Cameron Diaz’s Best Quotes About Becoming a Mom To Daughter Raddix: ‘I’m Very Fortunate To Be With Her’ as an ‘Older Parent’

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Cameron Diaz's Best Quotes About Becoming a Mom To Daughter Raddix: ‘I’m Very Fortunate To Be With Her’ as an ‘Older Parent’

Keeping her options open! Cameron Diaz opened up about possibly becoming a mom before welcoming her and Benji Madden’s daughter, Raddix, in January 2020. “Happy New Year from the Maddens!” the couple, who wed in 2015, captioned their Instagram reveal at the time. “We are so happy, blessed and grateful to begin this new decade by announcing the birth of our daughter, Raddix Madden. She has completely captured our hearts and completed our family. 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 posting pictures or sharing any more details, other than the fact that she is really really cute!! Some would even say RAD. From our family to all of yours, we’re sending our love and best wishes for a Happy New Year and Happy New Decade.” In 2018, a source told Us Weekly exclusively about the couple’s family plans. The actress “would love” to be a mom, the insider shared, adding that Diaz had unsuccessfully tried IVF, acupuncture and supplements in the hopes of conceiving. “It just hasn’t worked out yet,” the source explained. They don’t know exactly what it will look like, whether it will be natural or through adoption or surrogacy, but they aren’t giving up. It’s been a roller coaster of emotions, yet they still believe there will be a happy ending. Benji hasn’t gone through what Cameron has physically, but he always lets her know this is their struggle and they’re in it together. He would do anything for her.” [jwplayer ql3cRJK9-l3ahXupL] Diaz is “very happy” and “fulfilled” in her marriage, another source told Us exclusively the following year. “She feels she spent so many years working a grueling schedule,” the insider explained in July 2019. “She just wants to have a slow pace and normal routine now. She’s loving this time in her life.” Keep scrolling to see the Golden Globe nominee's best quotes about motherhood ahead of Raddix’s birth. [podcast_block]

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Cameron Diaz's Best Quotes About Becoming a Mom To Daughter Raddix: ‘I’m Very Fortunate To Be With Her’ as an ‘Older Parent’

Keeping her options open! Cameron Diaz opened up about possibly becoming a mom before welcoming her and Benji Madden’s daughter, Raddix, in January 2020. “Happy New Year from the Maddens!” the couple, who wed in 2015, captioned their Instagram reveal at the time. “We are so happy, blessed and grateful to begin this new decade by announcing the birth of our daughter, Raddix Madden. She has completely captured our hearts and completed our family. 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 posting pictures or sharing any more details, other than the fact that she is really really cute!! Some would even say RAD. From our family to all of yours, we’re sending our love and best wishes for a Happy New Year and Happy New Decade.” In 2018, a source told Us Weekly exclusively about the couple’s family plans. The actress “would love” to be a mom, the insider shared, adding that Diaz had unsuccessfully tried IVF, acupuncture and supplements in the hopes of conceiving. “It just hasn’t worked out yet,” the source explained. They don’t know exactly what it will look like, whether it will be natural or through adoption or surrogacy, but they aren’t giving up. It’s been a roller coaster of emotions, yet they still believe there will be a happy ending. Benji hasn’t gone through what Cameron has physically, but he always lets her know this is their struggle and they’re in it together. He would do anything for her.” [jwplayer ql3cRJK9-l3ahXupL] Diaz is “very happy” and “fulfilled” in her marriage, another source told Us exclusively the following year. “She feels she spent so many years working a grueling schedule,” the insider explained in July 2019. “She just wants to have a slow pace and normal routine now. She’s loving this time in her life.” Keep scrolling to see the Golden Globe nominee's best quotes about motherhood ahead of Raddix’s birth. [podcast_block]

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Anything Is Possible

“I think women are afraid to say that they don’t want children because they’re going to get shunned,” the Other Woman star told Cosmo U.K. in July 2009. “But I think that’s changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don’t have kids than those that do. And honestly? We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet.”

That being said, Diaz added, "I never say never. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I could end up adopting half a dozen kids, or I could end up being the next Octomom — who freaking knows?”

