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I think Cameron Diaz seems to be taking the lead on promotional duties for Knight & Day, which says more about Tom Cruise than Camy. Over the past few days, a few major Camy interviews have come out, so I’m just going to run through the highlights. The Playboy interview actually sounds much more interesting than anything else Camy has done so far – she actually talks about Alex Rodriguez – well, enough to deny being in a relationship with him, which I take to mean they’re just f-ck buddies. She’s also the July cover girl for InStyle Magazine, and in that interview, she talks about how she doesn’t really want to be a mom, kind of.
Is she dating Alex Rodriguez? “No, no, no,” Diaz, 37, says when asked if they’re an item. “I’ve been in relationships since I was 16-years old. In the past three years I’ve made a conscious decision not to be in a relationship for as long as I want. I’ve stayed away from all the traps out there for me to just fall into something that will potentially lead me down the same road … I want to have a relationship with myself right now.”
On working with her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake: “We’re adults,” she tells Playboy. “Of course, we could work together. It’s been three years since we broke up. It’s all done … We’re friends; he’s really talented and funny, and we’re good at being funny together. A great dynamic we have is that we love laughing together … he’s so hilarious.”
On dating, and douchebags: “I never shut down any man who’s willing to ask me out unless he’s a total douchebag,” Diaz says. “It takes a lot for a guy to ask out a girl like me – not because I think I’m superspecial or anything. It’s just that I think men are intimidated, and it’s a lot to get involved with. It’s not uncomplicated.”
On “successful” relationships: “I’ve had really successful relationships, even though they’ve lasted only a certain amount of time. I’m okay with that. With some of the relationships that have drawn public interest, I feel as though I’ve evolved, learned and become better equipped. I don’t feel I need to make it different for the outside world that’s looking in and judging it.”
On the difference between love and sex: “Sexuality and love can be different things,” she says. “I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn’t mean I want to be in love with a woman. If I’m going to be with a woman sexually, it doesn’t mean I’m a lesbian. We put these restraints and definitions on people, but it’s hard to define.”
On being a parent: “I can be a pretty good aunt, but whether I’m a good aunt or a crappy aunt is really not remotely the same question as me being a good parent or a crappy parent,” Diaz, says in the July issue of InStyle magazine, on newsstands Friday. “It doesn’t quite have the same impact.”
On the potential to become a mother: “Having children changes your life drastically, and I really love my life,” she says. “Children aren’t the only things that bring you gratification and happiness, and it’s easier to give life than to give love, so I don’t know. That kind of change would have to be either very well thought out, or a total mistake – a real oops!”
On being older and wiser: “When you’re in your 20s, you have no idea what the hell’s going on or who you are or how the world works… Wisdom is really underrated.”
On the youth-obsessed culture: “We are obsessed with youth, with physical youth, what we look like and what happens to our bodies as we get older… We forget what happens to our souls, our minds, and our actual human experience.”
[From People Magazine & Us Weekly & Stylelist]
Eh. When taken in small doses, I do like Cameron Diaz, but sitting down and reading a few interviews with her all in a row is annoying. I can’t put my finger on it, though. I’ve always liked Camy because she’s not a pity party kind of person, she’s a total pro who never badmouths anyone, and she’s able to talk about her own growth as a woman without sounding like she’s regurgitating from a self-help book. Usually. But these interviews – especially the quotes from InStyle – seemed very self-helpy to me, very Jennifer Aniston. I mean, I get it, Cameron’s aging in an industry where aging is bad. She feels older and wiser. Good for her. But it feels like she’s just feeding us jargon in lieu of her real ideas on the subject matter.
InStyle cover courtesy of Just Jared. Header: Camy on June 6, 2010. Credit: WENN
Written by Kaiser
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Meh. I don’t think she’s going to wear well in the long run- her looks are kind of fading and she’s not that interesting as an older role model.
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I agree, she was super cute 10 years ago, now, not so much.
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call me crazy, but isn’t being “sexually attracted to a woman” the exact definition of being a lesbian? Its the sexual pull that defines gay isn’t it? Doesn’t “want” to be in love with a woman? do people really have a choice who they are in love with? I think this was a foray into trying to be cutting edge with revelations about her and she has NO sexual feelings towards girls, but wants to jump on the bandwagon of faux lesbianism cause its cool. She obviously has no idea though, cause none of that made any sense. Shes as dumb as I intially thought!
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She was never blessed with any smarts or any wit.
I’d rather watch her, not read her interviews. She is as vapid as Gwen Stefani.
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When I read it all I thought was blah, blah, blah!
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I’ve been hearing for years that Miss Cami was a lesbian, but never really picked up on it until she starting fake dating Justin “Pipsqueak” Timberfake.
But then again, maybe dating Timberfake turned her into a lezzie, since dating him is like dating another girl.
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It does sound a bit regurgitated, but I can’t knock anyone for furthering the trend of beautiful women refusing to be ashamed of their age. I’m not sure how much work Cameron has had done, but her age still shows, and it doesn’t make her any less beautiful. I just hope this means less emphasis on Botox and looking 20 and more emphasis on life experience in this industry (the vapidness that spews forth from younger stars these days can only help).
