Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden are celebrating seven years since saying "I do!"
On Wednesday, the Good Charlotte musician, 42, marked the occasion by dedicating a sweet social media tribute to his actress wife.
"Today 7 years married ❤️ Always dreamed of having a family like this. Happy, peaceful, consistent, loyal and unconditional equally filled with passion and depth," he wrote on Instagram of Diaz, 49, alongside a photo of artwork. "Calling it a Honeymoon doesn't cover it. Real life. The only real challenge we have is making time go slower cause life goes by fast in the happy lane."
He added, "Always and forever knowing we are home @camerondiaz Happy Anniversary I love you!❤️❤️❤️"
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Madden tied the knot with the Bad Teacher star in 2015, and the couple later welcomed their first child — daughter Raddix — in December 2019. In July 2020, she said Raddix, 2, was "the best thing that ever happened" to the couple during an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
In September, Diaz appeared on an episode of the Anna Faris Is Unqualified podcast and discussed first meeting Madden through his identical twin brother Joel Madden and his wife, Nicole Richie.
"I met mine through my now sister-in-law and brother-in-law, I met them first and then they didn't set us up but we were in the same room because of them, and then we found each other," she explained.
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"I was like, 'How come I didn't see him before?'" Diaz continued, while her business partner and fellow guest on the podcast, Katherine Power, chimed in, "Which is funny because you saw his twin brother."
"They're not the same, they're so different," Diaz said. "Even though they're twins, they're very, very different obviously
One month prior, on the actress' birthday, the musician showered her with love on Instagram to honor the occasion.
"Happy Birthday to my Wife," he wrote alongside an image of artwork. "You are beautiful in all ways, we are so lucky to have you ❤️🙏 what you do who you are day in and day out to the ones you love always true blue — hard to put it all in a IG post but I love to have a reason to say it out loud I love you ❤️🙏🎉 @camerondiaz."
Diaz previously opened about marriage and family in April 2020 during an episode of makeup artist Gucci Westman's YouTube Series, "Makeup & Friends."
"I love being married," she said at the time. "The best thing that ever happened to me is finding my husband and our partnership and his friendship and all that."
Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden have kept the majority of their 7-year marriage private, but on their wedding anniversary, the couple took to Instagram to gush about the other and how deeply in love they remain. Madden shared a post in tribute to his wife and mother of his daughter Raddix Madden, whom they announced the birth of a year ago.
“Today 7 years married ❤️,” Madden wrote. “Always dreamed of having a family like this. Happy, peaceful, consistent, loyal and unconditional equally filled with passion and depth. Calling it a Honeymoon doesn’t cover it. Real life. The only real challenge we have is making time go slower cause life goes by fast in the happy lane, Always and forever knowing we are home @camerondiaz Happy Anniversary I love you!❤️❤️❤️”
Diaz commented on the post, “I ✨❤️✨YOU MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY. Happy, peaceful, consistent, loyal and unconditional. Passionate and deep = OUR LOVE LOVE YOU FOREVER AND ALWAYS ✨❤️✨”
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Cameron Diaz’s response to Madden’s tribute
InstagramDiaz spoke about motherhood in April 2020. “I love being a mother. It's the best, best, best part of my life,” she said, per Entertainment Tonight. “I'm so grateful and so happy and it's the best thing ever and I'm so lucky to do it with Benj and we're having the best time. I'm thrilled. I can't believe it.”
Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden In Los Angeles on April 14, 2018.
BG008/Bauer-Griffin//Getty ImagesShe raved about Madden as a dad and partner. “He's so good,” she said. “He's such an amazing father. I'm so lucky he's my baby's father. He's incredible. He puts her down and I go into the kitchen and I pour myself a nice glass of red wine. I start my cooking, I put on my show, whatever it is.”
In the couple's announcement of their daughter's birth, the two shared that they would be keeping her life private. “While we are overjoyed to share this news, we also feel a strong inclination to protect our little one's privacy,” they wrote. “So we won't be posting pictures or sharing any more details, other than the fact she is really, really cute!! Some would even say RAD :)”
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Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden are celebrating seven years in heaven.
The celebrity couple commemorated their seventh wedding anniversary Wednesday with sweet tributes to each other on Instagram.
"Always dreamed of having a family like this. Happy, peaceful, consistent, loyal and unconditional equally filled with passion and depth," Madden captioned a post featuring a colorful painting of a tiger. "Calling it a Honeymoon doesn’t cover it. Real life. The only real challenge we have is making time go slower cause life goes by fast in the happy lane, Always and forever knowing we are home."
Actress Diaz, 49, and Good Charlotte guitarist Madden, 42, tied the knot Jan. 5, 2015, and announced two days before their fifth anniversary they had welcomed their first child, a girl named Raddix.
"I (heart) YOU MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY," Diaz replied in the comments of Madden's post. "Happy, peaceful, consistent, loyal and unconditional. Passionate and deep = OUR LOVE"
She added: "LOVE YOU FOREVER AND ALWAYS"
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Reflecting on getting married later in life – Diaz was 42 when she and Madden tied the knot – the actress said at Gwyneth Paltrow's 2017 Goop health and wellness conference that she "just hadn't met my husband yet."
"I had boyfriends before. And there’s a really, really distinct difference between husbands and boyfriends," she said. "And I have a husband who is … just my partner in life and in everything. Talk about two very different people, we are so different from one another but we share the same values … we’re totally two peas in a pod. We’re both just weird enough for each other."
"We women are objectified so much," she continued. "And somehow my husband has just been able to kind of show me what it’s like not to have that be a part of a relationship, and being an equal."
Diaz added that Madden supports her ambitions equally. "I never experienced that before. I’d never been loved in that way," she said. "Where he and (his brother) Joel came from and what they've accomplished in their lives … just the drive, for the purest reasons. They push themselves. I look at him every day and he inspires me. He works so hard. I feel so lucky."
Contributing: Andrea Mandell
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