Cameron Diaz baffles the world with her broom. Puzzled? Well, the hollywood starlet, in spite of doing quite well in her film career likes to live a modest life. It's heard that the actress, till date, cleans her room herself, and that she doesn't have any maid helping her with domestic work. Can you take that?What's more intriguing, is the actress feels that self indulgence in homely affair has made her life change to a great extent. "It's so crazy but I just find that cleaning out my house changes my life," The Daily Express quoted her, as saying. She explains: "You leave the house with all the clutter around, and all the time you think about it, even if you are at work. But then you come back, clean it out and all of a sudden you're free from this burden that's been sitting in the back of your consciousness."Cameron got into modelling right at the age of 16, and since then there has been no looking back, both in her film and modelling career.

My Sister’s Keeper gives Cameron Diaz a provocative role as a mother struggling to save her daughter from Leukemia. She is not always portrayed in a sympathetic light, particularly when saving one child puts another at risk. Dealing with such juicy themes fueled Diaz’s performance.

Diaz Plays Mom to My Sister's Keeper
“I think this film succeeded, period, on what it set out to do, which is to make people feel,” she said. “It’s successful in doing that. When I first read the script, I wasn’t worried about how to play somebody who other people might think is so unsympathetic. People might think, ‘How does this woman justify doing this to this other child?’ The whole moral questioning about this really goes out the door. You think you’re going to really feel like she’s wrong, but you find, at the end, that you really cannot judge her. When I went to play her and understand her, I found that I can’t judge this woman. I don’t know what it’s like to have a child who’s dying. I don’t know what it feels like. All I know is that every parent that I’ve spoken to says the same thing. You do whatever it takes to save your child, period, whether it hurts another child of your own to do so. That is what you do. You jump off a cliff, you step in front of a train, you do whatever you can to keep that child alive. That, at the end of it all, made it so much easier for me to just know that there’s no judgment in this movie, as far as I was concerned.”

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From the window of the sunlit suite where Cameron Diaz sits, there is a beautiful view of the Santa Monica beach with blue sky and fluffy white clouds above. The 36-year-old star is dressed to match — a lightweight white sweater with thin blue horizontal stripes, white slacks.

She seems relaxed and happy.

“That’s how I feel inside,” she smiles. “I’m glad that it shows. I like to put nice things out in the world.”

Last year at this time was different. The unexpected death of her father, Emilio, at 58 from pneumonia, had shaken the actress, who was in the middle of shooting “My Sister’s Keeper.” The film, which opened last week, deals with death, too.

Diaz plays Sara, whose oldest daughter, Kate (“Medium’s” Sofia Vassilieva), has with cancer. She and her husband (Jason Patric) have conceived a second daughter, Anna (Abigail Breslin), a bone marrow match for Kate. When asked to donate a kidney to save Kate, 11-year-old Anna balks.

Diaz left the set for about two weeks in April after her father died. (Production shut down for a while and then they shot around her.)

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Cameron Diaz would do anything for her loved ones.The actress found it easy to empathise with her 'My Sister's Keeper' character Sara Fitzgerald, whose daughter has terminal cancer, even though she isn't a mother herself.
She said: "I think we all related to the fact that there isn't anything that you wouldn't give someone that you love that deeply. You do whatever it takes to keep that person alive. I think that that's something that spoke to most of us, for this film, and what I think is so effective in the film."
Cameron - whose father Emilio Diaz died after developing pneumonia while she was working on the film - also praised her 13-year-old co-star Abigail Breslin for her brave performance.
Abigail plays Sara's other daughter Anna, who was a designer baby born to help keep Kate alive. However, Anna decides she wants the right to make her own medical decisions.
Cameron said: "What was amazing about working with Abigail was that I realised you see her and you're like, 'Oh, she's just a little girl,' but she's got so much power within her. I went up to her mother and said, 'Your daughter is a warrior.'
"She can take all these things that are happening around her, that are these very adult, complicated, complex situations and ideas, and she's able to somehow put something behind it with more strength than you see in most people. I was amazed by how strong she is. She's just a powerhouse."

When a party girl goes serious, it's time to cry.

Take, for example, Cameron Diaz, the blond, blue-eyed, A-list movie star who has more often specialized in raucous comedies ("There's Something About Mary," "What Happens in Vegas") and will customarily go to any length to get a laugh (the classic hair gel routine in "Mary.")