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Hmmm I don’t think she sounds as sad as Jen. Jen really doesn’t give the impression that she is entirely satisfied with life while Cam does. Cam looks satisfied. It shows in her smile and the way she dresses…Cam is good and I believe she is being honest about her life. Jen isn’t satisfied with her life, Jen has a therapist and what is it…a tribe of girlfriends to have a pity circle with or something and yoga and cigs. Cam has never mentioned a pity party, therapist, doesn’t attend self help book parties, and she doesn’t smoke. Cam is good. Cam is having fun and genuinely happy with life and doesn’t need a kid to complete her. I like that about her.
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I don’t think Cammy sound even remotely like Jen. In fact, she’s the opposite, a smart, sexy woman who has it all together. She has always said she doesn’t particuarly want kids and hasn’t wavered one bit on that. Jen seems to go on and on about how she wants kids “some day” but makes no effort to do it. Cammy is not a phoney like Jen.
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Actually Cam and Jen are the polar opposites. Cam is happy go lucky while Jen is bitter. I think she is still mad at Brad because he took her shit, didn’t she thank him saying “thank you to Brad Pitt for holding me together literally!” you’ve got to wonder what a mess she is in private. So you have to wonder if she really loved him or if she loved that he loved her. Clearly he wasn’t fulfilled, his number 1 thing was always to have a family and his wife was just not into that and she didn’t think he would leave but then he did. Oh man the nerve of him to do that to her! bitch pliz!!
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Huh. I really liked the interview. Although the part about lesbianism was a bit odd. She wants to sleep with women and not be a lesbian or bisexual. Sounds a bit like denial to me.
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I can’t believe that for more than 2hours i’ve struggled to finish this interview because of workload [Magic of getting involved in pple lives] huh?.
I honestly love Miss Diaz. She laughs and giggles like me. And she is whom she is.
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Like the way they flipped that cover rainbow so it wouldn’t be the PRIDE rainbow. Ha!
As far as she goes this interview actually is a better one of her, for me. She usually makes me insane. She does have a whif of Aniston, but with Aniston it seems more real. Whateve, I feel myself creeping towards likeing her. If she keeps it up I could become a fan.
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I don’t think it’s her fault but the journalist’s. Always asking when she’s going to be a mother, why not, ’cause she’s aging and she can’t do anything anymore? wtf
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I don’t get the desperation vibes from Diaz that Aniston puts out, nor the phony “Whoopee! Lookit me! I’m OK!” She sounds like a woman who knows who she is and where she’s going and is at peace with herself, and she’s not trying to prove anything to anybody.
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yeah, i agree with the others that say she’s fine. I think she’s happy with herself and content where she’s at. hard to know the context of some of the questions directed at her, so who knows why the lesbian thing came up…but she doesn’t seem uptight about it at all, in fact what said is very true about sexuality and love and whatnot. Anyway. I don’t get the whiff of Aniston at all. Cam seems way ahead of her in the self-respect dept. Except for the Rod thing. That’s the “why did I date that guy” time in one’s life, i guess.
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yeah, the lesbianism thing sounded weird and contrived, but it doesn’t seem like Cameron to play into that, so….??
I like her, I LOVE that she just SMILES in photos, no stupid posing. I think she’s aging gracefully with no work done and I totally respect her for that.
Wish she’d lay off the black eyeliner tho.
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She seems much more honest and confident than Aniston can you imagine Aniston working with any of her exes?
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I totally agree with Miranda Ann!
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I’m sorry, but Cammy has a well deserved reputation for being an airhead. It’s difficult to take her any other way than as an aging sorority girl who probably would be doing “Girls Gone Wild” had her acting career not taken off. I really don’t hold anything against her since she seems like a pretty harmless good time girl. Cammie, to me, is WAY more Kelly Bensimon than Aniston.
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I like Cam D. she’s a cool, laid back chick. She’s a little like Aniston and a little like Drew Barrymore. Gals who do the self reflection, self help, new age type of thinking. Nothing wrong with it.
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I really like Cameron Diaz – she’s funny and I agree with Kaiser about how she’s “not a pity party” kind of person. I also think she’s gorgeous – on that cover, however, she looks like Stephanie Pratt. eh.
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Nicely said Miranda Ann! I’m still not a fan of CD though.
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wish she looked as good as Aniston, she always looks like a witch, bad skin and face. nice photoshop/airbrushing.
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There were rumours a few years ago about her and Drew Barrymore, who’s bi, but I never really believed them. I think she’s straight. And I kinda get what she means. There’s a few guys I’d turn for because I’m attracted to them, but cannot picture having anything but a short-term fling with them.
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can you honestly imagine what kind of douches the vast majority of us would sound like if we were “interviewed” constantly? sort of like the crap we spew when trying to bag a job. no thank you!
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The only part that sounded self-helpy to me was the verbose answer she gave re: having children. Too many celebrities (women, anyway) who don’t want kids go around and around the topic, with “Oh, maybe later…it’s a big change, you know…” rather than just saying, “I don’t want kids.” The wordiness ends up sounding like fear and BS. Just say it. It’s not a crime to not want to be a mother.
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