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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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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Cameron talked about feeding popcorn at the Superbowl this year. She explained that A-Rod had been hovering over her popcorn and she felt bad swatting him away.

She told Rodriguez, “I love you too much. I’m gonna give it to you,” and fed him a piece of her snack. A few minutes later, both of their phones were blowing up as their photo was blasted all over the media and their friends were calling to tell them!

After making a name for herself as the sunny center of film comedies, the actress relished the chance to play an incorrigible educator in ‘Bad Teacher.’

After 17 years of winning over moviegoers with her mile-long legs, breezy confidence and wide, almost goofy smile, one of Hollywood’s consummate charmers has had enough. Cut the charisma and cue the contempt: It’s time, finally, to loathe Cameron Diaz.

As an unrepentant moral scourge in her new film “Bad Teacher,” Diaz plays Elizabeth Halsey — an educator who steals, cheats, lies, sleeps in class, smokes pot in the school parking lot and swears like a trucker, often in red pen remarks scrawled on the work of her middle-school students. Dumped by her sugar daddy, Elizabeth’s goal is to make enough money for a pair of breast implants that she thinks will help earn her the affections of another meal ticket, a teacher with a trust fund (Justin Timberlake) who’s as mild as she is wild.

Thirty pages into reading the script, Diaz says she thought she’d pass on the role. Instead, she made a conscious decision to try something new.

“I’m trained as an actor to look for a character to be someone at the end who people like. Reading this script, I was thinking, there’s no way out of this for this girl,” Diaz says, twirling her hair and sipping a soy milk latte at a Beverly Hills restaurant. “She does so many things that are so selfish and narcissistic and closed off. How can she be redeemed?”

In person Diaz, 38, is perky but guarded, and fond of the word “amazing.” The script? Amazing. Her costars? Amazing. The set? Amazing. That soy milk latte? Also apparently pretty darn good. But the indefatigably cheerful actress confesses she found a certain liberation in Elizabeth’s dismal disposition.

“Her disdain for life is one that I relished playing,” Diaz says. “I’m such a cheerleader, it’s kind of fun to play a character who thinks everything sucks.”

And then, you realize, she’s doing it again: Playing rotten and R-rated, Diaz may make us like her even more. Which is exactly what “Bad Teacher” director Jake Kasdan had in mind.

“She’s probably the only actress of her generation that people are actually excited to see behave this badly,” Kasdan says. “It’s part of her relationship with the audience at this point that she is this gorgeous woman who can do raunchy. Cameron appeals to both genders in a very real way. People just want to hang out with her.”

A native of San Diego and a teenage model, Diaz came to fame in Hollywood the 1990s playing sexy but wide-eyed characters. At 21, she stepped into the first scene of “The Mask” in a slinky red dress, providing Jim Carrey with an excuse to stammer and gape and elevating the stock hot-girl role enough to earn herself a string of indie film parts.

As the high school crush who got away from Ben Stiller in “There’s Something About Mary” in 1998, Diaz was the naive center of a gross-out comedy that helped pave the way for low-brow franchises like “The Hangover” and “American Pie.” In the movie’s most famous scene, Mary mistakes a bodily fluid for hair gel.

“Mary, the character, the movie, was sort of innocent,” Diaz said. “But Elizabeth is definitely a different kind of woman than existed in the ’90s. She’s driven in a different way. Comedy is always a reflection of what we can laugh at about ourselves. Humor is really just people telling the truth. It just depends what truth needs to be told at that time.”

Now is the time, it seems, for leading ladies who are in on the joke. “Bad Teacher” comes on the heels of “Bridesmaids,” the Kristen Wiig movie that has earned $124 million at the box office and proved that audiences will turn out for an R-rated comedy driven by a band of mischievous females. Another test of the nascent genre will arrive in September with Anna Faris’ “What’s Your Number?” about a frisky young woman wondering just how many men she can get away with bedding.

“Bad Teacher” was made for less than $20 million from a script by writers of NBC’s “The Office,” Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg — a sum that would only have covered Diaz’s salary on “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle,” according to Forbes magazine. The actress took a drastic pay cut to get “Bad Teacher” greenlighted. The supporting cast includes Jason Segel of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” as a gym teacher more suited to Diaz’s character than the rich guys she’s chasing; Lucy Punch of “Hot Fuzz” as Elizabeth’s goodie-goodie nemesis; and Phyllis Smith of “The Office” as a complaisant friend in awe of Elizabeth’s reckless bravado. (more…)