Stay-at-home Diaz.
You couldn’t throw a sock full of wet chewing gum in the nineties and two-thousands without hitting a Cameron Diaz movie poster, it seemed. She was one of the biggest stars of the era, but her last role was in 2014, and in 2018 she told Entertainment Weekly that she was “actually retired.”
She wants to spend as much time as possible with her kid while her husband Benji Madden works. No nanny for this famous A-lister. Going from a red carpet delight to a stay-at-home mom isn’t a move many people would make, but sometimes the thing you’re meant to do in life isn’t what you always expect.
Andrew Shue
From an aspiring writer to a media giant.
For anybody who tuned in to “Melrose Place” during the nineties, Andrew Shue was Billy Campbell, the aspiring writer and ladies man. Before the show even ended, however, Shue was an entrepreneur.
He co-founded DoSomething.org in 1993, a nonprofit that motivates young generations to make positive changes online and off. He went on from there, co-founding Club Mom, an offline shopping club. After that came the social networking site CafeMom, and the digital media giant CafeMedia, which has 102 million monthly unique visitors and 417 million social followers, according to LinkedIn.
Willa Ford
Wanted to be bad but is actually pretty good.
Willa Ford announced what she was about in 2001 when she released the single “I Wanna Be Bad,” which climbed up to number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her second single, however, came out on September eleventh, 2001, and when it failed to get anywhere she decided the music industry wasn't for her.
She dipped her toe into acting and gets roles every now and again, but she currently works full-time as an interior designer. She's the founder and head designer of Los Angeles-based Wford Interiors, channeling her creative energy into making beautiful spaces for her clients.
Danny Lloyd
Shining bright like a farmer.
In 1980, Lloyd starred alongside Jack Nicholson and Shelly Duvall in the blockbuster horror hit “The Shining,” but after that Lloyd didn't appear in much. In fact, one of the few roles he's had since the eighties was in “Doctor Sleep,” the distant sequel to “The Shining” which came out in 2019.
His Twitter bio states that he's a teacher and a farmer, two of the most down-to-earth jobs that we can think of. Fun fact: While he was filming “The Shining,” Lloyd had no idea it was a horror film — director Stanley Kubrick didn't let him see any of the scary stuff.
Shaquille O'Neal
Shaq is busy off-court.
The biggest basketball player to ever hit the court — figuratively and literally — has had plenty of small roles during his life, including novelty rapper, movie star, and Icy Hot salesman. Once he stepped away from the spotlight, however, he started to do even better.
He went back to college to earn an MBA as well as a doctorate in education. He's become an honorary sheriff's deputy in Georgia, and he even got his music career back up with a recent track about LaVar Ball. He also sits behind the desk for TNT as an NBA analyst as his full-time job. The big guy keeps busy.