Cameron Diaz: ‘I like protecting people but was never drawn to being a mother’

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Cameron Diaz covers the August issue of Esquire. You can see the cover here. Her body looks so tight, but I am not fond of the high-cut bikini look popularized lately by Miley Cyrus. At least this shoot was taken by Vincent Peters instead of Terry Richardson like Cameron’s 2013 Esquire cover. I hope Esquire is done with Terry for good, but he’ll probably be back.

Cameron is promoting her S*x Tape movie, which stars Cami and Jason Segel as a married couple who accidentally uploads their “footage” to the cloud. Cami has toned down her press presence a bit (thank goodness), so we’re not being assaulted by quotes about her vadge habits. She does talk once again about how she’s not going to have kids. Cam previously said that she’s “not a spinster” simply because she chose not to have children. It sucks that she has to confront that stereotype, but Cami comes out with all cylinders firing:

On her first full-on nude scene: “It’s a first for me. But Jason gets naked, too. It’s just a part of the role. So I did it. I mean you see everything.”

She’s lucky to be an actress: “It’s a weird job, right? [For S*x Tape] I found myself in a room in the middle of nowhere Massachusetts at 11:00 at night doing a childbirth scene, and everybody’s screaming at one another – Jason, the cameramen, the director. And me acting like I’m trying to push a basketball out of my vajoon. Crazy sh*t, right? And the thing is, I always take a moment to say, ‘We’re lucky. This is a great job. A fun job.'”

On aging: “I like being 41. I love it. So much sh-t just falls away. Fear, mostly. It’s the best age. That’s when a woman knows how to work things, or she doesn’t care about that anymore. You just stop being afraid. You don’t worry about what men think. You just don’t worry that time registers anything awful.”

Nope, she still doesn’t want a baby:“It’s so much more work to have children. To have lives besides your own that you are responsible for — I didn’t take that on. That did make things easier for me. A baby — that’s all day, every day for eighteen years. Not having a baby might really make things easier, but that doesn’t make it an easy decision. I like protecting people, but I was never drawn to being a mother. I have it much easier than any of them. That’s just what it is. Doesn’t mean life isn’t sometimes hard. I’m just what I am. I work on what I am. Right now, I think, things are good for me. I’ve done a lot. And I don’t care anymore.”

[From Esquire]

I love that Cameron comes out and says, “I don’t care anymore” at the end of her baby discussion. Not every woman constantly dreams of having babies. Take that, media. Will Cameron have to answer this question again? Probably.

Cameron is still dating Benji Madden, who recently confirmed their relationship in a radio interview. He says he’s “a lucky guy.” I’m including photos of Benji last week at the Best Little Cat House in LA. Our photo agency says he was buying a kitten for Cami. That’s a risky gift!

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet

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