trained to be a vocalist, and appeared in several musical productions in her hometown, playing lead roles in productions such as Annie, The Sound of Music and Beauty and the Beast.

Born Jessica Claire Biel on March 3, 1982 in Ely, Minnesota, to Kimberly Biel a homemaker, and Jon Biel, an entrepreneur.

And, certainly, she’s not just a Hollywood poster girl, current partner of Justin Timberlake, and an über-babe.

After one more season on the show and a few semesters at Tufts University, Jessica switched to the big screen, appearing in a string of movies in which she was arguably the best thing about them, including Summer Catch , The Rules of Attraction , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , Cellular , Blade: Trinity and Stealth.

After auditioning for several television pilots, at 14 she was cast as the oldest daughter in a new family drama, 7th Heaven, the show was originally scheduled to air on FOX, but was picked up by The WB Network instead.