She is one of the most popular celebrities in Hollywood. Not only did her career give her a name within the industry, but her marriage to Ryan Gosling – who she has been with since 2011 – gave her enormous exposure. Together they form one of the most stable couples on the scene and, although they do not usually speak publicly about their intimacy, Eva Mendes She told how her husband empowered her, making her feel like a sexy woman. At the same time, she confessed that she does not consider herself a good actress and what is her condition to return to the screen.
It was in a recent interview with The Times that the protagonist of Hitch told details of her relationship with the actor Diary of a passion. After confessing that she never considered herself a “beautiful” woman, Mendes acknowledged that Gosling makes her feel powerfully attractive. “Sometimes I feel very sexy. The way my man looks at me is just… Sometimes I think: ‘oh my God,’” the 50-year-old interpreter revealed to the London media. “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 many things that can make me feel sexy. “I guess it’s because I’ve never considered myself beautiful, but I’ve always felt very sexy,” she added.
Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have been together since 2011 – Credits: @LOIC VENANCE
While he empowers her in this sense, she has become a fundamental pillar of her career, especially when she has to play roles that involve a great acting challenge. Such was the case of Barbiewhere Gosling stepped into Ken’s shoes. “I simplified everything. I was like, ‘Make Barbie notice you, make Barbie fall in love with you. That’s what Ken’ is about. “He really loved that,” she said while stating that she would only consider returning to the screen if Ryan is her male co-star.
The actress left the sets in 2014 when she gave birth to her first daughter, Esmeralda (10). Then, with the arrival of Amanda (8), her decision to dedicate herself fully to raising her little girls increased. However, she admitted that her decision to move away from the medium did not cost her much, since she was never really in love with her career. “I don’t say this in a self-critical tone, but I wasn’t a great actress. I had my moments when I worked with really great people,” he confessed. “He brings out something in me that has never been accessible before,” she added regarding how it feels to work with her husband.
In fact, Mendes and Gosling worked together in 2011 on Crossroad, film in which they fell in love forever. Then, when the actor debuted as a director with Lost River (2014) called her for a secondary role. However, since then, Eva has not appeared on screen again, although she did provide her voice in the children’s animated series Bluey.
The actors in the film they shared in 2012 – Credits: @The Grosby Group
“I got tired of fighting to get good roles,” she revealed in a note with Variety in 2022. “Now there are more opportunities for Latina actresses, but when I left ten years ago they didn’t offer me things that weren’t specially designed for Latinas. “I am glad that things have changed and who knows what I will do in the future, but in the meantime I prefer to stay at home with my daughters,” she said at the time.
Although the actress disappeared from the screen, she took advantage of all these years to develop her role as a businesswoman. She designed bedding and dinnerware for Macy’s, was creative director of the makeup brand CIRCA Beauty, and wrote a children’s book called Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worrieswhich is about a mother who helps her daughter learn to deal with anxiety.
In the same interview with The Times, the celebrity with Latin roots talked about raising her daughters and what she is like as a mother, her favorite role. After saying that he does not allow them to use cell phones or social networks, he explained: “Putting my daughter on the Internet and telling her: ‘Oh, search for something,’ for me is equivalent to saying: ‘Oh, go outside in the middle of the night.’ . Everything will be fine.’ I know it sounds extreme, but that’s how I feel.”
Eva Mendes left acting to dedicate herself fully to raising Esmeralda and Amada – Credits: @Grosby Group
Regarding how he manages to educate them in total anonymity and without privileges (due to their fame), he expressed: “I explain to them what I didn’t have, what Ryan didn’t have when he was little, how much we had to fight, the Dark days when we had to live paycheck to paycheck, and this and that, but you’ll never really know unless you experience that. I still have all this anxiety and I see myself passing it on to my children. Subconsciously I can’t imagine what they are inheriting from me that I don’t want them to inherit from me,” concluded who is currently living in London for her husband’s job.
