Eva Mendes kept it refreshingly real while talking about the highs and lows of parenting daughters Esmeralda, 7, and Amada, 5, with her partner of 11 years, Ryan Gosling, during a 2019 interview. “It’s so fun and beautiful and maddening,” she said. “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.’”
It was a rare glimpse into the fiercely guarded couple’s life at home. “Eva and Ryan do so much of the parenting themselves,” says an insider, “and because of that, they’re clearly under a lot of pressure.” And, according to a second insider, it’s starting to get to Mendes, 47, and Gosling, 41, who found love while…