Eva Mendes feels 'really fucking attractive' when Ryan Gosling 'looks at me'

Eva Mendez He is a trusting person by nature, but that self-confidence is triggered with every look from his partner. ryan gosling.

“Sometimes I feel really fucking attractive,” said Mendes, 50. Sunday weather in a profile published on Sunday, October 20. “The way my man looks at me is just…sometimes I think, 'Oh my God.'”

He added: “That may not sit well with people, but a lot of what I feel is a reflection of what he is giving me. There are so many things that can make me feel attractive and I would say that I feel more attractive than not. I guess because I have never considered myself beautiful, but I have always felt very attractive.”

Mendes and Gosling, 43, have been together since 2012 after meeting on the set of the place Beyond the Pines. Their joint projects, naturally, have been their all-time favorites.

“I was never in love with acting. I'm not saying this in a self-critical way, but I wasn't a great actress. I had moments where I worked with really great people,” Mendes admitted to the outlet. “He gets something out of me that has never been accessible before.”

Mendes left acting in 2014 when she gave birth to the couple's first child. (They share daughters Esmeralda, now 9, and Amada, now 7).

While Mendes would only consider returning to acting if Gosling were her leading man, she also supports his successful career. In fact, Mendes was Gosling's unofficial acting coach when he played Ken in 2023. Barbie.

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Phillip Faraone/Getty Pictures It takes a lot to impress the two daughters of Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling. Mendes, 50, who shares Esmeralda, 10, and Amada, 8, with the Barbie star, revealed on the Wednesday, September 18, episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon that he recently played a clip from his hit 2005 romantic comedy, Hitch. […]

“It would just simplify everything. I said, “Get Barbie to notice you, that's what Ken is all about.” Then this desperation arose. He really loved that,” Mendes recalled. “I would remind her, as she literally walks out the door, 'Make Barbie notice you, make Barbie fall in love with you.'”

Mendes, Esmeralda and Amada were Gosling's number one fans when he took on the beloved role that even earned him an Oscar nomination and a performance at the ceremony.

Mendes and Gosling keep their daughters private and off social media, practicing “conscious parenting.”

“I tell them what I didn't have, what Ryan didn't have when he was little, how hard we had to fight, the dark days when we got paid paycheck to paycheck, and this and that, but they'll never really understand. “They know it unless they experience it,” Mendes said. “The second best option [to gain perspective]according Dr. [Daniel] Amen [the author of Raising Mentally Strong Kids]“It’s getting them to really work on their self-esteem by doing things like working around the house.”