Cameron Diaz admitted she was feeling ‘the pressure’ to live a long and healthy life as an older mother, days before announcing the birth of her third child.
The Hollywood star, 53, and her musician husband Benji Madden, 47, shared news of the arrival of their son Nautas Madden in an Instagram post on Sunday, revealing they were ‘happy, excited, and feeling so blessed’.
The couple, who married in 2015, are already parents to daughter Raddix, six, and son Cardinal, two, who were born via a surrogate.
Just days before the surprise birth announcement, Cameron expressed her fears about being an older mother, admitting she is friends with other moms ‘literally 20 years younger.’
Reflecting on her decade-long acting hiatus during which she prioritised her marriage and children, Cameron said becoming a mother for the first time at the age of 47 has only made her more focused on ageing well.
‘I love being a mother. It’s the best, best, best part of my life. The only pressure for me now is I have to live to be, like, 107, you know?’
Cameron Diaz admitted she was feeling ‘the pressure’ to live a long and healthy life as an older mother, days before announcing the birth of her third child
‘The women who have children my age are literally 20 years younger and that’s an interesting place to be because I’m not that age’ she told OK! Magazine.
‘And that’s totally OK – but I want to feel vital like that for my child. I’m just trying to stay alive just like every other mother.’
Cameron previously spoke about her focus on longevity in a conversation with her close friend Gwyneth Paltrow, 53, declaring she wanted to live for at least another 50 years.
During a 2022 episode of Gwyneth’s Goop podcast, Cameron said: ‘The whole concept of aging has just changed completely, even in the last 10 years, it’s totally opened up.’
‘I’m excited. I’ve got 50 or 60 years to go – I want to live to be 110, since I’ve got a young child,’ she said of her firstborn, daughter Raddix.
‘I think you have this amazing moment in your 40s where you appreciate who your parents are, and I want to have that moment with her – be there with her in her 40s,’ she added.
Of being ‘the oldest mom in my group of girlfriends with kids,’ Cameron said she feels ‘lucky’ to have built up her village of support over many years. ‘I’m lucky to be my age, lucky to have those girlfriends, lucky to have my daughter, lucky to have all the support I do raising her.’
She added that her genetics are also in her favour when it comes to living a long life, explaining: ‘My family’s from sturdy stock. My grandmother was running around in the hot San Fernando Valley sun at 72, hauling big bags of rabbit feed and chicken feed around. I think I’ve got some of that.’
The Hollywood star, 53, and her musician husband Benji Madden, 47, shared news of the arrival of their son Nautas Madden in an Instagram post on Sunday
‘And as is true for most people, I think how I look and feel is some combination of what I do and what I don’t do.’
Cameron admitted during the interview that she ‘gives credit’ to her friend Gwyneth, who is mom to Apple Martin, 21, and Moses, 20, for persuading her to become a mother, despite waiting until later in life.
Gwyneth recalled having ‘those conversations back in the day, you saying “I’m not sure I want a kid”;.
‘You’re going to have a child if it’s the last thing you do! Yes you are!’ Cameron laughed, remembering. ‘I was not convinced I was going to!’
‘Of all the people, you just had to be a mother,’ insisted Gwyneth. ‘Not everybody wants to do it and that’s great but I knew you were one, I just had to pull her out of you.’
Cameron thanked her friend and told her ‘I love you for that, I think about it all the time and I totally give you credit. You and Benji.’
The actress – who returned to acting last year after taking a decade-long hiatus -will next star alongside Keanu Reeves in the new Apple TV film Outcome.
Spotted on the set of The Sham in recent weeks, Cameron has showed off her natural beauty after admitting she gave up Botox several years ago as she prefers to embrace natural aging
Alongside her work in Outcome, she is also currently filming movie The Sham alongside Stephen Merchant and will also revive her role as Princess Fiona in a new Shrek movie in 2027.
Cameron took a break from Hollywood in 2014 after the film Annie, but returned last year to star alongside Jamie Foxx in Back in Action.
Spotted on the set of The Sham in recent weeks, Cameron has showed off her natural beauty after admitting she gave up Botox several years ago as she prefers to embrace natural aging.
Over a decade ago, she said she ‘regretted’ how Botox ‘changed’ her face and revealed she stopped wearing heavy makeup in her 40s.
‘I’ve tried [Botox] before, where it was like [a] little tiny touch of something,’ she recalled.
‘It changed my face in such a weird way that I was like, “No, I don’t want to [be] like [that],”‘ she told Entertainment Tonight in 2014.
She added: ‘I’d rather see my face aging than a face that doesn’t belong to me at all.’
