14 DAY TRIAL // Say what you will about Cameron Diaz as an actress but there’s no denying that, as a celebrity, she’s one of the most (apparently) honest, always refusing to beat about the bush or sugar-coat the things she has to say. She does the same when she speaks of herself, even if it’s a topic most women would choose to keep quiet about.
Like adult acne.
Diaz has a new book coming out, called “The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body,” which she aims as a manual of sorts for women looking for the right path to health, happiness, and body acceptance.
Because she must first do what she preaches, in one of the excerpts released to the press ahead of the official release, Cameron talks openly about her skin problems and how hard it was for her to find a solution for them.
Cameron, as fans probably know, has always struggled with acne.
“I mean, I had terrible, terrible, skin. It was embarrassing, and I did everything I could think of to make it go away. I tried to cover it with makeup. I tried to get rid of it with medication: oral, topical, even the harshest prescriptions. Nothing helped for very long,” she writes in the book, as cited by Radar Online.
“It was really challenging to cover them up for the cameras. It was awkward and embarrassing and frustrating, and I always felt really bad about myself,” Diaz continues.
As it turns out, the problem wasn’t with her skin but rather with the stuff she put in her body. Though always in incredible shape, up until her mid-thirties, Diaz would always brag of eating a cheeseburger with fries a day, and of not really caring about the kind of stuff she ate.
Once she cut all that out, she started seeing the first results in her skin: her acne is far from gone, but it’s no longer such a huge problem as it was once. Clearly, her advice to women is to take better care of their bodies, if they want it to translate into flawless skin.
“Looking back, I realize that I hadn’t needed those prescription drugs, those vials of potions and creams. I hadn’t needed to be angry at my skin or feel bad about myself. I had just needed to LISTEN TO MY BODY. Acne was my body’s alarm system, it was its way of telling me [to stop eating fast food],” Diaz writes.