“I do exactly what I want.” In the video, Eva Mendes explains her choice to have children after 40 years

“I don’t submit to society’s pressure. I do exactly what I want.” These words are the words of Eva Mendes. At the age of 50, the actress, who is usually not very talkative when it comes to discussing her personal life, spoke to an American magazine. People on her choice to become a mother, but especially on the timing of this motherhood.

“It was a big deal for people that I was pregnant at 40, but it wasn’t a story for me,” she explains. “At the age of 42, I got pregnant with my second child, and everyone told me: “Oh my god, you must be so tired. It is not for nothing that people have children between the ages of 20 and 30.” “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” he says. And for good reason, these late pregnancies are Ryan Gosling’s alleged and deliberate choice of partner. “I shouldn’t have had a child in my care when I was in my twenties. I talked like a cart, I smoked,” he recalls, assuring that “at any other time in his life, he could not have raised children.”

Increasing patience

Today, the woman who will publish her first children’s book this fall sees only advantages in becoming a mother after 40. In addition to growing patience, he believes he has had the maturity to make choices that would have seemed unthinkable a few years ago. These include putting her acting career on hold to care for Esmeralda Amada (age 9) and Amada Lee (age 8), born from her union with Ryan Gosling. “I’m so grateful for the opportunity to stay at home. I think it’s because I’m older,” he admits. And the actress gave a negative answer to the question that she felt some kind of pressure that forced her to make this choice. “This is the easiest decision I have ever made. A career is something that fluctuates. My children will only be small once. Besides, everything I do or don’t do from now on will affect them for the rest of their lives.”