So it seems that Cameron Diaz has been a bit of a trickster. After leading the world to believe she’d ‘shut up shop’ on motherhood, she announced on the weekend that she has now become a mum.
Well, that’s the essence of the sensational headlines about the news, which pretty much say: Cameron Diaz has become a mum at FORTY-SEVEN and we never saw this coming so this is a SURPRISE.
Of course, Diaz hasn’t actually misled anyone about anything. All she’s done is not become a mum before the age of 45, after which everyone just assumed ‘it wasn’t going to happen for her’.
Which is why now the world seems to be very surprised that she has ‘suddenly’ become a parent.
And, more to the point: at 47-years-old.
That’s almost 50, you guys, which is god damn geriatric. Diaz should be on the aged pension, spending her days in a Florida retirement village playing bingo. Not becoming a mum for the first time.
(Interestingly, her husband’s age hasn’t been in any of the headlines. But that’s a double-standard for another time.)
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People do judge men for having kids later in life. Jeff Goldblum and Mick Jagger were both recently subjected to a lot of snarky remarks in the media for becoming fathers in their 60's and 70's, respectively.
The only difference is women are judged "too old" once they're in their 40's, whereas men have a slightly wider window. I suspect the main two reasons for this are: 1. It's much harder for women to fall pregnant after age 40, whereas men can father children until much later in life; 2. It's still automatically assumed women bear the brunt of childcare (even rich, famous women like Diaz who can afford nannies) So being an "old" mother is considered worse than being an old father.
Personally, I think after the age of 45, both men and women should think long and hard over whether they really want to be in their mid-70's while their kids are at uni. Contrary to popular belief, you can actually be perfectly happy and fulfilled without being a parent.
My guess is that she had a surrogate or adopted which is easier to do in the US. Pregnancy in your late 40s is almost impossible to achieve. I feel for women who are having their first child 40 +. They really have no idea how hard it’s going to be and they aren’t young women anymore.