Eva Mendes finds motherhood so "beautiful and maddening".
The ‘Ghost Rider’ star – who has Esmeralda, five, and Amada, three, with her longtime partner Ryan Gosling – absolutely loves being a mother and is "thankful" that she has an opportunity to stay at home with her kids.
She said: "It’s so fun and beautiful and maddening. It’s so hard, of course. But it’s like that feeling of … you end your day, you put them to bed and Ryan and I kind of look at each other like, ‘We did it, we did it. We came out relatively unscathed.’ I’m so thankful I have the opportunity to be home with them."
Eva and her children have been taking part in a range of activities – everything from gardening to arts and crafts to music.
She told Access Daily: "I’m a city girl but I just decided, ‘Wouldn’t it be great to start gardening and go pick the fruit from the garden?’ So we did strawberries, cucumbers, tomatoes … the girls went out to the garden every day and watered it. We were so excited. They just like a lot of arts and crafts, a lot of painting. We have instruments around. They pick them up, and we can’t say they actually play anything, but it’s just a playful environment."
Eva had revealed motherhood has made her "care less" but "care more" too.
She explained: "I don’t know. I guess I’m still in it. I’m still new to the game. I feel like in a way it makes me care less because of priorities obviously but at the same time it makes me care more. Even though I have less time to think about what I’m wearing for my day or how to put something together, I think of it more in a sense of even if I’m not with my kids, I’m always representing them. It’s always on my mind. I’m somebody’s mother and I need to act accordingly. There’s an intense amount of pressure that I feel but it’s good pressure."
Eva Mendes: Motherhood is ‘beautiful and maddening’
