For over two decades, actress Cameron Diaz made her mark in Hollywood, becoming an A-list movie star in her own right. But in the last five years, Diaz, now 51, has embraced a new chapter in her life as a mother.
"I love being a mother. It's the best, best, best part of my life," Diaz said in an April 2020 interview with Katherine Power, then the CEO of the digital fashion publication company and lifestyle brand Who What Wear.
"I'm so lucky to do it with Benj, and we're having the best time. I'm thrilled," she added.
Diaz and musician Benji Madden of the rock band Good Charlotte married on Jan. 5, 2015, in Beverly Hills, California, and became parents for the first time in December 2019 after welcoming a daughter named Raddix.
The couple announced they had welcomed a second child in March 2024 in a surprise Instagram post.
Cameron Diaz and husband Benji Madden welcome 2nd childDiaz, who is set to return to the big screen in 2025 in an upcoming film with Jamie Foxx, stepped away from Hollywood in 2014 to focus her time on her family.
While speaking on a panel at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2024, the actress discussed her decision to take some time away from her acting career.
"It felt like the right thing for me to reclaim my own life, and I just really didn't care about anything else," she explained during the conversation. "Nobody's opinion, nobody's success, no one's offer, no one's anything could change my mind about my decision of taking care of myself and building the life that I really wanted to have. I think it really comes to what are you passionate about, for me it was to build my family."
Although the celebrity couple are keen on protecting their young children's privacy by not sharing their photos online, the proud parents of two have opened up in the past about their excitement about starting a family, especially as older parents.
"The whole concept of aging has just changed completely, even in the last 10 years," Diaz told Gwyneth Paltrow in a May 2020 interview with "The goop Podcast." "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. 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."
Below, get to know Diaz and Madden's family.
In January 2020, Madden and Diaz shared a celebratory Instagram post wishing fans and followers a Happy New Year but also revealed their family's big news.
"We are so happy, blessed and grateful to begin this new decade by announcing the birth of our daughter, Raddix Madden," the couple wrote jointly in a Jan. 3, 2020, Instagram post.
"She has instantly captured our hearts and completed our family," the couple continued, before adding, "While we are overjoyed to share this news, we also feel a strong instinct to protect our little one's privacy. So we won't be positing pictures or sharing any more details, other than the fact that she is really really cute!! Some would even say RAD:)"
Madden gushed about becoming a father in a March 2020 post, writing "Being a Girl Dad is the best thing ever ❤️❤️❤️."
Diaz also praised her husband's role as a dad.
"He's such an amazing father. I'm so lucky he's my baby's father. He's incredible," she told Power in April 2020.
MORE: Benji Madden marks 8th wedding anniversary with Cameron Diaz: 'Let's do 80 more and then forever'Madden and Diaz again took to Instagram in March this year to announce the arrival of their second child, a son named Cardinal Madden.
"He is awesome and We are all so happy he is here!" the couple wrote in an Instagram post featuring a drawing with flowers, part of a boy's face and the phrase 'A little bird whispered to me.'"
Madden and Diaz also reiterated their wish to keep their kids' photos off social media.
"For the kids safety and privacy we won't be posting any pictures- but he's a really cute ☺️We are feeling so blessed and grateful 🍀Sending much love from our fam to yours," they wrote in the post's caption.
