Cameron Diaz has been evidently absent in Hollywood. The 44-year-old actress last appeared in 2014 musical Annie, co-starring Rose Byrne, Bobby Cannavale, Jamie Foxx and Quvenzhané Wallis. According to E! News, Cameron said that two decades of non-stop travel from film set to film set was too much, being one of the most popular movie stars in Hollywood. “I just went, ‘I can’t really say who I am to myself.’ Which is a hard thing to face up to,” she said on Saturday at the Goop Wellness Summit. “I felt the need to make myself whole.”
Cameron participated in a panel alongside Tory Burch, Miranda Kerr and Nicole Richie at Gwyneth Paltrow’s “In Goop Health” event held in Culver City, California. The Goop founder asked her famous friends about their relationships. “Cameron, you got married later,” Gwyn said. “What was it that kept you from getting married until you were 40?”
“Forty-one,” the Other Woman star graciously corrected her friend, smiling. “I think it’s a matter of I just hadn’t met my husband, you know? I had boyfriends before. And there’s a really, really distinct difference between husbands and boyfriends. And I have a husband who is just my partner in life and in everything. Talk about two very different people! We are so different from one another, but we share the same values—we’re totally two peas in a pod. We are both just weird enough for each other.”
“We women are objectified so much. Somehow my husband has just been able to kind of show me what it’s like not to have that be a part of a relationship, and being an equal,” she said referring to her marriage to Good Charlotte’s guitarist and singer Benji Madden.
Nicole is technically Cameron’s sister in-law, as she married Benji’s brother, Joel Madden, seven years ago. The fashion guru called the Maddens “a very close family,” telling the audience, “They rely on each other. When we got together it was like, you’re just in the family. It’s a large support system.”
“I never experienced that before. I’d never been loved in that way,” Cameron said of her husband of two years. Her famous exes include Jared Leto, Alex Rodriguez and Justin Timberlake, to name a few. “I look at him every day and he inspires me—he works so hard. I feel so lucky,” she added.
