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Cameron Diaz Says Couples Should Have SEPARATE Bedrooms
Boys mightiness laughter astatine girls erstwhile they're not funny, but Benji Madden has ne'er had to fake it with Cameron Diaz.
"I'm a full goofball," Cameron told Cosmopolitan about her attack to dating successful 2000, "and I deliberation guys spot however overmuch of an idiot I tin marque of myself truthful they aren't disquieted astir embarrassing themselves."
Naturally, there was thing astir the Charlie's Angels star too her presumably adorable idiocy that attracted the Good Charlotte rocker when helium was invited to a meal enactment Cameron hosted successful 2014 with Benji's sister-in-law Nicole Richie and her husband, Joel Madden.
And the feeling was mutual, due to the fact that the mates hightailed it to the altar less than a year after that fateful gathering, tying the knot astatine location connected Jan. 5, 2015. They present stock daughter Raddix, 4, and son Cardinal, whose accomplishment they announced successful March.
When it came to meeting The One, "it was 1 of those things wherever everyone tells you, 'You conscionable cognize erstwhile you know,'" Cameron, who's celebrating her 52nd day Aug. 30, recalled connected Andy Cohen's Radio Andy successful 2016. "I was like, 'What does that mean?'" But erstwhile she and the instrumentalist she affectionately referred to arsenic "Benj" were yet successful the aforesaid country together, she got it.
"You conscionable cognize erstwhile you know," she reiterated. "Like, you're my husband."
Cameron and Benji have been singing each other's praises ever since—though in a comparatively debased key since their romance truly took off.
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Having logged clip arsenic 1 of the highest-paid actresses successful Hollywood and aft spending 20 years navigating the highs and lows of planetary fame, Cameron had already to take a elephantine leap backmost from her movie prima life following the merchandise of Annie in 2014. And since she didn't person a committed narration with societal media erstwhile she exited signifier close and hooked up with her eventual husband...
Et voilà, a disappearing enactment successful plain sight, trading successful the glare of the spotlight for the cozy lukewarm glow of Benji's love.
"He's truly taught maine to worth myself a batch more," Cameron reflected connected Michelle Visage's Rule Breakers podcast successful 2022. She didn't needfully expect to get that from marriage, she explained, due to the fact that she was utilized to "receiving truthful overmuch validation elsewhere and successful each these different ways."
But Benji and Raddix, astatine the clip their lone child, were each that mattered. "We cognize that, nary substance what, we tin conscionable spell and beryllium conscionable a household anyplace and we're fine," Cameron said. "We don't request immoderate of the things that we have—other than each other."
Though present they mightiness request a grounds player, Benji sharing successful the rarest of comments astir his household satellite that determination was ever euphony connected astatine home.
"The opus successful our location close present is 'Rock and a Hard Place,' [by] Bailey Zimmerman," the 45-year-old said on TODAY in October. "My girl ever says, 'Play "dam is broken."'" He laughed astatine the notation to the lyric that really goes, "It ain't broke yet, but damn, it needs fixin'," adding, "We're listening to records nonstop."
Raddix has besides been treated to astatine slightest an album's worthy of archetypal kids' music, according to Cameron, who successful summation to admiring Benji's hotness from mode back, also calls him the "best dada ever."
"He has, like, the champion songs," she informed Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in October. "They play successful my caput each the clip due to the fact that helium sings them to her, and she knows the words, and it's the sweetest happening ever."
But portion these sorts of behind-the-scenes details bash get shared connected occasion, Cameron and Benji are connected the aforesaid leafage astir chiefly keeping their household beingness to themselves. Raddix's birth toward the extremity of 2019 marked a uncommon juncture wherever they utilized societal media to interruption idiosyncratic news, and they followed suit successful announcing Cardinal's commencement successful March.
"He is awesome and We are each truthful blessed helium is here!" work a March 22 post to their respective Instagram accounts. "For the kids information and privateness we won’t beryllium posting immoderate pictures- but he’s a truly cute...We are feeling truthful blessed and grateful...Sending overmuch emotion from our fam to yours."
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"I don't travel from this epoch of sharing my life," Cameron, whose Instagram is mostly devoted to work-related fun, cooking and her Avaline vino business, said connected the Everything Iconic With Danny Pellegrino podcast successful November 2020. "That's ever been thing I've been precise protective of, due to the fact that I travel from the epoch of tabloid invasion into my privacy and radical stalking maine and pursuing me. So my instinct has ever been to support myself from not having the satellite cognize what I'm doing oregon wherever I'm going astatine immoderate fixed constituent conscionable truthful that I could exist."
Benji does bash birthdays, however, specified arsenic erstwhile helium called himself "the LUCKIEST feline ALIVE" connected his wife's 45th successful 2017, oregon past Aug. 30, erstwhile helium shouted retired his "beautiful wife, champion friend, champion spouse successful everything, thrust oregon die," etc., for her 51st.
And portion Cameron is recently unretired, having shot the upcoming Netflix movie Back successful Action with Jamie Foxx, which is owed retired Nov. 15, she could person ne'er acted again and inactive determination would person been wide involvement successful her romantic endgame—not slightest acknowledgment to her quietly epic dating history.
"I'm grateful for each of it—whether it was thing speedy and passing oregon thing that lingered excessively long," Cameron told InStyle about 2 months earlier she and Benji were first photographed hand-in-hand, confirming dating rumors without saying a word. "There is not 1 happening I've been done that hasn't been a acquisition that led maine to this moment, and I can't judge however large beingness keeps getting."
Her endorsement of abstracted bedrooms (plus 1 successful the mediate for their "relations") aside, you tin much often find her waxing rhapsodic astir home life.
"I emotion being married," Cameron gushed connected the YouTube bid Makeup & Friends in 2020. "The champion happening that's ever happened to maine is uncovering my husband, and our partnership, and our friendship." Moreover, she added, "I emotion being a mother. It's the best, best, champion portion of my life. I'm truthful grateful and truthful blessed and it's the champion happening ever and I'm truthful fortunate to bash it with Benj and we're having the champion time. I'm thrilled. I can't judge it."
If you request to spot it to judge it, cheque retired Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden's emotion communicative successful photos:
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!"
(Originally published Jan. 5, 2024, astatine 4 a.m. PT)
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