It was only a few years ago, for a Virginian-Pilot interview, that she told us, in her joyous la-di-la style: "What are my career plans? I haven't the slightest idea. I don't make plans. What would I like to achieve? I can't think. Maybe learn to milk a cow. Hey, that's good. I'd like to milk a cow! I'm entitled to ideas like this. I'm blond."The still-single, self-described tomboy has added to her gadabout image with a history of hot dates - (Justin Timberlake, Matt Dillon, Jared Leto).That was then. Starting this weekend, Diaz will surprise her fans by playing a strong and determined mother who will go to any length to save her terminally ill daughter. Based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult, "My Sister's Keeper" is a drama that challenges perceptions of family love and loyalty and dares to go where other movies feared to tread - directly into competition with the expected action blockbuster "Transformers."

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Opening in theatres this weekend is the film My Sister's Keeper; Nick Cassavetes' adaptation of Jodi Piccoult's heartbreaking novel. The story is about the legal battle between a minor child, Anna Fitzegerald (Abigail Breslin), and her parents (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric). Anna is fighting for her right to not donate a kidney to her cancer-stricken sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva); after the girl was conceived to be a genetic match for such donations. This is a different role for Diaz, her first playing a mother, and starring in a drama (she had a supporting roles in Any Given Sunday and The Gangs of New York). Let's look back to a few prior films that are currently available on DVD for fans and those who will be introduced to Diaz's talent this weekend.
The Mask: Diaz played Tina Carlyle, Jim Carrey's love interest in this fantastical comedy. She was relegated to side kick and reactionary for most of the comedy vignettes, but she does take center stage during her musical numbers. This is a goofball comedy that appeals to adults and children, although there is some sexual innuendo that may be deemed quite inappropriate for elementary schoolers. This 1994 film came out before DVD technology was available, and the eventual release was fairly light on special features. Here is the link to find this disk on Amazon.
Grade: B
There's Something About Mary: In this 1998 Farrely Brothers' comedy, everyone fell in love with Diaz and her title character, Mary. It's fun to watch as all the men fall in love and scheme for her heart, as she just tries to make friends and live her life. While the humor was quite topical of the late nineties, the outrageous high concept vignettes still may hold up with new audiences. The original DVD release is light on bonus materials, but the Collector's Edition re-release includes a number of hysterical and informative featurettes. Here is the link to find this disk on Amazon.

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Cameron Diaz finally received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame June 22, 2009.  Cameron looked absolutely summer ready in an embroidered white dress by Oscar de la Renta along with a red belt, red pumps, and red lips.

Cameron Diaz has long been the fashion icon by combining trendy with classy.  Pair that with her new star on the Walk of Fame and you have one beautiful and talented movie star.  Look for Diaz in the upcoming movie My Sister's Keeper which opens in theaters this Friday.

The 'My Sister's Keeper' star is not a fan of plastic surgery, but often contemplates getting buttock implants to make her derriere rounder.

She said: "I'd love a bigger butt, more meat on my bones. I'd love to be more voluptuous. It's just not my body type."

But for now the 36-year-old actress – who is reportedly dating Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine – is far more interested in giving the world a makeover.

She explained: "The planet needs a publicist. It's the planet, you know what I mean? She should be a star. How do we make this little planet of ours a big star? I want everybody to know who she is."

When it comes to her own fame, Cameron is finally getting used to being noticed on the street.

She added to America’s Marie Claire magazine: "I just have a lot of friends. That's how I think of it. It's nice to see people smile. Every once in a while, you'll have those moments when people give you the stink eye and you're like, 'What the f**k is your problem? What, am I horrific-looking?'

"But really what they're thinking is, 'Am I seeing who I think I'm seeing?' It's just a shock. I don't have any problem with being famous. I've completely made peace with being recognisable and people wanting to peek into my life in some way."

"It will be cool to be under people's feet," Cameron Diaz joked today about her star. "It really is the place where people can understand exactly that actors are not really stars - they exist on the ground just like everybody else."

The native Californian first appeared on the Hollywood screen in a debut role in The Mask with Jim Carrey. Her next movie, My Sister's Keeper, will premiere this week.

The star is the 2386th on the famous Hollywood Walk of Fame and can be found in front of the Egyptian Theater.

In the past, film star Cameron Diaz has hinted that she doesn't want to have children.
Ever.
But according to the July issue of UK Cosmopolitan, all bets may now be off.

"I never say never," Diaz, 36, tells the magazine. "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 fricking knows!"

The revised outlook on motherhood isn’t the only change taking place in Diaz’s life. The actress, who stars in My Sister's Keeper, which opens next Friday, admits that she has changed considerably over the last twelve months.

"The past year has been totally transformative. I'm a completely different person. 100 percent."

There was, after all, a time when their adoring fans could never picture Angelina Jolie or Madonna to be doting parents of scores of children. Perhaps Cameron Diaz will be the latest to join the list of celebrity moms who have undergone a similar transformation.
But don't hold your breath.