Ex-actress Cameron Diaz is surely unaware of her beauty. In an interview she gave to Michelle Visage on the BBC Podcast Rule Breakersthe star of bad teacher told how much her life had changed since she retired from the film industry after her role as Miss Hannigan in Anne in 2014.
About the superficiality of the cinema environment, the mother of Raddix said she fell into a world where beauty is people’s ultimate goal. “I am absolutely a victim of all the objectifications and exploitations that women suffer”, she regretted before continuing: “I myself have participated in this system at times. It’s difficult, it’s difficult not to look at yourself and not to judge yourself in relation to beauty markers. But I think that’s one of the best things… For the past eight years I’ve been wild and free. I am like a wild animal, like a beast. The last thing I think about during the day is what I look like.“The former star of Mary at all cost added that looking in the mirror for hours every day was “toxic“for an actress.
During the conversation, the former Golden Globes queen revealed that she has never tried very hard to maintain her beauty, although she freely admits that she has “a billion products on its shelves“: “I literally do nothing. I never wash my face. If I’m lucky, I say to myself twice a month ‘oh I better put this, once it worked, right?’, I’m no longer in the idea of putting my energy into it.“
Today, Cameron Diaz is enjoying her family life, which she built with Benji Madden, her husband of seven years now. Together, they welcomed little Raddix, born in 2020. Desiring a simpler and healthier life, the star paid tribute to her companion in 2017 for E! News : “Women are very much considered objects (…) Somehow my husband showed me that this is not a way to have a relationship and to be equal.”