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Back and Forth

The California native was "not opposed" to having kids, she told InStyle in June 2010. "Having children changes your life drastically, and I really love my life. Children aren’t the only things that bring you gratification and happiness, and it’s easier to give life than to give love. So I don’t know. That kind of change would have to be either very well thought out, or a total mistake — a real oops!”

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No Pressure

She told the outlet in April 2012: “Society definitely puts pressure on women to make them think their lives should go a certain way. I’ve never said I don’t want children — I just haven’t had children yet. I don’t know what’s going to happen in my life! I could end up adopting children. I could end up with a partner who already has children. Who knows? I’m not trying to fit into anyone’s box about how I should be. I just fit in my own box.”

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Shrug

“I’m not sitting there going, ‘Oh my God, when am I going to get married? When am I going to have a baby?'” Diaz told Harper's Bazaar U.K. in May 2012. “I would be remiss if I was living my life wishing I had something other than what I have. If one day I am blessed with the experience of having a child, I would be overjoyed, but I am not sitting here feeling empty because I haven’t yet, or that I may not.”

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Following Footsteps

Diaz thought she'd be married with two kids by the time she turned 21, she told Redbook that same month. “I think I felt I had to model my life after my mother’s," she explained. "But then my career was starting to take off and there were still so many things I wanted to do. So that dream for me was shattered early on. After that, I never put another timeline on anything in my life.”

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Her Own Path

“I just kind of like how things unravel and life kind of reveals itself to you. And I’ve just never been in the place where I was like, ‘Right now is the time I’m supposed to have a baby,'” the Longevity Book author told Chelsea Handler. “But I do want my own family eventually, however that comes to me, whether it’s through adoption or [another method].”

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Surrounded

Diaz emphasized her decision to never say never in an April 2014 U.K. Telegraph interview. “If I wanted kids, at any point in life, I would have them,” she told the outlet. “But I’m certain that if at any point I wanted a child, that child would find its way into my life, whether through adoption, or through being in a relationship with somebody who has a child. I can’t see the future, but one thing I do know is that I’m not childless. I have a ton of children in my life. I can have a kid any second, if I want. All my friends would be like, ‘Sure, come and get them.'” She continued, “I also, by the way, have a lot of girlfriends who don’t have children. It’s not like I’m the spinster who didn’t have a child. I just didn’t do that in life, and I’m OK with that. I know the choices I made. I know why I made them. I’m very much a person who lives in the moment. When you come from where I do, there are so many ways my life could have gone.”

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Rough Road

"It’s so much more work to have children," the Body Book autor told Esquire in July 2014. "To have lives besides your own that you are responsible for — I didn’t take that on. That did make things easier for me. A baby — that’s all day, every day for 18 years. … Not having a baby might really make things easier, but that doesn’t make it an easy decision. I like protecting people, but I was never drawn to being a mother. I have it much easier than any of them. That’s just what it is. Doesn’t mean life isn’t sometimes hard. I’m just what I am. I work on what I am. Right now, I think, things are good for me. I’ve done a lot. And I don’t care anymore.”

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No Expectations

She explained to Marie Claire three months later: “I’m not looking for a husband or marriage or not not looking for that stuff. I’m living, not thinking what I should or shouldn’t be doing with my life. … We live in a society where everyone has kids, so they want other people to have kids. There is this culture that says celebrities are supposed to be just like us, so people think, ‘I have children, why doesn’t she?’ But I’m not going to do something because it’s expected. If a family happens, then it happens. If children come to me, then I would do that, but I’m not someone who feels like she has to do something because it’s expected.”

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May 2022

Diaz made a rare appearance on the Kelly Clarson show and spoke about the patience that goes with being mom to a toddler.

“I feel like as a parent it’s just your job to be like ‘Okay, so what are you feeling here?" the Charlie's Angels star explained. “There’s something there. … Kids are always trying to express a feeling, they’re not actively trying to be bad.”

The California native added: "I feel like as a parent my job is to help her find the words to her emotions, her experience, what she's going through, and be able to help her identify that, and then move through it."

The actress said she felt lucky to have started her motherhood journey after 40. “I think because I am an older parent and I really worked hard to get a child, I’m very fortunate to have been able to take the time to do it and be there with her,” she reasoned.