Cameron Diaz’s life is up in the air.

Literally.

She has logged thousands of miles on planes, and that’s just in one recent week, with a whirlwind trip through New York, Miami and Vegas.

“I think I was meant to live on the road,” Diaz says, stretching out those magnificently toned legs that seem to go on forever. “I have been doing it since I was 16, and when I am somewhere for too long, I always get an itch to go someplace else.”

This pit stop in Los Angeles is just for the USA WEEKEND photo shoot and interview. A fizz of anticipation is in her familiar voice as she talks; she’ll be hopping on a red-eye flight right after the interview to Manhattan, where photographers will catch her the next day coming out of a gym with her boyfriend, Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.

At 38, when women in and outside Hollywood are feeling nostalgic about their younger, buoyant selves, Cameron Diaz has never lost hers.

“When you feel physically strong, it makes you feel different in the world and in your clothes,” Diaz says.

Ironically, the peripatetic actress has never been more grounded. She is in love and at the top of her game in her career, and with Bad Teacher, which lands in theaters this weekend, the superstar has never looked better or been a bigger box-office draw.

In her new comedy, Diaz plays a drunken, pot-smoking, foul-mouthed teacher from hell. Worse, she motivates her students to win a state competition so she can get breast implants to win over a wealthy substitute teacher played by her real-life ex-boyfriend, Justin Timberlake.

“We have always liked each other,” she says (they split in 2007). “I am not the same person I was when I was with Justin. Our lives have moved in different directions, and that’s OK.”

At 5-foot-9 and size 0, the ageless A-lister is whippet-thin, wearing jeans and a white shirt. Her face is bare of makeup, which is the way she likes it: “My skin is happier when I do less.” (At night she uses a light wash and moisturizer and leaves it at that.)

Still, even Diaz has had to make some concessions to aging. Gone are the days when she could eat fried food every day.

“I used to eat fried food from morning to night when I was in my 20s,” Diaz says as she sips a soy latte. “But I have really had to make some changes. I love fried chicken and french fries. I can’t do that anymore. As I get older, I realized I was working a little bit harder at digesting what I was eating, and I thought it is not fair to my body to keep doing this. If you are giving it a bunch of crap all the time, it will break down quicker and deteriorate quicker, so I stopped.”

Instead, in the summer she loves to grill fresh vegetables with herbs and chicken, fish, steak and shrimp, all with a swipe of oil. She adds salt after she takes them off the barbecue. Her breakfast of champions is a combination of egg whites, sautéed tomatoes and steel-cut oatmeal, all mixed together. She doesn’t eat white pasta or white bread.

One summer ritual she refuses to give up: hot dogs, beer and ballgames. All of it reminds her of her father, Emilio Diaz, an oil company foreman who died in 2008 at age 58 when a flu turned into pneumonia. Cameron, the youngest of three children and raised in San Diego, spent her childhood attending Los Angeles Dodgers games with him. Her mother, Billie, is an import-export agent.

“There is nothing like a Dodger dog and beer,” Diaz gushes. “It is such pure joy to have a great hot dog at a sporting event.” She likes hers with the works, including a healthy dollop of mayo.

And despite her jet-setting life, Diaz makes it all work.

“I can sleep anywhere, anytime,” declares the star, who left home at 16 to be a model. “I sleep on planes, no problem. I just take my purse and a pillow and build a little bridge.”

She makes it sound so simple.

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I’ve updated the gallery with 11 medium quality photos from Cameron’s photoshoot she did this month for the L.A. Times. Enjoy!

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Photoshoot Sessions > Set #106

In “Bad Teacher,” a breezily crude comedy about unladylike pleasures like guzzling booze, swearing at children and being mean because, well, you can be, Cameron Diaz taps into her inner thug. It’s a beautiful thing. A performer with a gift for light comedy and a comically ductile face that can work in fascinating counterpart to her rocking hot body (as her character would say), Ms. Diaz has found her down-and-dirty element in the kind of broad comedy that threatens to get ugly and more or less succeeds on that threat.

Written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, and directed by Jake Kasdan, the movie is high-concept low comedy and as pared down as a haiku: a beautiful woman, without an apparent conscience, wreaks havoc. There’s no hint of how nasty Ms. Diaz, or rather her character, Elizabeth, can be when you first see her tucked into a dreary field of other middle-school teachers, standing out like a yellow rose. With thorns.

It’s the last day of class and she’s out of there forever, peeling out in a sports car that takes her right back home to the meal ticket she calls her fiancé. But before she can cash that ticket he’s gone, leaving her stranded and forced back into teaching, a profession for which she’s so constitutionally unsuited it borders on the criminal.

Nothing she does really crosses the line except getting stoned at school and maybe bouncing a ball off the heads of students who don’t answer her questions correctly. There’s also the black bra that she whips off in inappropriate and possibly illegal circumstances along with the airline-size bottles of hooch she keeps tucked in her classroom desk. About all she doesn’t do wrong is sleep with her students, though that may be because she’s too busy narrowing her sights on the only prospect in view, a new teacher, Scott (Justin Timberlake), a bore with family money who wears bowties without irony. So she smiles, battles a rival, Amy (Lucy Punch), and ignores a more suitable love interest, Russell (Jason Segel).

