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Angelina Jolie, Madonna and Cameron Diaz
Most celebrities live a truly pampered lifestyle: Chauffer-driven limousines, designer outfits at the ready and the full VIP treatment. Yet there are some who are fashionable, beautiful and successful, but also tough, adventurous and an inspiration to others. These high flyers wouldn\'t be out of place in the RAF - read on to find out which tough cookies made the grade...
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Celebrity,Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Is there anything this woman can\'t do? Pilot, UN Ambassador, Oscar winner, humanitarian, Brad Pitt\'s girlfriend. Phew. The ultimate tough girl has it all: tattoos, gothic black tresses and bundles of attitude. Her CV is packed with action film roles and she fights like one of the boys. Would you get on the wrong side of her? No, didn\'t think so. But, as well as being tough through and through she is also an inspirational figure. She is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency doing tons of work with refugees and tirelessly promotes humanitarian causes around the globe. What a woman!
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Celebrity,Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz Cameron Diaz is the ultimate California girl, but beneath her blonde and breezy persona is an all action lady. Hollywood\'s highest paid actress is a born adventurer. No bodyguards, limos or Pilates instructors for Cameron, oh no. Not only is she a keen surfer and scuba diver, but she has backpacked through the Amazon rainforest, Peru and China and is a fierce campaigner for environmental causes. What\'s more, she has done heaps of work for AIDS, human rights and drug charities to name a few.
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Celebrity,Charlize Theron
Nelson Mandela and Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron This lady is tough with a capital ‘T\'. Not only is South African-born Charlize Theron a talented film actress, who makes bold movie choices (she famously gained three stone for her portrayal of serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster), and an Oscar winner (she won the Best Actress award for her part in the film), but she is one tough cookie. Aged just 15 she witnessed her mother murder her father with a shotgun after he attacked her in their Johannesburg home. But, she soldiered on bagged herself a modelling contract and Hollywood came calling. She also often performs many of her own stunts, once suffering a herniated disc in her neck while shooting Æon Flux. Ouch. The film beauty is also a fierce campaigner for women\'s rights and active member of animal rights group PETA. This is one gutsy woman.
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Celebrity,Madonna
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Madonna
This woman knows what she wants and gets it. Dedicated to her craft, strong and with a steely ambition (how else do you explain amassing a personal fortune of £160 million all while raising three kids?) From her Desperately Seeking Susan days, right through to the glossy and glamorous reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe to today\'s roller-disco queen, Madonna is an icon. She may have stirred up controversy and pushed the boundaries with her religious and sexual themes in the past, but she was always in control. Her strong-mindedness, sexuality, male-like aggression and ambition have cemented her status as an inspiration to women. The ultimate gym bunny is still fighting fit at 50 and in the middle of her latest gruelling world tour. Madonna we salute you!
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Jodie Kidd
Jodie Kidd Having come under fire for being too thin as a teenage catwalk model (she was slated for encouraging anorexia in young girls), earlier this year the self-confessed tomboy was dropped by her modelling agency for becoming too curvy. But, the strong minded 30-year-old stuck two fingers up to the modelling world, kept her healthier figure and threw herself into a life of sport and TV work. The talented sportswoman counts motor car racing, polo, show jumping and golf as her strengths, even competing in the tough Gumball 300 rallies. You go girl!
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Celebrity,Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal Doesn\'t everyone like Maggie? Boys like her quirky girl-next-door looks while girls respect her strong-minded personality. She may look all sweetness and light, with her twinkly eyes and creamy complexion, but this girl is strong-willed. Her independent film choices and unwillingness to conform to the blonde, Hollywood aesthetic are testament to that. But, she\'s also, along with brother Jake, a fierce supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and an anti-war protester, often partaking in demonstrations to fight for her beliefs.
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