Just before Christmas, The Daily Mail & OK! Magazine had sources claiming that Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling were close to being over. Many of you thought it sounded like Eva had some postpartum depression, and some people thought the rumors of a breakup made total sense because… well, Ryan and Eva have always been such a strange couple. Well, here’s some happy news, I guess: Ryan and Eva spent Christmas together, with their daughter Esmeralda, plus their extended families. Even though Eva and Ryan are SUPER PRIVATE, sources totally snitched to E! News:
Despite recent reports to the contrary, Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling are doing just fine. A source close to the good-looking duo tells E! News that they “think the tabloid reports about trouble are ridiculous” and that “they just roll their eyes, they honestly don’t care.”
In fact, the new parents to baby Esmeralda spent “a wonderful Christmas together with both her family and his.”
An insider also shares that the actors are content with the dynamic of their new family of three, and aren’t in any rush to tie the knot in the near future.
“Neither felt the need to get married, it’s just not a huge priority for either of them. They know what they have.”
So how exactly did the rumors about the two having trouble in paradise get started? Well, for one thing, Gosling had been filming nonstop in Atlanta in early December, and his leading lady has yet to be seen on set visiting. But there’s a simple explanation for all that, our source explains.
“Ryan and Eva are super-super-private. The last thing they’d do is bring a baby, who’s barely 3 months old, to a film set teeming with paparazzi. Ryan specifically wanted it like this—with paps following him in Atlanta, they’re mostly leaving Eva and the baby alone.
In the meantime, Eva texted pictures and videos of her and the baby to him, “which he loves.”
Back in L.A., while Gosling was hard at work on his upcoming film project, mother and daughter were still adjusting to home life.
“The baby is still not sleeping through the night yet so [Eva’s] tired. She’s also still getting used to breastfeeding—it’s not easy. But she’s happily in nesting mode.”
It sounds like Eva is still adjusting and she wants to just spend some time bonding with the baby. Which is totally normal and fine, although I think it’s a little bit weird that Ryan was scheduled to shoot a movie just weeks after his baby was born. Do you buy the “super-super-private” explanation? I have mixed feelings about that. Yes, Eva and Ryan really did manage to be super-private about the pregnancy. But there were two years of weird photo-ops by Eva before the pregnancy. For a while there, she was getting pap’d two or three times a week, always in cute outfits, so thirsty for us to acknowledge her relationship with Ryan. So… yeah. Mixed feelings about the “privacy” argument.
PS… here’s another bad piece of news for all of you Gosling-loonies: his directorial debut, Lost River, isn’t even going to get a theatrical release. It’s going straight-to-DVD after it was laughed out of Cannes in May. Just as well. It sounded horrible and pretentious.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Seems logical to me. Mendes liked photo-ops and then she got pregnant and went away so she’s been consistent in protecting the child.
Yep, don’t know why it is so difficult to acknowledge that maybe her priorities changed.
Yup it’s pretty obvious that they don’t want their kid in the spotlight.
It sounds like (from what Eva herself has said) she got pregnant and basically stayed home for 40 weeks. I can understand a desire for privacy, but she has just gotten flat out weird. I know he has some ardent fans, but do people hugely care about these two that she’s full on hiding her child?
I’m always on board with a conspiracy but I actually kind of buy this.
I didn’t breast feed but shouldn’t she have it down by now? Wouldn’t this kid be really hungry if she couldn’t eat right all this time
Not necessarily. People can have latch issues for an entire year.
Breastfeeding has ups and downs. Supply regulating, cluster feeding, latch issues. It’s hard to be away from your baby during the first few months.
She also may be getting out but away from paparazzi. She can go to plenty of places away from L.A. and lay low. Just cause we don’t see it doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. They’re protecting their child. Lots of Hollywood people complain about photographers but others manage to live nearly normal lives
Conscious coupling… unconscious uncoupling… conscious recoupling and on and on…
I don’t get what’s up with his career — he takes the most bizarre parts that seem to go nowhere, lately.
I think the constant pap photos of Eva in cute clothes coincided with her clothing line. I can’t remember the store, but it’s a ‘mall store.’
Maybe
I’ve been kind of fascinated reading about his movie going straight to video on other websites (whoops I meant limited theatrical, NY and LA). He has some… let’s say “avid”…fans defending him in the comments. I saw someone reference the Shawshank Redemption for how this would one day be a classic. It’s hilarious! He made a crap movie with no stars. It happens. He’ll be fine, just maybe not a director. Where does this insane loyalty come from? The Notebook?
The weird part is, its not like they’re particularly loyal when it comes to seeing his movies. So basically they just like him when they can pretend he’s their imaginary boyfriend?
I love how “they just roll their eyes. They truly don’t care.”
Right. That’s why they planted this story-because they don’t care at all…
Someone’s PR person did indeed plant this, probably Mendes’s. Gosling has nothing to gain by this item, other than maybe not seeming like an uncaring d***. I think HE really doesn’t care about public perception at all, though – Mendes, not so much. She’s aging, he didn’t marry her, she hid the pregnancy – if anything, this item seems much more like damage control from her, not him – just like that interview she did not long ago. He hasn’t said jack about their kid.
Literally, super super literally private. Literally.
Am I alone in thinking Eva didn’t want to be seen pregnant because she is committed to her turban wearing vamp image. I don’t think it’s a privacy issue, I think it’s an ego issue.
She is such a beautiful woman but good lord she seems so unpleasant whenever she speaks.
I was under the impression that you shouldn’t be travelling with babies for the first few months, at least not on airplanes, because they haven’t had all their vaccinations, etc. I’m not a mother, so I don’t know. But it seems perfectly reasonable to not want to subject a newborn to the rigors of travel.
I use to be a major Gosling-loonie. Especially after watching Blue Valentine back in 2010. I am happy to report that I’m so off the Gosling train that I have no idea which direction it’s even headed. I am firmly on the Charlie Hunnam train now. In fact, I’m the m-fking conductor! Not to pit two men against each other but I totally will — Hot Hunnam >>>>>>>>>>> Gosling.
Mendes, you can have him. I only wish that he gets back into his 2010-2011 career drive — loved his choices back then: Blue Valentine, Drive, even Ides of March.
Haha, I’m exactly the same. Still like Ryan, but he became too mainstream and at times corny. Now I’m on the Charlie bandwagon, I absolutely love him.
Umm…teeming with paps? Here in Atlanta? Not quite. Yeah, there have been pictures of him on set, but there are no paps in Atlanta.