The tabloid headline had been right, but for the wrong reasons. Cameron Diaz wasn't an angel. Angels are passive; they are statues on mantelpieces, perfect and silent.
In the late nineties, the world decided that Cameron Diaz was the sun. She was the radiant, infectious grin in The Mask , the wholesome sweetness that could stop traffic. She was the "Mary" with the hair gel, the It Girl who seemed to exist on a diet of laughter and sunshine. The industry tried to mold her into the archetypal "Angel"—a golden girl with a perfect smile and a safe career trajectory. Cameron Diaz She S No Angel
When asked about drugs, she famously copped to trying cocaine "a couple of times" in her twenties. When asked about aging, she doesn't sell snake oil; she wrote a book, The Longevity Book , admitting that she hates her neck getting older and that cellulite is inevitable. The tabloid headline had been right, but for
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"An angel would have suffered silently," she noted in a 2023 interview. "I decided to suffer in my garden." In the late nineties, the world decided that