I still haven’t read Cameron Diaz’s The Body Book, but it feels like I know the whole edition inside and out. Cameron knows how to promote her goods, and she has done so with enthusiasm. The last time we caught up with Cam, she was discussing how society is guilty of chauvinism and misogyny toward single women. Most of you agreed with her and were heartily amused with Cameron’s discussion of her downtown grooming habits as well.
Now things have gotten a little bit gross. Cameron stopped by to visit E!’s Chelsea Lately to promote the book. Instead of allowing Cameron to conduct a frank conversation, Chelsea invited Cam to perform an examination. Ugh. Let’s get to some excerpts about ciggies, diet coke, and more about grooming habits:
Why did Cam write her book? “I’m a science nerd. I like to know why things work the way they do. I thought that the body was probably the most important thing to understand how it works since we all have one, and we don’t really know that much about it.”
She compliments Chelsea’s bod: I know that you care about it and that you take care of it, and that makes me happy.”
Cam smoked until age 30: “One cigarette every once in awhile is not going to kill you.”
Diet Coke is bad, m’kay: “Nothing’s for free. My mama taught me that real early.”
The misunderstood woman flower: “We think the vagina is on the outside. I say grab a mirror and play along. Get in there. Learn about it. You’re supposed to treat it like the beautiful flower that is, the delicate flower that it is. And you’re supposed to nurture it in all the ways that it needs nurturing. Watering it. Fertilizing it. It needs nourishment. It’s hungry.”
More on pubes: “Because it’s a science book, and since we used to be covered in hair, and now we’re not except for a few places, I figure there’s a purpose for that hair. So I put some of the purposes for it and I also suggest that no mater how you enjoy grooming it throughout your life–whether it’s shave it all off, wax it all off, putt a bulls eye, birthday cake, I don’t care–just, girls, think about not taking it all off forever. Permanency means forever. It doesn’t come back. You might change your mind in a few years.”
[From Chelsea Lately on E!]
Cameron already advised women against permanent hair removal “down there.” I agree with her. It’s a pain in the [redacted] to groom that stuff, but seriously, she’s got a point. Do you want to be 80 years old and have nothing to camouflage the effects of gravity? I don’t think so. Leave some options for the future. Referring to one’s vag as a flower is a bit silly and hippie-ish, but I think Cameron is joking. Maybe?
Here’s a video clip of Cam’s appearance. Feel free to ignore the host.
Photos courtesy of WENN
God, I just can’t with this woman.
This.
Any grown woman who refers/compares her vagina to a flower loses me instantly.
Me, too. The whole thing about the beautiful flower, it’s hungry, it needs fertilizer, wink, wink, get it?!? Please. I’m not 4.
Flower I can sorta stomach. It’s the fertiliser and the rest *winkwink* that makes me hurl.
I mean, if she’s SO into science, what happened to being factual?
Fertilizer. Fertilizer? What?
Unless your O’Keefe I rather agree.
(Except in jest then I’m onboard)
So she’s like the cool/hippie/relaxed version of Goop ?
It hurts to say but I prefer the original, way more entertaining
She used to be cool, Gwyneth the most hideous inside and out – truly, has affected her. Really sad because people adored Cam and she deserved it. Now she is almost as bad with the attention grabbing antics as Gwyneth. BUT, still much better a person than GOOP and at least Cameron is not humiliating her kids as Gwyneth has done and does for years (reason they left London, partly, no doing it here)! No one likes Goop and everyone dumps her sooner or later, so hope Cameron does it soon. It was Gwyneth and her friend Tracy Anderson that sent Nicole Richie back into an eating disorder (reoccurred right after they became friendly after GOOP used her for PR.) Gwyniee has no conscious and is bad news, really. Cam get away! And Chris get out llke you have tried to for years.
Is she serious?
Why is Chelsea getting a pass for her Oscar tweets? I am surprised there is not more a backlash against her. I am also side-eyeing her Hollywood blonde besties (Reese/Jennifer/Charlize).
What about her brunette bestie, Sandra Bullock? People like to forget her when listing Chelsea’s homegirls, but she frequently has Handler over for parties, appeared faux nude in a CL sketch, and asked Handler to speak at her Hollywood star ceremony.
I think it’s Sandra’s status as the “betrayed woman” that has some people bending over backward in order to give her a pass. Thing is she has the power to not be ‘friends’ with this racist, most of these faux friends do, yet they hang with her anyway. I really don’t get it, what’s really at play here? I’d like to know.
