This story seems like a case of fan fiction from Star magazine on a slow news week. It has all of the ingredients of a classic Jennifer Aniston story except it never talks about hair. The gist of the tale is that Cameron Diaz must have suddenly realized she’s nearing the end of her childbearing years. She has been so “unlucky in love” and has a new boyfriend, so she must want children, right? I dislike it so much when the tabloids write stories like this.
Cameron has always voiced her opinions strongly. She may be annoying when she starts ranting about deodorant or monogamy, but I’ve never gotten the impression that she was being less than truthful. She’s never raved about wanting babies, but now that Cameron has a nice boyfriend (Benji Madden) and they kiss in public, things must be different, right?
After just two months of dating, Cameron Diaz is ready to have a baby with Benji Madden, Star can reveal. “She’s falling hard,” admits a close friend. “She think she’s The One.” Cameron’s lust for motherhood is the result of her long-standing friendship with Benji’s sister-in-law, Nicole Richie, who introduced the new couple. Cam sees how much joy Nicole gets from her kids,” continues the source. “She’s always wanted to be a mom and doesn’t want to wait until it’s too late.” The 41-year-old, who debuted her tomance with the Good Charlotte guitarist, 35, with a hand-in-hand stroll in New York City on June 3, is already looking into her options. “If it turns out that she can’t conceive,” says the friend, “She’s open to adoption or surrogacy. She’s made up her midn that it’s going to happen within the next two years — whether Benji wants to be involved or not.” Talk about jumping in headfirst!
[From Star, print edition, June 23, 2014]
I have never imagined for a moment that Cameron’s been dying to have a child. She’s never played that game with the press either. It seems very unlikely that Cameron has changed her mind about kids since her recent press tour. She told the Telegraph, “If I wanted kids, at any point in life, I would have them. It’s not like I’m the spinster who didn’t have a child. I just didn’t do that in life, and I’m OK with that. I know the choices I made. I know why I made them.” Cameron also said that she had tons of children in her life already, and if she ever wanted to “borrow” a kid, her friends would be thrilled. She’s perfectly happy being Auntie Cam.
Not all women want to have kids, but that doesn’t sell tabloids. Baby watch does.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
I suppose the editors of these tabloids when they have no new stories from the eternal triangle( Brad/Angelina/Jennifer). They go down a list and find an actress of a certain age. Then make up some story of that woman wanting a baby.
I don’t buy this at all. She has pretty much maintained the same position about having a baby for as long as I can remember.
Exactly. If the day comes and Cam wants a baby, she doesn’t need a man to do it. When I see Benji, I think of two things….high school and Paris Hilton. Although, I think he is the “nicest” guy Cammie has been with in a very, very long time.
Thank you Star “magazine” for perpetuating the myth that having a man and a baby will make every woman’s life complete.
+1
+2. Depressing in this day and age.
Ugh.
don´t forget cooking, baking and wondering all day how to keep your man, because otherwise you are a total failure.
Right. Forget about her own accomplishments. Did she get that ring? Ugh.
+ a million. Because we’re all just SO DESPERATE after a certain age. Eff off Star.
Yeah, someone at Star pulled out the “Desperate biological ticking clock actress” template, and inserted Diaz’s name, to complete the ever perpetuated trope and make deadline.
She’s been very clear, pretty much right from the start of her career, that having children isn’t something she’s interested in, and for the last few years she’s been saying things like her above quote, that kind of suggest she thinks it’s not even an available option for her anymore anyway. So this story is pure BS. Seriously tabloid writers, how hard is it to do a tiny bit of research and find out if your made up scenario could actually apply to the person you’re writing about?
I think they perpetuate this stuff to the public because they think every woman wants to get married and have babies.
No one is going to fall for this. Among other comments about not having children, I have even heard Cameron say she can barely look after herself let alone a baby. I am surprised desperation to print lies goes this far when a celebrity’s intentions are so clearly known. Aniston has always hemmed and hawed with ridiculous wanting a family comments but not Cameron.
Damn, let this woman be.
I’ve overdosed on all things Diaz but she seems perfectly content with her life.
Motherhood isn’t for everyone.
So agree that motherhood is not for everyone.
Agree, and I also think if she wanted a baby, she’d have one.
My friend never ever wanted children. She even had an operation in her 20s during her first marriage she was so sure. She was married and didn’t want any and neither did he. They divorced and she dated around for years. She fell madly in love. He had two children, so she was a stepmother. The children lived hours away, so it was more of a visitation every other weekend thing. She still never had a clock ticking kind of thing and was a career woman, but told me years later if he didn’t have children already and time that needed to be spent with them and financially needed to be supportive of them that she would have reversed her procedure and gotten pregnant. I was stunned. She said loving him so much, she could see having his baby.
My other friend did the same thing in her first marriage in her early 20s. But in her 30s after being divorced married again and she reversed her procedure and wanted a baby and they had twins. She had always been the best aunt in the world but never had a desire for her own children until her new husband.
I had another friend who knew from the age of 20 she didn’t want children. Married young, divorced young. Single for years and beautiful. But at 36 fell in love with a guy she told me she would have a baby with if he wanted a child. It shocked me also. In all of the years of our friendship she had never expressed a desire for a child. The relationship ended so she didn’t. But it was something about her love for him in that relationship that brought out something maternal in her.
