who oh WHY do i EVER read anything other than the guardian...everytime i click in its a goldmine...
Here's a story about a famous actress, nearer to 40 than Hollywood tends to like its actresses to be, and unmarried. She is also "linked" to lots of famous men, going through them at the rate some of us go through gossip magazines. Poor Jen, right? Nope – "lucky Cameron".
Last week a tabloid claimed Cameron Diaz is seeing Keanu Reeves after having last month "dated" Jason Lewis, the actor who played Smith on Sex and the City, and going on "a string of dates" with Jude Law and Leonardo DiCaprio before that.
Whether any of that is true is irrelevant. Diaz gets portrayed as an enviable lady with a phenomenal sex life. Yet Jennifer Aniston, who is of a similar age (40 to Diaz's 36) and has even dated many of the same men, prompts international media condescension. Why the unfair discrepancy?
Partly this is a question of unfortunate circumstance. No matter how many teeth-whitened smiles Aniston makes to the camera, she will always be the woman who was left by Brad Pitt for the sexiest woman on the planet. The tabloid world has set this image in lucrative stone.
Diaz may or may not have been left by her ex Justin Timberlake (depending on which magazine you read) but this never defined her, partly because neither party ever referred to it again.
Both women are beautiful but Aniston clearly works, like most would have to, quite hard at this, as a comparison between early Friends episodes and recent GQ shoots proves. Diaz always came across as a naturally gorgeous tomboy who just surfs to work off her chips. This adds to the impression that Diaz would be a lot of fun to hang out with, particularly as she was a slapstick girl from the start, gaily making fun of herself in The Mask and smoothing spunk in her hair in There's Something About Mary.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/aug/24/cameron-diaz-jennifer-aniston