Why Cameron Diaz is taking a break from Hollywood

THERE’S a good reason she’s stepped out of the spotlight in recent years.

Cameron Diaz has taken some time off recently. Photo: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for NBC

THERE’S a good reason Cameron Diaz has stepped out of the spotlight in recent years.

The 44-year-old actress hasn’t appeared in a feature film since 2014’s remake of Annie, and told a panel at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop event that it was a conscious decision.

“I just went, ‘I can’t really say who I am to myself.’ Which is a hard thing to face up to,” Diaz confessed, according to E! News. “I felt the need to make myself whole.”

She also gave a little insight into her marriage to Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden.

“Cameron, you got married later,” moderator Paltrow noted. “What was it that kept you from getting married until you were 40?”

“Forty-one,” Diaz corrected her friend.

“I think it’s a matter of I just hadn’t met my husband, you know? I had boyfriends before. And there’s a really, really distinct difference between husbands and boyfriends. And I have a husband who is just my partner in life and in everything. Talk about two very different people! We are so different from one another, but we share the same values — we’re totally two peas in a pod. We are both just weird enough for each other.”

The couple has been married since 2015. Picture: Splash

She added: “We women are objectified so much. Somehow my husband has just been able to kind of show me what it’s like not to have that be a part of a relationship, and being an equal.”

This story originally appeared in NY Post and is republished here with permission.