Estylo July 2007 - Cameron Diaz interview

On surfing:
Estylo: When did you learn to surf?
Diaz: I actually didn’t learn to surf until the last Charlie’s Angels. Everybody thinks I’ve surfed my whole life, but I just picked it up three years ago. I love surfing. I would love to live in Hawaii. I do get to go there once a year. I grew up in California, and because my folks worked full-time, we would take the bus to the beach only during the summer. But I never surfed because I didn’t have anybody to teach me.

Estylo: What is it that you love about surfing?
Diaz: It’s like being in touch with a higher power. You’re getting to experience Mother Nature. Imagine a wave that’s been traveling thousands of miles, coming from Tahiti to Hawaii. It’s had this journey over canyons and throughout the ocean. It’s coming through all this life to get to the shores of Hawaii. And you are riding it on its last journey, the last bit of energy that it’s been carrying for thousands of miles. You are riding it onto shore. There is so much in that water—so much energy, so much power—and it’s all created from Mother Nature or God or whatever you connect to. And that, for me, it’s like being in touch with God, to have that sort of experience. It’s completely healing. If I put a toe in the water, I’m balanced. I’m a big water person. I mean, it’s an alien world under there for us. We don’t know what exists in the ocean.

Estylo: What kind of bikinis do you wear when you go surfing?
Diaz: There is one—Pualani, which are really great Hawaiian bikinis—that I’ve worn over the last few years. I just like the stretch. I like to wear the tiniest ones out on the water for hours because I hate tan-lines.

Estylo: You know sun is bad for your skin, don’t you?
Diaz: Yeah, I do. But I slather myself in sunscreen. I’m, like, slathered. But I also like a bikini that stays on. So I’m wearing a small bikini—but it has to stay on!

On travel:
Estylo: Let’s talk about your eco-travels. You recently ventured to Butan. What drew you there?
Diaz: Just to be able to see those parts of the world, I mean, is just amazing. I went there for [the MTV show] Trippin, so it was work. And the filming schedule was really intense. In Chile, we went to the desert and the rainforest—and that was all just to show the viewers what our planet is [all about], you know? How people exist and how we are endangering these places. We want to bring attention to our behavior as human beings and how it affects the planet and the environment. And how that, in turn, affects us because it all comes back around. You know, there isn’t a box that holds our waste and takes it to outer space. Eventually, there is an effect for everything we throw away.

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