Eva Mendes may have kept her pregnancy very private, but the actress is finally sharing details about life as a new mom to Esmeralda.
During her appearance today on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Mendes opens up about her daughter, whom she and Ryan Gosling welcomed eight weeks ago. “You know we’re getting the hang of it, the sleeping thing. But yeah, I’m exhausted and it’s the best.” said the Hitch actress. “Really, I’m so incredibly tired. I thought I was tired before at times, but no. Nothing like this, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
The actress also addressed the couple’s desire to keep their daughter’s life as private as possible. “I think just early on, we decided it’s going to be very hard for [Esmerelda] to have privacy,” she explained. “And we thought this is the first opportunity we can give her to protect her and so then I had a nice calm pregnancy.”
A calm pregnancy meant Mendes and Gosling kept the pregnancy a secret until she was about 7 months along (read about it here).
And while Mendes looked amazing in a little red dress on the show, she was quick to dispel any ideas that she’s already hitting the gym. “I’m, you know, breastfeeding,” she revealed. “I’ve always heard it. It really does help to shrink your uterus back to normal size. It does! … So it’s breastfeeding is really helping and then obviously you want to be healthy for the baby because she’s eating kind of what I’m eating, so you want to make good choices.”
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