Former fashion model-turned-noughties rom com queen Cameron Diaz is back. And if we’re being honest, looking a little more bushed than her bombshell best.
Papped last week in New York on the set of Stephen Merchant’s new film, The Sham, the 53-year-old, mother-of-two doesn’t look a day over 55 – as the crinkles and crow feet attest.
After a decade-long Hollywood hiatus, this return is welcome. Yet while Diaz, a well-known diet and exercise fanatic, has a figure that could put women half her age to shame, her visage is in dire need of a refresh.
Perhaps, a shot of neurotoxin to smooth out that furrowed brow?
Oh no! Cameron Diaz wouldn’t think of it. Not anymore, at least.
‘I’ve tried [Botox] before, where it was like a little tiny touch of something,’ the Something About Mary star told Entertainment Tonight back in 2014.
Former fashion model-turned-noughties rom com queen Cameron Diaz is back (Pictured: Diaz while filming The Sham in New York City on April 13)
Papped last week in New York on the set of Stephen Merchant’s new romcom, The Sham, the 53-year-old, mother-of-two doesn’t look a day over 55 – as the crinkles and crow feet attest
‘It changed my face in such a weird way that I was like, “No, I don’t want to be like that.” I’d rather see my face ageing than a face that doesn’t belong to me at all.’
Easy for you to say, sweetie. Let’s not forget, Diaz, who made her debut alongside Jim Carry in The Mask almost 30 years ago, won the genetic lottery and remains striking even with a little wear and tear.
As only the third-ever female actor to hit the $20 million movie salary mark – for Gangs of New York and Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003) – Diaz is still an A-list power player able to make a successful comeback in her sixth decade and on her own terms.
The laughter lines aren’t so bad when you have been laughing your way to the bank for decades.
Diaz, however, doesn’t half rub every average gal’s scrunchy mug in it.
‘I literally do nothing. I like never wash my face,’ Diaz said of her beauty regime in 2022. ‘Twice a month, if I’m lucky, I’ll be like, “Oh, I better put this on. One time works, right?”‘
She doesn’t do Botox and she’s dirty? That’s just not fair. But where Diaz goes too far is her reported judgement of those who have met the forces of gravity face-first and fought back.
‘(Cameron) feels quite sorry for some of those peers that she’s still in touch with when she meets them for lunch and sees their faces contorted, full of fillers and looking puffy and weird,’ a source told OK Magazine in 2024.
Let’s not forget, Diaz won the genetic lottery and remains striking even with a little wear and tear (Pictured: Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu Charlie’s Angels – Full Throttle)
The laughter lines aren’t so bad when you have been laughing your way to the bank for decades
Where Diaz goes too far is her reported judgement of those who have met the forces of gravity face-first and fought back (Pictured: Diaz at the Met Gala in 2007)
Hold off with the smug sanctimony for a second, Cam. Yes, we all know the over-fillered fright shows, like Kylie Jenner and Chrissy Teigen, who give tweakments a bad name. But there are others, whether they admit it or not, who have plumped artfully and can still be identified in a line-up.
Of course, for women, especially those in Hollywood, when it comes to cosmetic surgery – you’re damned if you do, damned if don’t.
Recent weeks have reminded us of the frozen-faced time warps that trap many established stars.
Former Practical Magic co-stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock have never admitted to cosmetic surgery and they may be telling the truth. They may also be sorceresses. On the promotion trail for Practical Magic 2, the sequel to the 1998 hit, it seems the greatest trick is looking smoother than their 30-something selves in the original flick.
And where to even start with the wrinkle-free 50th anniversary reunion of the original Charlie’s Angel stars earlier this month. Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Cheryl Ladd, with a combined 231 years, were seemingly not so much touting the wind-tunnel effect face lifts as a force ten gale…
But there is certainly an achievable middle ground. And those women, dare we say, they look a whole lot fresher than you, Cameron.
Diaz’s au naturel stance can be seen as refreshing antidote to Hollywood’s often skewed beauty standards. But perhaps, in common with some other second-act A-listers, she’s riding the self-acceptance bandwagon a little too hard.
Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, and Cheryl Ladd (pictured, left to right), with a combined 231 years, were seemingly not so much touting the wind-tunnel effect face lifts as a force ten gale
Of course, for women, especially those in Hollywood, when it comes to cosmetic surgery – you’re damned if you do, damned if don’t (Pictured: Diaz in Charlie’s Angels – Full Throttle)
There’s bare-faced bore Pamela Anderson, another poster girl blessed with a pretty privilege and full of worthier pretensions. She ‘bravely’ started stepping out free of warpaint in 2019, following the death of her longtime makeup artist, Alexis Vogel.
‘I really didn’t know anyone would notice it,’ she told People in 2023 somewhat implausibly. ‘But I’m glad it became a positive message.’ Cue much gushing from the fashion press and an over enthusiastic Drew Barrymore who interviewed the star on her chat show in 2024.
‘You really own this space, you’re a real pioneer,’ she drawled to Anderson who on this occasion had waivered slightly by sporting pale brown eyeshadow.
Ditching the lippie has given Anderson her long-awaited credibility and a new lease of life, not to mention saved her a fortune in cleanser, but in truth the fangirling adulation around the 58-year-old’s pared-back look has become as tired as her mascara-free eyes.
Barrymore, then in raptures over how Anderson, told her she had started ‘a movement,’ but I don’t see too many others following suit. And there’s good reason for that.
Most of us know we’d look anaemic or shattered attempting to compete with the glam squad in front of the flash bulbs with little more than a slick of Vaseline.
Let’s not kid ourselves any of this represents some wider revolution in how women are represented in Hollywood or treated by society.
For now, at least, self-acceptance and authenticity is for a select few with the right bone structure and even that isn’t enough to stop father time.
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