Last week, Cameron Diaz and her husband Benji Madden revealed on social media that they had welcomed their second child together, a son named Cardinal. The couple is notorious for not sharing any pictures of their children on social media, so we will likely never get to see pictures of the little one. Cardinal joins big sister Raddix, who was born in 2019. Besides keeping her kids under wraps, Cameron is famously an older mom, having both of her kids when she was over the age of 45. And with Cardinal’s birth announcement, people have some big feelings about Cameron’s age and the fact that she has young kids.
The baby announcement came as a total surprise.
“We are blessed and excited to announce the birth of our Son, Cardinal Madden. He is awesome and We are all so happy he is here! For the kids safety and privacy we won’t be posting any pictures — but he’s a really cute ☺️ We are feeling so blessed and grateful,” the pair wrote on Instagram.
Some people seem to think Cameron is incapable of being a mom because she’s over 50.
Many of the comments on their announcement post are positive, but as the news spread, people seemed to take issue with Cameron having her second kid after 50.
“They’ve been together for so long, why wait until your 50’s to have kids?” one person asked.
Someone else added: “Lovely for them. But I feel sorry for the person who will have to live majority of their adult life without parents.”
“Who the heck wants to become a parent at 51 yrs old?” another person commented.
Some people are on Cameron’s side, though.
Many people came to Cameron’s defense in the comments section, pointing out the hypocrisy of judging her parenting ability based on her age.
“Male actors in their 80s having babies with younger women!” one commenter pointed out. “But surrogacy for a female actress in her 50s is a problem? Get a life, do something good for someone else, and stop judging.”
“Dear Lord, yall act like she’s 51, wheelchair bound and in a nursing home!” someone else added. “She’s a very active woman and clearly is able to raise their child.”
Another comment read: “Stop judging families having kids at a certain age. You don’t know their struggles or preference.”
Cameron became a mom when the timing felt right for her.
Cameron addressed being an older mom during an interview with Gwyneth Paltrow a few years ago. She initially didn’t think that getting married and having children was going to happen for her, but then realized that thought came from “fear.” At the time, she said that as she’s gotten older and grown as a person, she has been able to go “into the consciousness of parenting” from a different place than she would have when she was younger.
She’s loving being a mom at this point in her life.
“I think it’s part of being an older mother, you know. I mean like being a mother at the age that I am, I don’t think I could have been this parent at 25,” she said.
Now, she can really appreciate being the mother to a young child and helping to guide her kids through the world. “All mothers have this moment where you are watching your child, and they are doing something for the first time, and you like, ‘I remember doing that,'” she shared.
