Everything Cameron Diaz Has Said About Raising Her, Benji Madden's Children

Cameron Diaz has loved gushing about her three kids with Benji Madden.

The Holiday star and the Good Charlotte cofounder first welcomed daughter Raddix in January 2020, followed by son Cardinal in March 2024. Diaz and Madden later surprised fans in April 2026 with the news that they had welcomed baby No. 3, a son named Nautas.

Madden and Diaz tied the knot in 2015 in their Beverly Hills home and spent years trying to start a family.

Before becoming a mom, Diaz told InStyle that she was "not opposed" to having kids.

"Having children changes your life drastically, and I really love my life. Children aren't the only things that bring you gratification and happiness, and it's easier to give life than to give love," the Bad Teacher star explained in 2010. "So I don't know. That kind of change would have to be either very well thought out, or a total mistake - a real oops!"

Keep scrolling to see what Diaz has said about raising her children:

Welcome to the World

"We are so happy, blessed and grateful to begin this new decade by announcing the birth of our daughter, Raddix Madden," the couple wrote in their January 2020 Instagram statement. "She has completely captured our hearts and completed our family. While we are overjoyed to share this news, we also feel a strong instinct to protect our little one's privacy. So we won't be posting pictures or sharing any more details, other than the fact that she is really really cute!! Some would even say RAD."

Perfect Pair

In April 2020, Diaz told Gucci Westman in an Instagram Live video that she goes to bed "early" while her husband stays up "late," explaining, "That works so well for us as parents. I can go to bed a few hours earlier and he does those later feeds. Then I can go to bed and I wake up early and am with [our daughter, Raddix], early in the morning so he can sleep."

Praise Report

"He's so good. He's such an amazing father," she said of Benji during another Instagram Live video in April 2020. "I'm so lucky he's my baby's daddy. Like, he's so incredible."

Quarantine Cutie

The best part of [quarantine] and having to stay within our little bubble within this [coronavirus pandemic] is that her dad gets to be home," the Body Book author gushed to Seth Meyers in July 2020. "We're just having a lot of gratitude for that."

Heaven at Home

Diaz told Jimmy Fallon that same month that living with Raddix has been "heaven." She explained, "Literally every single day, there's just leaps and bounds ... and she's not the same baby that she was yesterday. Where was yesterday? Yesterday is literally gone, and today is a new day, and tomorrow will be a new day that she's a completely different baby."

Musical Man

"Since we have a little one, we are really jamming out to some dope Sesame Street jams," the Charlie's Angels star told Rolling Stone in July 2020. "We've got ‘Baby Shark' in the mix, and of course, Benj has written at least a dozen songs for [Raddix]."

All Natural

"I think there's something in our DNA that gets triggered - just clicks on - when you become a parent," Diaz said during a September 2020 Drew Barrymore Show appearance. "You have to make sure that they survive. They go on."

Planning Ahead

Diaz joked that she will have "to live to be, like, 107" after having a baby in the "second half" of her life. She explained to Naomi Campbell in an October 2020 interview: "A lot of people do it the other way around. They get married [and] have a family in their youth. Having a family when you're young ... it's like anything when you're young: You do it. But when you're my age and you decide to do it, it's a real choice. You really have to work hard for it."

Happy and Hungry

"She never had a puree," Diaz said of cooking for Raddix during a November 2020 Rachael Ray Show appearance. "She never got anything pureed. … She's had garlic from day one. She eats bone marrow and liver, and she loves it. I put herbs in everything, thyme and dill, sage, everything. She just loves all of it."

Closed Chapter

"Being a wife and a mother has been the most … fulfilling part of my life so far," the retired actress said during a February 2021 appearance on SiriusXM's Quarantined With Bruce. "I waited for this … so I didn't have any distractions. Like, I can't imagine [working right now]. As a mother with my child, to have to be on a movie set that takes 14 hours, 16 hours, of my time away from her - I just couldn't."

Some Bad Days

Diaz called motherhood "challenging" during a candid conversation with Kelly Clarkson in May 2022. "If you do blow up, just ... say, 'Oh, my God. Mommy lost her s–t, and I didn't mean to say that to you if I hurt your feelings or if I upset you. I just want you to know Mommy's human, too,'" the actress said on The Kelly Clarkson Show, noting that she tries to "repair" the situation if she gets frustrated.

"Kids are always just trying to express [themselves]," she continued. "They're not actively trying to be bad. My job is to just help her find the words to her emotions, her experience, what she's going through, and be able to help her identify that and then move through it."

Age Is Beauty

"The whole concept of aging has just changed completely, even in the last 10 years," Diaz said on the "Goop" podcast in May 2022. "It's totally opened up. I'm excited. I've got 50 or 60 years to go - I want to live to be 110, since I've got a young child."

She continued, "I think you have this amazing moment in your 40s where you appreciate who your parents are, and I want to have that moment with her - be there with her in her 40s. ... I'm lucky to be my age, lucky to have those girlfriends, lucky to have my daughter, lucky to have all the support I do raising her."

Kids Are Life-Changing

"You're a different person after you have children, after marriage, after building a life," Diaz told E! News in January 2025. "Everything changes, your whole perspective, your whole world, your understanding of it. For me, I never made a movie before with a family. So, all of the boxes change that need to be checked off. That's the most important, and then everything else has to line up to support that."

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This story was originally published May 4, 2026 at 8:10 AM.