Profile: Biography: Page 2

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Her patience and discipline in her acting career shows how Cameron had matured through her modeling career.  Diaz was sixteen at the time, and she happened to be at the right place at the right time... at a Hollywood party!  There she hooked up with a photographer who, within a week, helped her land a modeling contract with the Elite Modeling Agency.  She talked her father (a Cuban-American foreman) and her mother (a German, Native American, and English broker) into letting her expand her career in Japan, accompanied only by another fifteen-year-old fellow model.  Her parents were rather easy-going, taking their head-banging party-going kid everywhere.  "I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."   Her mother even accompanied her to first Van Halen concert.  So in the end, Cameron was off to Japan.  Diaz advises, "Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home."  So the next five years were spent traveling from continent to continent, country to country.  "Australia, Morocco, Paris, Mexico, here, there, everywhere," before settling in her Hollywood apartment with Carlos de La Torre, a video producer and her companion for five years.

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