Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have remained fairly secretive about their personal lives over the course of their romance that dates back to 2011.
But in a new interview with The times The actress and mother of two talks about the couple's two daughters, their parenting style, and one household rule that many children wouldn't like.
It turns out that the celebrity duo does not allow their home-schooled children to use smartphones or social media in their home.
Mendes and Gosling welcomed their first daughter, Esmeralda, now 10, in September 2014, and their second daughter, eight-year-old Amada, in April 2016.
“Putting my daughter on the Web and saying, “Oh, look something up,” that to me is equivalent to saying, “Oh, just go outside in the middle of the night. “You’ll be fine.” Mendes, 50, revealed.
“I know it sounds extreme, but that's what I feel,” the actress added.
In a rare discussion about her family, Eva Mendes, 50, talked about the two daughters she shares with partner Ryan Gosling and some of the household rules.
Mendes (born Eva de la Caridad Méndez) would also share how she and her partner try to educate their children about their privileged life, compared to most people in the world, by telling them stories of how they grew up with little money.
“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 were paid paycheck to paycheck, and this and that, but they'll never really understand. “They know it unless they experience it,” the Miami, Florida native explained.
After going through bouts of anxiety throughout her life, Mendes tries to instill self-esteem in their lives by giving them chores to do around the house to build their confidence.
“I still have all this anxiety and I see myself passing it on to my children,” Mendes said, before admitting that she herself was a “good girl” growing up in Miami, which she attributes to her late brother.
“He would say, 'If I ever see you with a boy or smoking, I'll kick his ass and take you to school every day,'” she recalled. “Out of pure fear he was a good child.”
During the interview, the retired actress credited Gosling for making her feel “attractive” when she was 50.
“Sometimes I feel really fucking attractive,” he gushed. 'The way my man looks at me is just…sometimes I think, oh my God. That may not sit well with people, but a lot of what I feel is a reflection of what he is giving me.
The attractive and heavy couple first met in August 2011 after they both signed on to star in the epic legal drama The Place Past The Pines.
“Putting my daughter on the Web and saying, “Oh, look something up,” that to me is equivalent to saying, “Oh, just go outside in the middle of the night. “You’ll be fine.” Mendes revealed; The couple is pictured at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, in August.
The attractive and heavy couple first met in August 2011 after they both signed on to star in the epic legal drama The Place Past The Pines; After the experience, the actor realized that he wanted to start his own family with the actress.
After playing an imaginary family with Mendes in The Place Past The Pines, Gosling realized he wanted to start his own family with the actress; seen in March 2013
In the film, the two actors played the love interests of Romina Gutiérrez, who eventually hooks up with another man, and Luke Glanton, a biker who supports his family, which includes his young son, through a life of crime. .
The new couple wasted no time and began dating during the filming of the film.
After playing an imaginary family with Mendes in The Place Past The Pines, Gosling realized he wanted to start his own family with the actress.
“I wasn't thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized I didn't want to have kids without her,” the veteran Hollywood leading man said. GQ in 2023, before adding. “There were times on The Place Past The Pines when we were pretending to be a family, and I really didn't want it to be that again.”
The couple went public with their relationship when they went to Disneyland together and were seen holding hands and walking together.
Finally, the couple made their red carpet debut at the Toronto International Film Pageant to promote The Place Past The Pines in September 2012.
Mesnes has been promoting her new picture book: Desi, Mami, And The By No Means-Ending Worries since its release on September 17.
Mendes retired from acting to focus on her family in 2014 so she could pursue other endeavors, including writing her new debut illustrated book, Desi, Mami, And The By No Means-Ending Worries, which was released on September 17. includes the actress doing the audio version of the book in her own voice.
The story centers on a girl who faces endless terrifying worries, according to Macmillan Publishers.'Every night begins with the same chorus: 'MOMMY! THERE'S A MONSTER UNDER MY BED!' Desi has so many scary thoughts!
Is your brain a monster? Of course, it's not a current monster, and Mami assures Desi of that. Sometimes we just have scary worries running through our minds. And like everything in life, you just have to work to improve things.