{"id":271388,"date":"2019-04-16T14:21:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1033164"},"modified":"2019-04-16T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T20:21:52","slug":"how-falling-in-love-with-ryan-gosling-changed-eva-mendes-mind-about-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/how-falling-in-love-with-ryan-gosling-changed-eva-mendes-mind-about-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"How Falling in Love With Ryan Gosling Changed Eva Mendes&#8217; Mind About Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"29\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/eva_mendes\">Eva Mendes<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;is opening up about her marriage to&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ryan_gosling\">Ryan Gosling<\/a><\/strong> and how motherhood changed her life in a new interview with <em>Women&#8217;s Health<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/eva-mendes-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">magazine.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old actress is the cover star of the May issue, where she dishes on what it&#8217;s like to be a mother of two.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just starting to get out of survival mode,&#8221;&nbsp;Eva says. It&#8217;s been almost five years since the actress and her hubby welcomed their first child together, <strong>Esmeralda<\/strong>, before quickly welcoming their second daughter, <strong>Amada<\/strong>, a year and a half later. Since then, their life has turned into a frenzy of diapers, play dates and such, but the&nbsp;<em>Hitch&nbsp;<\/em>star says she is &#8220;more than happy&#8221; to be a mom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although, she admits it isn&#8217;t easy to raise two toddlers, adding,&#8221;My heart goes out to women who do this alone.&#8221; She explains that she and&nbsp;Ryan have an &#8220;amazing support group&#8221; that comprises her mom, his mom, and both their sisters, who help raise their two kids.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>In retrospect, Eva claims she never thought she would be a mother, that is, until she met and fell in love with Ryan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was the furthest thing from my mind,&#8221; she&nbsp;admits. &#8220;Ryan Gosling happened. I mean, falling in love with him. Then it made sense for me to have&#8230;not kids, but&nbsp;<em>his<\/em> kids. It was very specific to him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019316\/rs_634x846-190416115812-634-Eva-Mendes-Womens-Health-1-LT-041619.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Eva Mendes, Women's Health Magazine\" alt=\"Eva Mendes, Women's Health Magazine\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Molly Creeden<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"16\">\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Ghost Rider<\/em> actress&nbsp;also talks about&nbsp;shifting her focus from Hollywood to&nbsp;her family and parenting. &#8220;I felt a lack of ambition if I can be honest,&#8221; the mom says about her work. &#8220;I feel more ambitious in the home right now than I do in the workplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She says motherhood is a constant learning experience and her kids are always challenging her in so many ways. &#8220;I have to rise up, and hopefully, most of the time I do, but sometimes it&#8217;s definitely maddening.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eva sees raising kids as&nbsp;a high profile celebrity couple as a challenge, but shares that she plans to instill appreciation in her kids by shielding her kids from her work and just being &#8220;Mom.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s definitely a concern,&#8221; she shares. &#8220;Not only are we in the industry, but the whole fame component is super scary when you try to raise your kids.&#8221; Eva confesses that she doesn&#8217;t even let her kids see how much&nbsp;&#8220;attention&#8221;&nbsp;she puts into how she dresses and gets ready for work.&nbsp;&#8220;The way I keep it normal is by not letting them see me in these situations. I&#8217;m just Mom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033164\/how-falling-in-love-with-ryan-gosling-changed-eva-mendes-mind-about-motherhood?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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