Photos of Cameron Diaz on Cover of Cosmopolitan July 2009 Issue, The Naked Centrefolds Special Edition

With My Sister's Keeper out on 26 June, newly single Cameron Diaz is quite the cover star this month. She's on the front of Cosmopolitan UK's special Naked Centrefolds issue, and chatted with the magazine about children, sex education and the after life. Here are the highlights:

• On women not wanting children: "I think women are afraid to say that they don’t want children because they’re going to get shunned. But I think that’s changing too now. I have more girlfriends who don’t have kids than those that do. And honestly? We don’t need any more kids. We have plenty of people on this planet."
• On whether she wants children: "I never say never. I don’t know what’s going to happen. I could end up adopting half a dozen kids, or I could end up being the next ‘octomum’ – who fricking knows!"

To find out what Cameron looks for in a boyfriend, and her views on the after life, just read more.

• On sex education: "I was in England recently and I caught this programme [The Sex Education Show on C4] about women going to schools and showing kids 25 sets of real boobs and one set of fake ones, and vaginas. The whole lot was on TV. It was amazing. And I was, like, that’s what we need to do. We need to inform kids that it’s not real for everyone to look a certain way … Boys expect girls to look like what they see, and vice versa. We’re so inundated with images of what we should look like. I think there should be a disclaimer the same way there is on a pack of smokes – these people do not really look this way."
• On body confidence: "I think we have to be confident and accept ourselves for who we are. I think the biggest power a woman has is over her body … being able to control what you put in it. I mean, look at a car – it runs on gasoline, so you’re not going to go and fill it up with Jell-O. Our bodies are machines too – we just haven’t been taught that. We need to teach kids early on how to exercise and take care of their bodies, physically, mentally and spiritually."
• On feeling sexy: "It’s incredibly important [to feel sexy]. It’s part of being an animal, it’s part of being human. You have to feel sexy – and I mean in the way that you feel sexy. Not in the images you see that say, ‘This is what sexy is – you have to look like this to be sexy,’ or ‘You have to fit into this dress or this lingerie.’ Sexy can be anything. If more women embraced their own sexuality and their own sexiness, then men would pick up on that."
• On what she looks for in a boyfriend: "What’s changed from 10 years ago is that now I want a man who knows who he is. Someone who understands himself, has already dealt with his issues and who can say, 'I see where I’ve been foolish before and I’m not going to be like that again.'"
• On her belief in an after life: "I believe we have many lives and that our spirits are everlasting. I know I have many guardian angels with me all the time – I’ve always been aware of that since I was a child, and I’m very grateful. They’re there with you, you know? They guide you."

It sounds like Cameron is feeling positive, thanks to her costars and her strong sense of self. The full interview appears in the July issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, on sale today.