Eva Mendes made it clear she does not fear aging after turning 50 in March.
Eva Mendes Says She's 'Totally Fine' With Turning 50: 'It’s Just That Number Sounds Crazy'
Eva Mendes is embracing the latter years of her life.
After turning 50 in March, the Hitch actress admitted she's made peace with the aging process and is completely content with where she is.
Eva Mendes is embracing being in her fifties.
"It was totally fine. It’s just that number sounds crazy,” she explained in a recent interview. "I feel like a girl inside and I’m like, 'Oh my God, I’m not a girl anymore.'"
Mendes, who shares two daughters with her partner, Ryan Gosling, also reflected on how she's tried to curb looking older. "I'm not afraid to try things that are safe, because most of these little treatments, let's say, are reversible," she said. "If you get Botox, it goes away if you don't like it. There have been times where I've regretted something … and then you just wait it out."
Eva Mendes admitted she's 'regretted' some of the beauty treatments she's done in the past.
The mother-of-two's newfound confidence has come a long way over the years. "Just came across this picture from a movie that was almost 20 years ago. I remember seeing this photo back then and thinking my face looked 'weird' and that my bone structure was odd ...yadda yadda," Mendes wrote in a 2021 post shared to Instagram. "You know all those insecurities that a 26 year old can have."
"Meanwhile 20 years later and now I wish I still had that 'weird' face and odd 'bone structure' 😩," she added. "What's my point? I'm not sure. Maybe it’s if you hate a photo of yourself wait 20 years then you’ll love it."
Eva Mendes said she wasn't as confident in her looks when she was younger.
Mendes accepting herself has been vital as she raises her little girls. "I think everything starts in the home — everything. So hopefully Ryan and I are doing the work by just loving them, completely loving them, and doing most of that work for them so that they grow up feeling like they're enough," she said in a 2022 interview.
"That's the one thing that's really important to me. Because once they feel like they're enough, no matter what they do, no matter what they end up doing, that will feed into every area of your life," she added. "Especially into how attractive you feel, or any of that stuff. So besides that, I am trying to educate them about what we eat and what we put into our bodies, and how that manifests itself physically, whether it's how we look or how we feel. But that's a big one that I, coming from parents of immigrants, had no idea about really, until not that long ago."
Eva Mendes has done her best to make her daughters feel like they are 'enough.'
The Times UK conducted the interview with Mendes.