Cameron Diaz recently sat down with podcaster Michelle Visage to share her thoughts on motherhood and beauty standards–-and frankly, it’s refreshing. On the Mar. 8 episode of Michelle Visage’s Rule Breakers, the mom, actress, and business woman broke down her thoughts on beauty, fame, and taking a break from Hollywood.
Diaz, almost 50, is married to husband Benji Madden and they share their two-year-old daughter, Raddix. When reflecting on being a celebrity, the actress is very poignant on the infantilization of people in the industry and the impact it has on women.
She admits, “I am absolutely a victim to all of the societal objectification and exploitations that women are subjected to. I have bought into all of them myself at certain times… It’s hard not to look at yourself and judge yourself against other markers of beauty.”
Since stepping back the last eight or so years, Diaz reveals that she’s been like “a wild animal, like a beast” and that many days, the last thing she thinks about on a daily basis is what she looks like. How does she do it? How does she keep such a healthy perspective on beauty?
For starters, she keeps it simple: stop looking in the mirror, stop taking pictures and selfies. Rather than picking apart the pieces of your body––being mean to it, essentially––she tries to focus on how her body has gotten her to where she is today.
Diaz, who started her professional career as a model, goes on to reflect how excited she is to turn 50 this year, because she knows so much. She doesn’t turn away from embracing her age, and leans into it in her new book, The Longevity Book which tackles her thoughts on aging, as well as the latest scientific research on the whys and hows.
Ever the simplest, the actress admits she does “nothing” to keep up her appearance. “I don’t care. Literally, the last thing I think about on a daily basis…like maybe not at all during the day, is what I look like,” she shared. “I literally do nothing. I, like, never wash my face.”
Her main focus is staying strong as she embraces her close-to-50 body plus having a two-year-old. Feeling vital is important––being able to run around with Raddix, not have her feel like she has an “old mom,” while always having memories of what it felt like to have her as a mom, not what her mom looked like.
To hear the rest of Cameron’s blissfully honest episode, head over to Michelle Visage’s Rule Breakers podcast.
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