According to the latest tabloid gossip updates Other Woman star Cameron Diaz is ready to take her relationship with Good Charlotte boyfriend Benji Madden to the next level, despite their having reportedly only been dating for the past couple of months. Though in the past Cameron has dismissed the idea of being bound by any desire for marriage with children, it seems the There's Something About Mary star might have changed her mine. According to the actress's friends, after years of seeing her Hollywood palls Drew Barrymore and Nicole Richie find happiness in their kids, Cameron wants to get pregnant. By all online accounts, if Benji asked Diaz if she wanted to get engaged Wednesday, Friday they'd be walking down the aisle.
It was just two short years ago that Cameron Diaz swore in an interview that she was married to the idea of getting married and settling down (via OK! Magazine):
"I'm not sitting [around] going, 'oh my god, when am I going to get married? When am I going to have a baby?'
"I've just never been in the place where I was like, Right now is the time I'm supposed to have a baby."
A friend tells OK! that that was then, and this now.
"Having kids has been weighing heavily on Cameron's mind since she became so close to Nicole.
"She's seen how much pleasure and joy she gets from her children, not to mention how much they've helped change her image from trashy reality starlet to an elegant, respected woman and revered fashionista."
"Cameron is falling hard for Benji...She's said that he could be the one and is hoping that it will be long-term.
"Cameron's not mucking around on this...She wants to be pregnant by the end of the year."
And everyone knows there is no better way to get a man to stay than to tell him you want to have his baby after 8 weeks of dating.
