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Cameron Diaz on women not wanting children
Last updated at 15:59pm on 10.06.09
Children: Cameron Diaz is not ruling out having kids of her own
Women fear being shunned if they say they do not want children, Cameron Diaz has said.
The 36-year-old Hollywood actress said there were already enough people living on the planet.
But she also said she was not ruling out having children herself.
Diaz told Cosmopolitan magazine: "I think women are afraid to say that they don't want children because they're going to get shunned.
"But I think that's changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don't have kids than those that do.
"And honestly? We don't need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet."
On whether she wants children of her own, Diaz said: "I never say never. 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 'octomum'."
Diaz also praised Channel 4's The Sex Education Show, which was found last month by regulator Ofcom not to have breached broadcasting rules.
The pre-watershed programme is primarily aimed at young people, covering topics such as pornography, erectile dysfunction and contraception.
Diaz said: "I was in England recently and I caught this programme... The whole lot was on TV. It was amazing. And I was, like, that's what we need to do.
"We need to inform kids that it's not real for everyone to look a certain way...
"Boys expect girls to look like what they see, and vice versa. We're so inundated with images of what we should look like."
She continued: "I think there should be a disclaimer the same way there is on a pack of smokes - these people do not really look this way."
Speaking about potential boyfriends, she added: "What's changed from 10 years ago is that now I want a man who knows who he is.
"Someone who understands himself, has already dealt with his issues and who can say: 'I see where I've been foolish before and I'm not going to be like that again'."
The full interview appears in the July issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, on sale tomorrow.
Reader views (2)
What utter rubbish. Judging by the burgeoning number of childless 30 somethings I know (both men and women), the spectre of being a social pariah because of a failure to spawn does not seem to be looming especially large. It's just a lifestyle choice for most people, nothing more nothing less.
- Hb, rochford, essex
Not shunned, just dropped. Once they recognise you won't (can't) reflect their need for a self simulacrum. Not all mothers. Not the happy ones. Count them.
The gay community have long understood, and learned how to remain true through and underneath 'one way - our way' thinking. ChildFree websites might be our embryo for a more active subculture. It can only get better.
Courageous to go public. You are not alone.
Good luck!
- Lonesome Trail, Reading