Yeah…. A grown woman speaking about her “flower” cannot love science and be as comfortable with her own body and with sex as she’d have us believe. Because, you know, it’s called A VAGINA.
I said the same thing before reading your comment. And I agree.
No, it is not called a vagina. It is called a vulva. Why do so many people keep using the word vagina to describe it??? The vagina is inside the body and does not have pubic hair on it.
Exactly! Women complain that she’s not using proper terminology, but don’t even seem to know it’s “vulva” not “vagina”
Facepalm.
I am really really tired of people referring to their vagina as if that’s the entire thing. In general, it’s a pussy, people. The vagina is only the canal and if you want to get specific, I agree, use the specifics.
It’s a euphuism — most of us know the whole thing isn’t the vagina. Regardless of the anatomy — it’s just part of the euphuism.
So Diet Coke is bad….but cigarettes are not. Yup, that sounds like great logic.
And Marianne, totally backed by science too.
(That’s a tongue-in-cheek comment)
Gwyneth infuriates my friends in the medical field for her irresponsible, dangerous, ignorant claims about health, wonder if they will think this is a little better….?
At least she is very fit in her life most of the time so I will just lightheartedly ignore it. My fav celeb banging on about the evils of Diet Coke was Kirstey Alley……………..
(and yes I know Diet Coke is not great for you)
This jumped out at me as well.
She has been looking really good lately, so whatever she’s doing differently is working.
The vagina IS what is in the outside. It dives me nuts when people refer to the vulva and labia as the vagina. What the hell is she doing writing a book about all this?
You mean inside. The vagina is internal, the vulva external.
No ma’am, I can’t. Not today.
She looks like shit. And doesn’t sell it well. Why the hell would I buy a book trying to copy her? She’s always looked a little bit off to me.
“I thought the body was the most important thing to study since we all have one.” <<~
It's like she took home a briefcase and glasses from set and practiced smart in the mirror.
Anatomy lesson of the day: Vulva – the collective outer genital. Labia – literally, lips, majora and minora. Vagina – internal canal leading to the cervix and uterus.
This “hungry vagina” business of hers reminds me of the old legend of vagina dentata…vaginas with teeth! Maybe Cam has a little something extra in her flower.😊
I think she’s pretty funny and grounded. An older friend told me that pubes can fall out as you age so what you do now might not matter when you’re 65. Pubes do what they want.
OMG. It’s two paragraphs in a beauty book. Saying something romantic about your vagina shouldn’t be a hanging crime.
agree
Ok i need to ask a question which is pretty gross but you went for it Bedhead…Do old women have hair down there? I mean do they even come out after a certain age? Just curious..
I’ve seen enough to know that it is *usually* very sparse to bald. Also gravity affects the labia majora and the testicles.
And that’s not to mention what illness does to them either. I was amazed at how common swollen testicles are on an ICU floor. BTW, those babies can get BIG and are really painful.
*shudder*
@lady, yes! Hydrocele!
Well it made me laugh my head off, the visual images that conjoured, watering cans, ‘Growmore’ fertiliser, contortionism – what colour is the sky in her world?
As for being 80 and gravity and all that, my near-senile/possibly actually very senile husband’s grandma (she’s 90) once told me (out of the clean damn blue!!): “Honey, don’t you worry about gravity. Or age. Your vagina doesn’t age like the rest of you. It doesn’t droop, get wrinkly, or change much. That’s one nice thing–I’m 88, but my vag doesn’t look it.” Yes, she said VAG…bwahahaha!!
Since then, I’ve kind of wondered how true her statement was. Not that it matters, either way.
I’m just curious ( not being mean in any way): why has her face changed so much? She didn’t have plastic surgery and from what I read only sparingly used Botox injections. BUT! We all change with age but most people who take care of themselves (and she does, I can tell) kind of look like themselves when they were young. Just older. Cameron’s face looks completely different. She used to be incredibly hot and she’s not exactly ugly not, but she just looks like a whole different person. She didn’t gain or lose too much weight, so I’m just curious – why has she changed so drastically…
It cracks me up when celebs write lifestyle books, as though they’re privy to information about life and how to live it that we mere plebs are not.
As I age, I’m getting more and more gray pubes, which i don’t particularly like, but the vag and vulva still work wonderfully for me and my partners.
I suspect she is somewhat obsessed with her “flower” to the point of no return.
watever i luv flowers…esp hers
Ur flowers….omg…they need em.i gotta fertlize…