Eva Mendes doesn't credit Ryan Gosling's parenting skills in public and fans love her for keeping life 'private'
Eva Mendes,46, has always been one strong mama, and it was no different on social media as she responded to a user that questioned her partner, Ryan Gosling's parenting skills.
This past Thursday, a fan took to social media to comment on Mendes's Instagram post, saying, "Hi Eva, hope you will answer to my question. I really love you, really I do, but yesterday under your latest I saw that someone had thought what sometime I thought about your post. I mean sometime you seems a struggle single mother and we know that you have a man, but the way you write, I mean, seems that your husband let the hard job to you and he doesn't help you (sic)."
The comment was posted under a selfie that Mendes had put up and captioned, "Tired Mama. Stayed up laaate trying to make my baby’s 4th birthday extra special since she won’t see the family. Here’s to all you having a quarantine birthday... sending extra love. Here’s to all you tired mamas... sending extra love."
Now, this is Hollywood we're talking about. And an offensive, ignorant or snide comment was expected from the actress, but what she said had fans appreciating her honesty and gracefulness. She replied, "I love women. I'm a girls' girl. I love connecting to women. That's mainly why I have this page. So when I say I'm a ‘tired mama' and want to connect to other ‘tired mamas' it's not about excluding the fathers or other caregivers that do so much. It's just me connecting to other women but in no way does it de-value what papas do."
She further explained why she doesn't speak of Ryan and how much he contributes as a parent saying, "And why I don't talk about Ryan and all the wonderful things he does as a father is because I keep that part private. I don't want to involve him or how he parents because I don't feel comfortable crossing that boundary that I have set for myself. I feel it's best that I continue to disclose what I'm comfortable with but not involve him or my kids too much. It's not about being cagey or weird, it's just about staying private in a public space. Does that make sense? Hope so. Because this is my honest answer and I really do love connecting to you women."
"I scribe to have this type of calm response and appropriate reactions whenever someone questions my marriage or parenting style. Thank you for being candidly beautiful inside and out HBD to your princess!" commented a fan appreciating Mendes' reply.
If that wasn't a perfect response, we don't know what is. Her followers took to social media to praise the actress for her civil and honest response along with having her back on her approach to how she deals with privacy in a public setting.
"I love this reply. And I am not famous in any sense and I am also a very private person," one user shared. "I choose to keep parts of my life to myself and close family and friends. I admire this," commented one fan to which Mendes replied, "Right? I get it. I was like this wayyyy before I became an actress. I was like this when I was little and it came off as ‘secretive' but really it's just private. Thanks for getting it."
"It always blows my mind when I see people make assumptions about how good someone is at parenting. The family dynamic is a very private boundary and sanctuary that people have no problem crossing for some reason. I'm sure you both are incredible parents as you are at acting!" commented another fan in full support of Mendes and Gosling.
Mendes and Gosling share daughters Esmeralda Amada, 5, and Amada Lee, 4.