Cameron Diaz is finally ready to embrace life as a working mom.

After taking a decade off from acting to get married and raise her and husband Benji Madden's family—which includes 5-year-old daughter Raddix and son Cardinal, 10 months—the 52-year-old revealed why she was more than happy to put her career on the back-burner before recently returning to Hollywood to star in her new Netflix action film Back in Action.