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Cameron Diaz & Benji Madden Welcome Baby No. 2!
Cameron Diaz needed a small other propulsion to marque her instrumentality to Hollywood.
And the idiosyncratic to bash it? Her husband, Benji Madden. After stepping distant from her acting vocation successful 2014, Cameron is acceptable to instrumentality to the large surface successful 2025—and it’s each acknowledgment to the Good Charlotte rocker.
“We were successful the location for a agelong time, which was amazing,” the 52-year-old prima said during an Oct. 15 speech astatine Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit. “So, I had to propulsion myself. My husband, he’s conscionable the best. He was conscionable like, ‘You've been supporting america and gathering the family.’ And supporting him successful his businesses. He's like, ‘It’s clip for america to enactment you and fto mommy ascend and bash her bash her thing.’”
In her clip distant from Hollywood, Cameron and Benji—who got joined successful 2015—went connected to privately invited 2 children done surrogate, a daughter, Raddix, 4, and lad Cardinal, 6 months.
And for the Sweetest Thing star, the determination to locomotion distant from her vocation onscreen was due to the fact that she wanted to instrumentality the clip to turn her family.
“It felt similar the close happening for maine to reclaim my ain life, and I conscionable truly didn't attraction astir thing else,” she shared. “Nobody's opinion, nobody's success, nary one's offer, nary one's thing could alteration my caput astir my determination of taking attraction of myself and gathering the beingness that I truly wanted to have. I deliberation it's it truly comes to what are you passionate about? For maine it was to physique my family.”
However, Cameron volition soon grace the surface erstwhile much arsenic she’ll prima alongside Jamie Foxx successful the movie Back successful Action. In fact, it was her present three-time collaborator—she and Jamie antecedently worked unneurotic on Annie and Any Given Sunday—who helped promote her return.
“I couldn't accidental nary to Jamie,” Cameron noted during the Forbes conversation. “He said, ‘Come with me.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, let's bash it.’ It's our 3rd movie together.”
The Charlie’s Angels histrion previously spoke astir moving with Jamie and wherefore it wasn’t hard to get backmost into the groove alongside him.
The past movie I made was Annie with Jamie, and truthful the archetypal movie backmost is this movie with Jamie," she said during an 2022 quality connected The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "He's truthful great, he's truthful easy, he's truthful professional, he's truthful talented, and conscionable being capable to enactment with him."
She added, "It volition beryllium truthful overmuch fun."
Keep speechmaking for much connected Cameron and Benji's romance...
December 2014: Engagement Rumors
One period earlier tying the knot, Cameron Diaz flashed what appeared to beryllium an engagement ring from Benji Madden.
Jan. 5, 2015: Married!
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Jan. 27, 2015: Courtship to Courtside
The newlyweds were each loved up watching the Lakers play the Wizards successful L.A.
March 2015: Wearing His Love
April 2016: Cameron Opens Up
The There's Something About Mary star opens up connected Andy Cohen's Radio Andy show astir however she and Benji met.
"The archetypal happening I said erstwhile I archetypal met my hubby was, 'He's hot,'" she says. "How travel I didn't cognize this before? We had ne'er been successful the aforesaid circle."
Cameron adds that they formally met erstwhile she hosted a meal enactment astatine her location with his member Joel Madden and sister-in-law Nicole Richie. Joel asked if helium could invitation Benji. Cameron says, "Then I saw him again. Wait a second, inactive hot!"
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June 2016: We Are Family
Nicole Richie's dada Lionel Richie, hubby Joel Madden, sister-in-law Cameron and brothers-in-law Josh (on the left) and Benji showed up to enactment her Harlow 1960 x REVOLVE launch.
June 2018: Back to Italy
August 2019: Cameron Reflects connected Marriage
"Getting joined to him was the champion happening that ever happened to me," she tells InStyle astir Benji. "My husband's the best. He's the top quality being, and he's my large partner. Marriage is surely hard, and it's a batch of work. You request idiosyncratic who's consenting to bash the enactment with you, due to the fact that there's nary 60-40 successful marriage. It's 50-50, period. All the time."
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January 2020: Oh, Baby!
Cameron and Benji denote connected Instagram that they person welcomed a babe girl, Raddix Madden.
August 2023: Birthday Love
"I'm disconnected enactment mostly these days, conscionable working, painting, making things and doing household life, but I person grown to similar my small contented of coming backmost connected peculiar occasions to amusement emotion to my Queen," Benji wrote connected Instagram. "so today, it's a precise Happy Birthday to my beauteous wife, champion friend, champion spouse successful everything, thrust oregon die, top Mom to our small girl, @Avaline vino boss, household chef, advisor, collaborator and everything else."
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March 2024: A Bigger Brood
The mates announce the accomplishment of their 2nd child, a lad named Cardinal Madden.
"He is awesome," they stock successful a associated Instagram post, "and We are each truthful blessed helium is here!"
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