Eva Mendes is sharing some unhappy household information.
The actress teared up throughout her look on Friday’s “Today,” after co-anchor Hoda Kotb wished Mendes’ mother, Eva Perez Suarez, a Happy Mother’s Day.
“She’s not doing too well right now, so, means a lot to me,” Mendes, 48, stated.
“She’s a survivor in every way. Thank you.”
The “Hitch” star didn’t elaborate additional on her mom’s wellbeing. Page Six has reached out to her rep for remark.
Mendes – who shares two youngsters, Esmeralda, 7, and Amada, 6, with longtime accomplice Ryan Gosling – additionally spoke to Kotb about how her upbringing has influenced her parenting abilities.
“I really took it back to when I was little,” she shared. “My mom was able to be there for me at home until I was about 8 or 9. And those memories for me, that just formed who I was, those years with her.”
Over the previous few years, Mendes has been vocal about her choice to take a break from appearing to deal with elevating her and Gosling’s youngsters.
She beforehand admitted that having kids of her personal has given her a complete new appreciation for what her personal mom went by way of in elevating her and her three siblings.
“I cannot believe that by the time my mother was 24, she had three kids under the age of 4. She was in Cuba and totally alone,” Mendes stated in an editorial from magnificence website Violet Grey in 2014.
“So when it’s the wee hours of the night and I’m feeling a bit insane, I think about her and realize that I have no right to complain about anything.”
Mendes has additionally confessed prior to now that previous to falling in love with Gosling, 41, in her late 30s, she had no need to have youngsters. She instructed Women’s Health in April 2019 that having kids was the “furthest thing” from her thoughts.
“Ryan’s mom, my mom, Ryan’s and my sisters. It’s a village that helped us,” Mendes stated of her personal expertise with motherhood.
“My heart goes out to women who do this alone. I basically come from a single-parent household; although I love my dad, my mom mostly raised four of us on her own.”
