I remember when Cameron Diaz first hit the Hollywood scene. When she appeared in The Mask, I thought she was breathtakingly beautiful. Of course she’s since had a little work done like most actresses. These photos also aren’t the most flattering ones since they were taken during her stint as Miss Hannigan in the Annie remake. I’m not sure what spin Cameron will put on Hannigan, but it’s sure to be an interesting one. Those poor orphans won’t know what hit ’em.

Cameron’s got other stuff to shill right now besides a remake that didn’t need to happen. Her first book came out on New Year’s Eve! The book is a Goop-inspired lifestyle guide called The Body Book: The Law of Hunger, the Science of Strength, and Other Ways to Love Your Amazing Body. As CB noted, this book is focused upon the science of health instead of thinness, so it’s not really very Gooplike after all. Cameron’s released a few excerpts that talk about her struggle with adult acne. You know Goop would never admit to having pimples even though the evidence speaks otherwise. Bring it on, Cami:

Cameron Diaz’s face has graced movie screens, magazine covers, and more throughout her years as an actress and model. But her gorgeous looks haven’t always been 100 percent natural. In her new health guide, The Body Book, Diaz admits to struggling with acne as a teen and well into her adult years, even as she got her first gigs in Hollywood.

“I mean, I had terrible, terrible, skin,” she reveals. “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.”

“It was really challenging to cover them up for the cameras,” she writes. “It was awkward and embarrassing and frustrating, and I always felt really bad about myself.”

But her struggles persisted, she says, until she focused more on what she was putting into her body than how it looked on the outside.

Diaz once bragged, “I eat a cheeseburger with french fries every day.” But as she started to skip fast food and cook for herself at home approaching age 30, the actress-turned-author explains, “a funny thing happened … my skin began to clear up! My acne wasn’t totally gone, but it was significantly better.”

“Looking back, I realize that I hadn’t needed those prescription drugs, those vials of potions and creams,” Diaz, now 41, writes. “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 mew ay of telling me [to stop eating fast food].”

[From Radar Online]

If this revelation connecting Cameron’s past food addiction and her acne issues is any indication of her book as a whole, I’d say she’s got a best seller on her hands. I like that she’s talking about acne without being paid for as an ambassador for Proactiv or whatever the latest drug is called. Sure Cam made some money for this book, but she didn’t have to talk at all about her acne struggles. Good on her.

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