Cameron Diaz on Why It's Okay to Cheat
Diaz talks cheating on her diet and other indulgences.
— -- Newlywed Cameron Diaz is talking about cheating -- on her diet, that is.
"Well being is an equation. Remember, you don't have to have the whole cake, you can have a piece," Diaz, who recently wed rocker Benji Madden, told Cosmopolitan UK's "Love Your Body" issue. "Don't deprive yourself. Have fun. Just be self-aware. If your equation is 80 percent good, 20 percent bad most of the time, then a little movement toward the centre isn't going to affect you much."
When it comes to exercise, though, Diaz is 100 percent committed.
"You have to just do it," she told the April issue. "Once you commit and really put in the effort, your body goes, 'Oh, it's not OK to be without this.' People say, 'My body rejects exercise.' No, it doesn't. Your mind rejects exercise."
Another healthy activity Diaz thinks folks should indulge in: sex.
She told Cosmo it's "something healthy that we need to be doing for many different reasons."
But there's one thing she thinks everyone should avoid.
"I think social media is a crazy-a** experiment on society," Diaz, who quit social media in September 2014, said. "The way people use it to get validation from a bunch of strangers is dangerous. What's the point?"
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