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Cameron Diaz’s Husband Benji Madden Gushes Over Ten Years With His “Queen”
Lifestyles of the affluent and the scared.
Good Charlotte members Joel Madden and Benji Madden revealed that 1 of the secrets to their marriages to Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz, respectively, is that they're conscionable a small spot frightened of them.
"We each respect our wives," Joel said connected the latest occurrence of SiriusXM's Literally! With Rob Lowe. "They are perfectly our counterparts, and we each person a steadfast fearfulness of our wives. In the champion way. I don't cognize if I ever thought idiosyncratic could support me."
"It's not that I was a narration guy, but past I met Nicole and she perfectly runs the show," the 46-year-old went on. "But we are partners. So there's aspects that I run, but there's a full portion of my beingness that would not enactment if she wasn't determination moving it."
The "Girls & Boys" hitmaker—who shares girl Harlow, 17, and lad Sparrow, 15, with the Simple Life star—added that helium appreciates the spot that his wife brings to their household.
"She gave maine a mode deeper, richer beingness due to the fact that of the aspects of my beingness that she oversees, and vice versa," Joel explained. "I deliberation we enactment together, but she's strong. I respect her and fearfulness her a small bit."
Benji, 46, agreed, saying that gathering Cameron provided him with a dependable beingness that helped him to get his beingness together.
"It's much than conscionable a portion of your life," helium shared. "It's a full foundation. Like Cameron, erstwhile we met, it was similar the satellite conscionable went similar this," earlier indicating that his satellite was the close broadside up.
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"That's the queen," Benji added. "Go against my wife? Good luck. I don't adjacent request to get involved."
The musician—who shares daughter Raddix, 5, and son Cardinal, 12 months, with the Charlie's Angels actress—also noted that the beardown women successful him and his brother's lives besides privation beardown counterparts by their sides.
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"When you deliberation astir the almighty women that are conscionable these forces of nature—I deliberation each of our wives are absorbing successful the information that they besides don't privation to beryllium with a pushover guy," Benji explained. "They inactive request a beardown counterpart, but you person to besides not person the ego."
The penetration into his matrimony with Cameron comes aft helium expressed akin sentiments portion celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary.
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“This is my QUEEN,” the Good Charlotte member wrote in a Jan. 16 Instagram post. “I observe this BAD ASS WOMAN. Wife, Mommy, friend, partner, Boss, and lover. We conscionable deed 10 YEARS joined connected January 5th and each twelvemonth lone gets much fulfilling. It’s special.”
“Never perfect—always real—always reliable," helium continued. “Every time getting to person my champion person with maine thrust oregon die. What a beauteous life. I americium GRATEFUL!!! and ANOTHER MiLESTONE happening TOMORROW!!! We are SO blessed to spot you….BACK IN ACTION!!….Congrats baby!”
Keep speechmaking for much connected their 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!"
