Eva Mendes recently spoke about embracing her sexiness at 50 and her views on cosmetic treatments to maintain her youthful glow.
The Cuban-American beauty, looking as radiant as she did in her last film, 2015’s Lost River, directed by her husband Ryan Gosling, revealed that she’s open to beauty procedures, as long as they offer reversible results.
“I’m not afraid to try things that are safe, because most of these small treatments, let’s say, are reversible,” he shared in a recent interview with The times.
Revealing that she has experimented with Botox and other temporary cosmetic treatments, she said: “If you do Botox, it goes away if you don’t like it.” There have been times when I regret something… and then you just wait it out.’
The candid conversation comes after the star, who stepped away from Hollywood following the birth of her first child with Gosling in 2014, previously addressed critics who accused her of denying plastic surgery rumours.
Eva Mendes recently spoke about embracing her sexiness at 50 and her views on cosmetic treatments to maintain her youthful glow.
The Cuban-American beauty, who looks as radiant as she did in her last film, 2015’s Lost River directed by her husband Ryan Gosling, revealed that she’s open to beauty procedures, as long as they offer reversible results.
Mendes took to social media in 2021 and said she “wanted to clear up” some things after her response to a comment led fans to claim she “denied the plastic surgery allegations.”
“I have never denied plastic surgery,” she wrote. “All I did was respond to a specific comment about SM,” he continued. ‘I would never deny those things. I am totally in favor. All. For. He.’
At the time, she also shared photos of herself undergoing a procedure called Mono-threading, which involves the insertion of pointed threads at various points to help lift and tighten the skin.
In her interview with The Times, the star also admitted that Gosling makes her feel “really fucking sexy.”
She has been in a romance with the Hollywood star, 43, since 2011 and reportedly tied the knot in a secret ceremony in 2016.
Eva credited Ryan for always making her feel good about herself and admitted that she “never considers herself beautiful.”
But thanks to Barbie star Ryan, Eva said she feels on top of the world when he “takes a look” at her.
she said The times: ‘Sometimes I feel fucking sexy. 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.
In 2020, she shared photos of herself undergoing a procedure called Mono-threading, which involves inserting threads with needles at various points to help lift and tighten the skin.
The star also admitted that Gosling makes her feel “so fucking sexy”; (pictured in 2013)
‘There are so many things that can make me feel sexy and I would say I feel sexier than not. I guess because I’ve never considered myself beautiful, but I’ve always felt very sexy.’
The star shares daughters Esmeralda, 10, and Amada, eight, with Ryan.
Mendes’ biggest hits as an actress included Training Day (2001, in her breakthrough role playing Denzel Washington’s lover), Hitch (2005) and The Other Guys (2010), before starring opposite Gosling in The Place Beyond the Pines. (2012).
In 2014, the same year she had her first child, she stepped away from Hollywood.
“I was never in love with acting. I’m not saying this in a self-critical way, but I wasn’t a great actress,” he told the outlet.
“I had moments where I worked with really great people,” she said, adding that she’s most proud of the two films she worked on with Gosling, 2012’s Lost River and The Place Beyond the Pines.
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 doesn’t allow their home-schooled children to use smartphones or social media at 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 Internet and saying, ‘Oh, look something up,’ that to me is like saying, ‘Oh, just go outside in the middle of the night.’ You’ll be fine.” Mendes, 50, revealed.
The star also admitted that Gosling makes her feel “so fucking sexy”; (pictured at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, in August)
“I know it sounds extreme, but that’s how I feel,” the actress added.
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 kids,” Mendes said, before admitting that she herself was a “good kid” 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 boy.”
During the interview, the retired actress credited Gosling for making her feel “sexy” in her 50s.
“Sometimes I feel fucking sexy,” she 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 sexy and heavy couple first met in August 2011 after they both signed on to star in the epic crime drama The Place Beyond The Pines.
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 Beyond 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 Beyond 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.
Mesnes has been promoting her new picture book: Desi, Mami, And The Never-Ending Worries since its release on September 17.
Finally, the couple made their red carpet debut at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote The Place Beyond The Pines in September 2012.
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 Never-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 real 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.