That more or less takes care of the story though there’s more for your pleasure, notably an entertaining, smartly cast crew of professional funnymen like John Michael Higgins, as a principal with a dolphin fetish, and Thomas Lennon, as a school official who becomes a bump in the road that Elizabeth flattens. Mr. Timberlake does a nice job playing a Poindexter, mostly by flipping his sexyback reputation — as he has done on “Saturday Night Live” — and letting himself look the fool (by, among other things, singing a maladroitly rhymed ditty called “Simpatico” off-key). The affable Mr. Segel does what he often does, which is win you over with nice-guy appeal and a lazy smile that says, oh yeah, we could have fun together.

Mostly, though, there are the funny women, among them Ms. Punch, a British actress with a spot-on American accent and crack timing who hasn’t registered in movies until now but who could be a star. It’s a stealth performance that hums along with quiet menace before going to Defcon 5, a blowout that the Gumby-limbed Ms. Punch accomplishes with mad eyes and an eruption of facial tics.

Ms. Punch and the wonderful Phyllis Smith (from the American version of “The Office”), as Lynn, Elizabeth’s dithering, sweetly befuddled pal, give Ms. Diaz terrific support. The story spends the requisite time on Elizabeth’s man-baiting and chomping ways, but it’s her relations with these women that help make “Bad Teacher” into something more than the latest in big-screen giggles and flatulence.

A funny woman with too many unfunny movies on her résumé, Ms. Diaz was born too late for the kind of rich Hollywood career she deserves. (Howard Hawks might have done her right.) These days she’s best known for voicing Princess Fiona in the “Shrek” movies and maybe just being Mr. Timberlake’s ex (and A-Rod’s squeeze). She’s had great moments, including in her best films, “There’s Something About Mary” and “Being John Malkovich,” and she was sweetly absurd dancing around in her panties as one of Charlie’s Angels. It’s painful, though, watching her slum through “What Happens in Vegas,” playing off an unworthy foil like Ashton Kutcher, another reason it’s a relief to see her surrounded by the talent packed into “Bad Teacher.”

Mr. Kasdan isn’t a sparkling visual stylist, but he does some things just right. He’s particularly adept at distilling the movie’s concept into single hieroglyphic-like images, as when Elizabeth, wearing sunglasses, races her car in reverse with a cigarette stuck in her hard, hard mouth or slumps in her teacher’s chair in a hangover fog, looking for all the world like the love child of W. C. Fields and Lorelei Lee.

With “Bridesmaids” still doing gangbusters at the box office, Hollywood apparently thinks it’s time for the ladies to get their hands and other parts dirty. Well, if that’s what it takes to get women out of the house, off the pedestal and into the same serious comedy club where the boys frolic and play, I say let her rip.

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Cameron Diaz called into “On Air with Ryan Seacrest” on Wednesday to chat about her new movie “Bad Teacher,” her views on marriage, and what it was like to work with ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake.

Cameron worked with her ex-boyfriend Justin Timberlake in “Bad Teacher” and they even had a sex scene together.

“We strived for one thing and one thing only and that was to create the least sexiest sex scene ever put on film,” clarified Cameron. “When you see it, you will see exactly what I’m talking about.”

“I mean my job is to come to work and be as absurd as possible,” she added. “All day long we just try to do whatever we can for a laugh, which clearly we’ll do anything for a laugh.”

In recent articles, it’s been reported that Cameron has strong views on how the institution of marriage is evolving and that she’s completely written off tying the knot with boyfriend Alex Rodriguez.

“No, I didn’t say that,” explained Cameron. “I will say, I never say never to anything. I was just saying that marriage as it stands, the idea that we have, all the traditions that marriage is, that’s dying. That we should re-form and maybe re-think what marriage is and how marriage works,” Cameron clarifies.

Cameron also had this to say about relationships, marriage and its definition.

“Relationships are tough and the longer you’re there the harder they are. I think that marriage just puts a certain strain on it. I think that there is a little something about being partners and not the idea of what our concept of marriage is, I think it throws people off after awhile.”

Cameron continues, “I think we need to define it for ourselves and make it a little bit more sexy and little bit more modern in the ideals of how the world works. Things are different these days. We have all kinds of ways of connecting with one another and it’s just not what it was when we first designed marriage.”

For you eighties fans out there, Cameron’s new movie “Bad Teacher” pays homage to Tawny Kitaen in the car wash scene. You will remember Tawny, known for her provocative appearance in the Whitesnake video where she rolled around on the hood of the car. The scene was also inspired by Warrant‘s “Cherry Pie.”

Cameron says her character in “Bad Teacher,” Elizabeth Hasley was a fun roll to play. “Because she doesn’t apologize for anything, nothing. She’s doesn’t care, she has no conscience and everybody wishes that they could just say what they want and do what they want to do without ever having a conscience about it.”

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Thanks to my friend at World of Justin for this video of Cameron at the ‘Bad Teacher’ premiere in NYC!