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Cameron Diaz: I had fist fights at school

Actress knows how to take care of herself

Tomboy Cameron Diaz, 34, insists her nose is slightly crooked because it's been broken four times – the first time when she was 12.

'I don't know what happened exactly. Someone hit me and I just fell flat on my face,' she says.

Fist-fights and punch-ups were the norm when she was a schoolgirl growing up in Los Angeles, but she didn't let it bother her.

'Our school was in the ghetto,' she tells Night & Day Live magazine. 'I mean, it was hardcore. There were metal detectors, bared wire and fences. It was a street-smart school.

'You had to be tough to survive and you had to know how to fight.

'Being a really, really skinny kid, I was extra determined to be tougher than the others. I could defend myself.'

If she ever got into a scrap with boyfriend Justin Timberlake, our money's on Cameron.

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