Eva Mendes
Alexander Tamargo/FilmMagicEva Mendes turned 50 and confessed she didn’t expect to be “locked up.” Ryan Gosling or being a stay at home mom.
The actress with whom she shares daughters Esmeralda Amada (9) and Amada Lee (7). Barbie Star Gosling, narrates People in a new interview. “I certainly didn’t think I would have children and be locked up…a certain man came into my life and made me change my mind about all of these things.”
Mendes said it too Sportsople that the decision to give up her acting career over a decade ago to focus on her and Gosling’s children was “the easiest decision” she has ever made.
“All these years are just so formative,” she said. “I wanted to experience it all.”
Scarlett Johansson and other celebrity parents have welcomed “secret” babies over the years. Johansson has daughter Rose, born in 2014, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac, and son Cosmo, born in 2021, with husband Colin Jost. She kept her second pregnancy a secret, although Jost revealed the truth during a comedy show. “We’re having a baby,” Jost […]
She told us back in March Today It was natural for her to take a step back professionally for her two daughters.
“I’m still working, I just haven’t been acting because acting takes you to the location, takes you with it,” she explained.
Mendes and Ryan Gosling
Sonia Recchia/Getty Images“It was almost like a non-verbal agreement: ‘Okay, he’s going to work and I’m going to work – I’m just going to work here’.”
In a separate recent interview with shine, she admitted she was annoyed by how her comments were portrayed. She said: “It wasn’t twisted, it was taken out of context because I felt it was almost self-evident.
“But there was obviously a lot of thought and conversation, especially on my end, about what I wanted to do with my life… Acting requires you to be on location for months at a time. But I still wanted to work. So I had to get creative about what this work would look like.”
She added, “I just saw these quotes that there was a ‘nonverbal agreement.'” In print it said to me, “Oh wait, that makes it seem like there’s no communication.” It’s not easy that’s how it happened. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life…
“It was one of those things like, ‘Oh, crap; That’s not what I wanted to say. It was just misinterpreted, but whatever. There are worse things.”
Mendes and Gosling met on the set of their film The place Beyond the Pinesand later welcomed their children, born in 2014 and 2016.