Cameron Diaz is not afraid to age.
On the contrary, the actress even hopes to become a centenarian.
“I'm all excited.
I have 50 or 60 years left.
I want to live to be 110 since I had a young child,” she said in an interview with
Goop
, the cosmetics brand founded by Gwyneth Paltrow.
The mother of little Raddix Madden, two, reiterated her joy at having discovered motherhood at 47: “I am the oldest mother in my group of friends with children, and it is great.
I am lucky to be my age, lucky to have these girlfriends, lucky to have my daughter,” she continues.
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The approach of fifty is not enough to scare the star of
Mary at all costs
, who says she comes from a “robust” family and intends to maintain a regular sports routine: “I look forward to all aspects of future growth in your 50s.
I work on building my muscle mass, as my hormones change,” she reveals.
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The pressure of being “sexualized”
The author of The
Book of Longevity
welcomes the fact that women's voices are freeing up about aging: “The whole concept of aging has completely changed, even in the last ten years.
He's totally opened up," Cameron Diaz observes, admitting, however, to being well aware of the signs of the passage of time: "I want to feel young, of course - we all look in the mirror from time to time and say, "Oh, that's different".
And I'm not opposed to all the procedures [of medicine and cosmetic surgery] that people want to do,” she says.
I want to be strong and healthy, have flexibility and resilience in my body so I can do the things I want to do.
Cameron Diaz
On the other hand, the one who left the film industry almost a decade ago does not want to give in to the injunctions of beauty: “As women in our society, we are under so much pressure to be highly sexualized, thinking that we must be sexually desired at all times.
I'm here to say I'm past that: I don't care!
I want to be strong and healthy, to have flexibility and resilience in my body to be able to do the things I want to do,” says the actress.
A “positive age” speech more and more widespread by her colleagues, such as Jennifer Garner, Jane Fonda or Jamie Lee Curtis.
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