Parting ways. Celebrities such as Cameron Diaz and Rick Moranis rose to stardom in Hollywood — only to leave their acting careers in the past.Diaz got her start with a role alongside Jim Carrey in the 1994 film The Mask.
The actress continued to find success with movies including My Best Friend’s Wedding, There’s Something About Mary, Vanilla Sky, Charlie’s Angels and many more.After exchanging vows with Benji Madden in 2015, the Golden Globe nominee confirmed her decision to step away from acting.
She welcomed daughter Raddix in 2019 via surrogate.In August 2020, the California native reflected on her decision to hit pause on her career. “I really looked at my life and I saw what I had been — when you’re making a movie, it’s the perfect excuse, they own you — and I realized I handed off parts of my life to all these other people,” she explained during an episode of the “In Goop Health: The Sessions” video series. “They took it.
I basically had to take it back and take responsibility for my life.”Diaz later noted that her priorities shifted since she stopped acting.“It’s just a different time in my life now,” she told Yahoo Finance in March 2021. “Now I’m here and this is the most fulfilling thing that I’ve ever done in my life. [To] have a family and be married and have our little nucleus of a family.
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