Actress Eva Mendes poses during a McHappy Day visit to Ronald McDonald House in Sydney.Photo:Tim Hunter / Newspix via Getty
Tim Hunter / Newspix via Getty
Eva Mendescan relate to all parents out there.
TheFast Fiveactress posted anInstagram Storyrevealing she was expecting to have a boring summer, but instead, she’s a “chauffeur” to her two girls, Amada Lee, 7, and Esmeralda Amada, 8, whom she shares with her husbandRyan Gosling.
“So this summer was supposed to be like an easy — I was like bring boredom back but you know things happen and like the kids want to do certain classes and things, so now I am just a chauffeur, like a water girl,” Mendes, 49, said in the clip, which she alsopublished on Threads. “It’s hot, so you know, I just bring them water.”
Mendes added she is also a “wiper downer.”
“I wipe them down because they’re all sweaty all over each other,” Mendes said. “I just wanted to say that this summer of boredom that I had planned, turned.”
Mendes and Gosling — who have been together since 2011 — first met while filmingThe Place Beyond the Pines. After playing a pretend family with Mendes in the 2012 film, Gosling, 42, realized he wanted to start a family with the actress.
“I wasn’t thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn’t want to have kids without her,“The Notebookstar toldGQin 2023, adding, “and there were moments onThe Place Beyond the Pineswhere we were pretending to be a family, and I didn’t really want it to be pretend anymore.”
Eva Mendes, Ryan Gosling.Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock
Dave Allocca/Starpix/Shutterstock
Mendes felt the same way.
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Mendes isprivate about her two daughtersand avoids posting pictures of their daily lives, she wrote on Instagram in 2020.
Still, the long-term partners have shared a few anecdotes about their kids over the years, like whenEsmeralda and Amada picked up an “Aussie twang"after living there for a month and a half in 2022.
source: people.com
