Cameron Diaz and husband Benji Madden were spotted together for the first time in a year this week, leaving fans even more curious about the pair’s unlikely yet enduring relationship.
The Hollywood actress, 53, and Good Charlotte rocker, 46, married in 2015 and are parents to son Cardinal, 18 months, and daughter Raddix. five
Cameron has previously spoken about her tips for a healthy marriage, including her love of sex outdoors and belief that sleeping in separate beds and even separate homes should be ‘normalised’.
During a 2023 appearance on the Lipstick On the Rim podcast she said: ‘We should normalise separate bedrooms. to me, I would literally, I have my house, you have yours. ‘We have the family house in the middle. I will go and sleep in my room. You go sleep in your room. I’m fine.’
Cameron left the hosts stunned with the description of her ideal living situation, which she said would also feature a ‘room in the middle for relations’. But pointed out that this set up did not apply to her and Benji.
When it comes to sex, the Shrek star described herself to Playboy in 2010 as ‘primal’ and said how she enjoyed making love in the ‘open’ air.
Cameron Diaz and husband Benji Madden were spotted together for the first time in a year this week (pictured) leaving even more curious about their unlikely yet enduring relationship
The actress, 53, and Good Charlotte rocker, 46, married in 2015 and are parents to son Cardinal, 18 months and five-year-old daughter Raddix (pictured in 2016)
‘I’m primal on an animalistic level, kind of like, “Bonk me over the head, throw me on your shoulder. You man, me woman”, There’s something about moonlight on the body and things happening sort of free and open…’
She added: ‘I love to cuddle. I love physical contact. I have to be touching my lover, like, always. It’s not optional. It’s an absolute. My lover is everything to me.’
During a 2014 appearance on Chelsea Handler’s show, Chelsea Lately, Cameron stressed the importance of being educated about sex anatomy.
‘For me, the vagina is such an integral part of the body. We think the vagina is on the outside,’ she said before encouraging others to ‘learn about it’ and ‘get in there’ with consent.
‘You’re supposed to treat it like a beautiful flower — the delicate flower that it is. And you’re supposed to nurture it in all the ways that it needs nurturing. It’s hungry.’
The couple are also fans of therapy which Cameron said was another secret behind their enduring marriage.
Speaking on brother-in-law and Benji’s twin Joel Madden’s Artist Friendly podcast she said: ‘It’s what we depend on, so you have that commitment to work on it’ adding ‘it keeps her and Benji from doing ‘the same thing over and over.’
Cameron and Benji tied the knot in 2015 — just 10 months after being introduced by Nicole Richie.
Cameron has spoken about her tips for a healthy marriage, including sex outdoors to her belief that sleeping in separate beds and even living in separate homes should be ‘normalised’
When it comes to sex, Cameron described herself to Playboy in 2010 as ‘primal’ and said how she enjoyed making love in the ‘open’ air (pictured in 2001’s Vanilla Sky)
During a 2014 appearance on Chelsea Handler’s show, Chelsea Lately, Cameron stressed the importance of being educated about sex anatomy
‘We couldn’t be happier to begin our new journey together surrounded by our closest family and friends,’ the couple said in a statement to People.
In attendance were Reese Witherspoon, Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow, Samantha Ronson and Toni Collette.
Joel and Nicole’s son Sparrow, then five, served as the ring bearer. The bridesmaids were Nicole , Drew Barrymore, Cameron’s sister Chimene and her assistant Jesse Lutz.
During another episode of Benji’s podcast the bothers, both admitted that they ‘fear’ their ‘strong’ wives Cameron and Nicole.
Calling both Cameron and Nicole ‘queens’, Benji stated, ‘Go against my wife? Good luck. I don’t even need to get involved.’
Joel added, ‘We all respect our wives. They are absolutely our counterparts and we all have a healthy fear of our wives.’
‘You do not f**k with her,’ said Joel about Richie. ‘That’s the queen.’
Cameron retired from acting following her appearance in 2014’s adaptation of Broadway musical Annie before her shock return in 2022.
The couple are also fans of therapy which Cameron said was another secret behind their enduring marriage
Cameron and Benji tied the knot in 2015 — just 10 months after being introduced by Nicole Richie (L-R Nicole, Joel, Cameron, Benji 2016)
During another episode of Benji’s podcast the bothers, both admitted that they ‘fear’ their ‘strong’ wives Cameron and Nicole
Cameron is now close pals with sister-in-law Nicola, pictured with Lake Bell, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iona Vigi and Drew Barrymore
The actress welcomed Raddix a few months before COVID-19 started to spread and forced many to stay at home, as she joked about her baby previously being an ‘excuse’ to stay at home.
‘Before, my baby was an excuse to stay home, you know,’ Diaz said with a laugh. ‘Now I don’t have to make that excuse it’s just what it is, and I get to be with her,’ she said.
The Holiday star added that ‘the best part’ of staying ‘within our little bubble’ for lockdown was her husband, ‘gets to be home, he works from home and so he gets to be with her as much as I do.’
Cameron also gave a rare interview to Rolling Stone Magazine in 2020 and opened up about life and gushed: ‘In the last seven months I’ve entered the best phase of my life: motherhood!’
‘So it’s been all about my home and family. And I am trying to participate in a thoughtful way in the larger and most important conversation that our society is currently engaged in,’ she added.
She also spoke about how having a child has changed her and husband Benji’s musical routine, revealing that the Good Charlotte rocker has already written a number of songs for her.
‘Well since we have a little one, we are really jamming out to some dope Sesame Street jams,’ she explained. ‘We got ‘Baby Shark’ in the mix, and of course Benj has written at least a dozen songs for her. So we are doing serious upbeat and often acapella jams over here.’
Cameron spoke about meeting Benji during an episode of the Anna Faris is Unqualified podcast which began streaming in September 2021.
Cameron also gave a rare interview to Rolling Stone Magazine in 2020 and opened up about life and siad: ‘In the last seven months I’ve entered the best phase of my life: motherhood!’
During her appearance on the program, the performer spoke about various aspects of her relationship and pointed out that she saw many differences between her spouse and his twin brother.
During the conversation, Cameron pointed out that she had initially encountered her now-husband through his relatives.
‘I met mine through my now sister-in-law and brother-in-law, I met them first and then they didn’t set us up but we were in the same room because of them, and then we found each other,’ she said.
The recalled that she ‘was like, “How come I didn’t see him before?” which her business partner Katherine Power noted was ‘funny because you saw his twin brother.’
The entrepreneur then expressed that, although Benji and Joel were similar in appearance, they each possessed separate qualities and their own personalities.
‘They’re not the same, they’re so different. Even though they’re twins, they’re very, very different obviously,’ she said.
Cameron went on to describe her first encounter with her now-husband, and she recalled that she was taken aback by his attractiveness.
She stated that she ‘saw him walking towards me and I was like, “Huh, he’s hot, I haven’t seen him before.”‘
The Charlie’s Angel actress then noted that she eventually became smitten with Benji when she understood that he possessed various attractive qualities.
She recalled that ‘when I saw…who he was, that’s what made me really be like, “Oh you, you’re special, you’re the guy, you’re the hidden gem in my life.”‘.
