48-Year-Old Cameron Diaz Talks Becoming A Wife & Mother Later In Life + The Benefits

American actress, Cameron Diaz‘s life has changed dramatically in 2020! In January, the actress shocked fans when she announced that she’d welcomed her first child, Raddix.

In the latest episode of Naomi Campbell’s YouTube series No Filter with Naomi Campbell, the 48-year-old Charlie’s Angels star opened up about life as a parent out of the spotlight. She also got candid about becoming a wife and mother in her 40s and entering into a more private life.

Diaz, who is married to rocker Benji Madden, and who welcomed daughter in December says she is loving life, and that she’s hit her “sweet spot” — even after all that she has accomplished throughout her lengthy career.

“Even with all the amazing experiences I’ve had in traveling, accomplishments of working hard, putting things into the world that I’m proud of…I know this is the most gratifying moment in life to be in this place…when you’re my age and when you decide to [have a baby] it’s a real choice, something that you really have to work hard for it,”

she explained. She continues:

”I feel like a lot of people do it the other way around. They do it first, they have a family, they get married, they have a family in their youth. I’m kind of doing it in the second half of my life, which is, the only pressure I have on me now is that I have to live to be 107.”

Diaz noted that there are also benefits to getting married later in life.

“Marriage is also another thing ‘cause when you’re young, you become one another, you know, you melt into one another, but when you’re older and you start a marriage, you’re really aware of what it takes to become partners with one another because you’ve been individuals for so long,”

she explained.

The Hollywood star and Benji tied the knot in 2015 and lead a quiet life.

During an Instagram Live with Who What Wear CEO Katherine Power in April, Diaz said that being a mom is “the best, best, best part” of her life. She said:

“I love being a mother. I’m so grateful and so happy and it’s the best thing ever and I’m so lucky to do it with Benj and we’re having the best time. I’m thrilled. I can’t believe it.”

She also shared details about her family’s time in quarantine, joking about how her day-to-day hasn’t changed much since the stay-at-home orders were put into place.

“I’ve kinda been living a quarantine life anyhow because I have a three-month-old, three-and-a-half month. So my life has been completely quiet and still for the last few months,”

Diaz said.

“But I was able to have my friends over all the time. And now I just don’t see anybody. But it’s nice, and I love a bubble and being in the womb of my home with my husband and cooking.”

During another Instagram Live chat just days later, Diaz further explained how she and Madden work to co-parent.

“Benji wants to go to bed late, and I like to go to bed early. That works so well for us as parents. I can go to bed a few hours early and he does those later feeds with her,” she said. “[Then] I can wake up early and be with her in the morning and he can sleep.”

Diaz’s praise of Madden was thoroughly reciprocated. In fact, just over one month after announcing Raddix’s arrival, he took to Instagram to celebrate both his girls.

“My Wife and Daughter fill me up with so much gratitude,” he wrote on Instagram. “Everyday, I feel so lucky. Just wanted to say it out loud!!!”

One month later, he turned his attention to his baby girl, gushing that “being a Girl Dad is the best thing ever.”

Just days after that, Madden credited his brother, Joel Madden, with showing him “how to be a loving, present husband and a patient and kind father,” adding that their combined children are “the truest gifts.”