Beauty Icon - Cameron Diaz

Cameron Diaz,celebrity style,celebrity hair Beauty Icon - Cameron Diaz

By Yanar Alkayat

She\'s the tomboy tough-kid who went from runway model to Hollywood super star. Her magnetic aura has attracted the likes of dishy JT as well as Jennifer Aniston\'s British model ex-boyfriend, Paul Sculfor.

 

With a carefree zest for life, her beauty talk is frank, open and proud. So who better to be handbag.com\'s beauty icon of the month?

Indefinable...

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Born to Colombian father and Anglo-German mother, her striking looks are almost indefinable - neither convincingly Hispanic nor obviously European. But she\'s got the look and she\'s not complaining.

"My Latin roots are very strong. All my life, because I\'m blonde and blue-eyed, people who are not Hispanic can\'t believe I am and people who are Hispanic always think I\'m not, because I don\'t look like them."

Tomboy at heart

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Style-spot Cameron on the red carpet, and more often than not her carefree, Cali-beach attitude is her signature add-on. Whether it\'s sun-kissed tresses, casual side-fringe or pared-down makeup, her tomboy spirit always shines through.

"I grew up with a lot of boys and I\'m a tomboy at heart. I was the plain one growing up. I had no style and was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and feathered hair." We think you look a lot hotter now...

There\'s something about Cameron...

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The Something About Mary star knows she\'s been blessed with a great bod and holds no hang-ups about it. Nudity? Pah! Easy-peasy!

"Nudity has nothing to do with other people. It\'s just what I\'m comfortable with. I can\'t say this enough; I\'m totally comfortable with my body. I don\'t think it\'s a bad thing I think I have a nice body, I\'m happy with it." Good for you Cammy...

 

Blessed with great stats, she\'s a self-confessed foodie, which is a refreshing antidote to fad-diet Hollywoodites.  "I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. French fries? I love them. Some people are chocolate and sweets people. I love French fries. That and caviar." Cool!

Lust for life

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Her raucous laugh, love for life and passion for sex (yep, you heard right, she thinks everyone should have sex at least once a day to stay happy), prove the Diaz knows a thing or two about beauty and happiness. "Beauty is a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency." Aah...

Beauty secrets

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She\'s rumoured to wash her face only with Evian mineral water, but what other secrets to health and beauty does she harbour? "I don\'t know if these are beauty secrets, but to feel my best I just exercise regularly, laugh and play often, and make love every moment I can." So that\'s what we should be doing!

Model behaviour

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After falling into acting as something extra to modelling, the path has taken her to great things but the Shrek star remains modest, refusing to let her (enviable) looks be held against her. "I\'m a pretty girl, who\'s a model, who doesn\'t suck as an actress." She goes on..."There shouldn\'t be prejudice against someone who\'s had success in films and looks a little better than average. It\'s all in my genes, so don\'t hold it against me." Ok Cameron, we won\'t.

Action girl

Cameron Diaz,celebrity style,celebrity hair Cameron Diaz Her beach-life upbringing explains her water-babe meets adventure-girl persona. Four famous nose-breaks later however and she had to give in to the surgeon\'s knife - but not without strict instructions to leave her original bump unchanged. "I\'ve had the bump since I was 11-years-old. I don\'t want it changed. Leave my nose alone."  

Beauty Icon

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Proud of her assets, she urges women to use their voice and vote, ("women have so much to lose. We have a voice now and we\'re not using it"). And then to stop worrying because we should love what we have, "what we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don\'t have, is just love what we do have." Wise words from arguably, one of the happiest beauty icons in Hollywood...

 

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