Cameron Diaz Is Far More than the Girl Next Door

In back to back magazine editorials today, we see Cameron Diaz in a Smart Sensuality woman full court press. Here at Anne of Carversville, Diaz is the ‘girl next door’, the Cultural Creative woman devoted to environmental concerns.

In her recent MTX series, Trippin’, the modern-day Doris Day took fans camping with rapper DMX in Yellowstone or flying off to Nepal with Eva Mendes. Driving into the desert for her Vogue 2009 photo shoot, Cameron’s hybrid is in high gear. She likes driving fast.

A New York Times critic praised Cameron for combining “school and recess” in the series: “She has learned to speak authoritatively about siltation and dynamite fishing and overpopulation, all in her surfer-girl vernacular.” She wasn’t using the show to make herself more of a star; she was using her celebrity to lure young people to the cause of conservation.

Cameron was excited to talk about her new movie My Sister’s Keeper, in this June 2009 Vogue interview with Robert Sullivan. It’s an emotionally-draining, sensitive, woman’s kind of movie. And Cameron Diaz plays a mother for the first time.

Reading along, it’s the next quote that really caught my eye, especially when I saw the photos of Cameron Diaz posted in the new V-magazine. They are housed over on Sexy Futures, not being suitable for Anne of Carversvile.

“People who put labels on themselves limit themselves,” she says. “If you are a woman who’s been labeled as a sex symbol, for instance—I mean, I am not saying that’s the label people would apply to me. But if you see yourself that way, inevitably you get to a point when you are no longer a sex symbol. And if you can’t move past that, you’re putting a limit on yourself; you’re arresting your development. And that’s where I think a lot of women get in trouble.

Cameron Diaz Vogue July 2009This is the mantra of a Smart Sensuality woman. Keep on evolving. We exist to live, to give, to flourish in a productive, life-enhancing space.

“It’s a journey,” Diaz say, speaking of her life. “It’s a total journey.” After the laughter subsides, she goes on. “But it’s also true. I mean, I’m not 25 years old anymore, nor do I want to be. I wouldn’t even want to go back to being 30. You know what I mean? That journey—I’ve done it already. I don’t want to do it again. It’s a lot of work to get through it, and I am excited about moving forward. I think that people get caught up in getting back to some place that they already passed. Or to a place where you cannot stay.”

Like so many women exploring their identity as part of the New Eroticism sexuality trend, Cameron Diaz blows the door off my image of her in this V-Magazine. Inside every ‘good girl’ there is a ‘bad girl’ longing to be free, if only for a moment, a night, perhaps only in a dream.’Good girls’ have ‘naughty’ fantasies, and they are all part of an older woman in full bloom.

Link here for a very different look at Cameron Diaz. You may not recognize this Smart Sensuality woman. Diaz is definitely not a daisy. Anne