None of these women had a burning desire for a child, in fact the opposite, yet I know for a fact all of these women would be tremendous mothers IF they made the decision to have a child and would be madly in love with their babies and thoughtful parents, as the one was who did have her twins. And if didn’t like the other two, were perfectly fine. I know a guy who never wanted children and married a woman in her 30s who wanted a child. He is head over heels with that baby. He would have been fine without it in his new marriage, but because he met the right woman who did want a child and right timing and once the little munchkin was in his life, he couldn’t imagine it without the little girl. Sometimes it’s the circumstances in your life that changes everything regarding the desire to have a baby versus not before.
So Cammie may surprise us yet. And if not, she’s right. It doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a great life because she chose not to have children.
I never liked the above narrative ^^^ it implies that we are all just waiting for the ‘right’ person. I’m married to a great guy but still don’t want kids. We’re entitled to change our minds but let’s just leave it as that: we changed our minds.
Why is it so hard for people to believe that not all women want children? Cameron has been pretty open about this which is way more refreshing then Jennifer Anniston who keeps pretending she wants them. Please she was with Brad Pitt for 7 years and never found the time she has been with Justin for a few years. You can have a very fulfilling life without having a baby. Besides with her track record I doubt she and Benji will last all that long anyway.
I know right. Because when I look at that picture of him, “daddy material” is not the first thing that came to mind.
I see CDC Patient Zero Material when I look at him. Or “Extra #46 in a “Sons Of Anarchy” bar fight scene.
No, no, no, don’t start this with someone else. I’m exhausted from all the JA bump-watch stories over the years. Not saying that Cam can’t change her mind, but this is totally not the message she’s been sending all this time (unlike JA who kind of has brought this on herself). Make it stop!
If Star told me the sun sets in the east I would question it.
Lol, the sun rises in the east. Or it does here.
So she’s ‘supposely’ ready to have a baby after 2 months of dating? LOL, sure. Two months to make up your mind and get married + baby? Who the heck is writing these stories.. teenagers? It seems like it’s the case.
Hahaa who needs to get married to have a baby… Do you know where babies come from?
She is one of a few actresses with the cajones to say she doesn’t want kids or marriage. I don’t see Benji Madden changing her mind.
LOL, what a load of horsesh-t. God, they must be desperate.
It never ceases to amaze me that women – even strong, independent, pro-feminism women – still feel the need to quantify and “explain” why they don’t have children. It’s interesting and very telling. When I was young, “The Pill” was controversial – the logic being that if you were on The Pill it’s because you are having a lot of sex, ergo you’re a slut. Thus, women taking The Pill were stygmatized. Abortions were considered taboo. Women had them, sometimes in unsafe conditions, sometimes having to cross state lines, but it was considered shameful and not spoken of. In general, it was thought if a woman had an abortion it was because she had sex out of wedlock and the guy didn’t step up “and do the right thing”. Single motherhood (the kind that doesn’t involve divorce or widowhood) was unthinkable. Again, if you had an abortion, it was presumed it was because you’re a slut.
In my lifetime (thankfully) these stigmas have largely been erased. Women take the pill out of a choice not to have children. Women have abortions out of choice (or perhaps medical reasons) but the hushed whispers of “she’s a slut” have largely disappeared as women empowered themselves over their own bodies. And yet – despite these strides – it still seems to be the accepted wisdom that women are “supposed” to have children. It’s what we do. It is our purpose. We are supposed to want to have children – and while many women DO want to have children, there is still a stigma against those women who do NOT want children; women whose biological clock alarm never goes off. Thus, we see women like Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston and countless others who – despite promoting an empowering message about women – STILL feel the need to “explain” their choice not to have children because deep in their brains, they are still programmed to believe they are supposed to. Therefore, if they don’t, there is something wrong with them that needs to be explained or defended. That makes me sad.
It makes me sad, too. I don’t have kids for many reasons (it’s complicated) and for whatever reason when questioned about it I feel like people expect an explanation. I don’t owe them anything and yet I get nervous and start to explain. It’s stupid and something that I need to work on. It’s hard sometimes not to internalize societal programming.
A bull s h i t article, but for those saying she doesn’t want kids, has she ever said that? I just thought she doesn’t have kids, wasn’t something burning on her agenda, was single and enjoying it and fulfilled, but I never thought she ruled out having children one way or the other if the right man was in her life and it felt right.
Don’t know which relationship is going to end in a bigger train wreck…Cameron/Benji or Charlize/Penn.
Not buying this about Cameron. She has always been confident and upfront when talking about have/not having kids and she marches to the beat of her own drum that way.
Does anybody else wonder when the heck she bacame “close” and “long-standing” friendship with Nicole Ritchie. I’ve never read or seen anything about that. I’ve never heard of Cameron being invited to Nicole’s kids’ bday party (Gwen Stefani yes, Christina Aguilera yes), I know Cameron is tight with Gwynneth, Drew and Lake Belle but never heard Nicole and her were super-tight? Anybody else or just me? One pic of them jogging a few weeks ago together , Cameron dating Benji and now they have this super-close friendship for awhile that we’ve never heard about? Seems liek PR??
I like. She’s ok w living her life and being single. I feel like she’s ok w it and not having kids and it’s good to see. Not everyone wants that