Have you ever noticed that sometimes an actor or actress just “disappears?” The funny thing is that you only realize it after a few years of not seeing the person. One such big name that’s noticeably been missing from the Hollywood scene is Cameron Diaz. It seems odd too because Diaz was one of the highest paid actresses out there. However, Diaz was recently part of a star studded panel hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow over the weekend and she clued us into why we haven’t seen her.
While she’s one of the most popular (and highest-paid) movie stars in Hollywood, Cameron said two decades of non-stop travel from film set to film set was too much. “I just went, ‘I can’t really say who I am to myself.’ Which is a hard thing to face up to,” she said at the Goop Wellness Summit Saturday. “I felt the need to make myself whole.” Diaz went on to talk about her husband.
“I think it’s a matter of I just hadn’t met my husband [Good Charlotte’s guitarist and singer Benji Madden], 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,” she said. “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.”
Now in her early 40s, it’s evident that Diaz simply hadn’t found the right guy for herself. Seems that her marriage has changed her perception on things quite a bit. I have a feeling we’ll be seeing her on the big screen soon though. However, so far she has nothing in the works in 2017.
Photo via Marc Patrick/BFA.com
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