The Highest Paid Female Celebrities Rely on Talent and Not Good Looks

Julia Roberts has for years enjoyed being at the top or near the top of the list of highest paid female celebrities. What's the secret of her success? She was never the most attractive or most voluptuous of females. But nevertheless, she has "it". And whatever "it" is, she's used it to her fullest advantage.

She was born in an actor's family in Smyrna Beach (Georgia), in 1967. Her mother and father supervised her while attending an amateur school of drama arts, while her older brother Eric became a known film actor. Julia Roberts was one of the youngest cinema stars of the late 80's and early 90s. Tall, thin, with long hands, angular, with excessively sharp features, she did not meet the typical Hollywood standards. She might never become the one of the highest paid female celebrities and her name would be unknown if not for her eyes and sensuous, rather large eat-an-entire-watermelon-in-one-bite mouth. The dark, shining, expressive, big radiant eyes gave Julia Roberts a unique, fragile, almost innocent beauty.

The appearance of Julia would suite more a thoughtful student than one of the highest paid female celebrities. However, destiny has disposed so that exactly Roberts became the sensation of 1990. In Hollywood she became the star #1 and has named the "sexist film actress" by People Magazine.

Having left school at seventeen and firmly having decided to become an actress, Julia Roberts left her native small town and went to New York. She worked as a saleswoman in a department store and patiently waited for a break. The happy event turned up, when her brother Eric began to look for a partner for a role of the hero's sister in a western he was starring in. It is natural that dreaming about movies and cinema, Julia auditioned for more roles than she got. And though her brother's film was less than even a modest success, it provided her with the big break she sought. Critics noticed her and liked what they saw.

Lucky, you might say, but why not? Every one of the highest paid female celebrities has taken their chance, and Cameron Diaz is no exception. She was born on August 30, 1972 in Long Beach (California). The blood of almost all main ethnic groups of America - American Indian, English, German (on the part of mother), Spanish, Negro (on the part of the father, the emigrant from Cuba) flows in her veins.

In this unusual mixture, it is necessary to search for roots of that artistry which has been brightly shown already in her first film. They usually say about such girls - Not so beautiful, but nice. The round face, full lips on which continually there is a crafty smile, show her goodhearted and open nature and wins the hearts of audiences at once. Besides, she reminded many of a young Michel Pfeiffer. When she was 16, the photographer from a model agency noticed her and soon Cameron signed a contract, and for the next three years she traveled around the world. In 1994, while on location modeling for an advertiser, she got acquainted with the producer of "Mask" and was offered a small part it in the movie. It too, served as Cameron Diaz' big break.

The young model had to be serious to get the role of Ooze Carlisle, the singer from a night club and simultaneously the girlfriend of the gangster. The nice blonde decorated the film by the charm and virtuosity. After that she received the role in "Feeling Minnesota", but only second-hand, because fellow actress Gwyneth Paltrow refused it.

So one person's garbage was another's gold. And for Cameron Diaz she has been laughing hr way to the