Eva Mendes doesn't regret having kids later on in life. In fact, she's fairly happy that she chose to do so. In an interview with People, the 50-year-old actress recalled how the public reacted to her being pregnant at 40, yet she couldn't imagine being a mother at any other time in life.
“When I was 40, it was a big deal for people when I was pregnant, and it wasn’t for me,” she said. “And then I was 42 and I was pregnant with my second one and people were like, ‘Oh my God, you’re going to be so tired. That’s why people have kids in their 20s.’ I was like, that’s the most sorry, asinine thing I’ve ever heard.”
"It takes more patience," she continued of parenting. "In my 20s, I shouldn’t have even been around a child. I was just foul-mouthed and smoking. I could not have raised kids in any other era of my life but now, for sure.”
After the birth of her daughters, whom she shares with husband Ryan Gosling, Eva decided to take a step back from acting, calling it the "easiest" decision she's ever made. “I was older, and I knew that my kids are going to be little once,” she explained, “Whatever I do or don’t do right now is going to affect them the rest of their life."
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"Your career comes and goes but kids, yeah, that was easy for me," she continued. "They’re just formative years. I wanted to be there for all of it.” Eva explained that she felt no pressure about stepping back from acting, and that she rather “felt it as clarity.”
