Eva Mendes clarifies 'non-verbal' parenting agreement with Ryan Gosling

Eva Mendes has clarified the parenting agreement she has with husband Ryan Gosling.

The Hitch actress, 50, shares daughters Esmeralda, nine, and Amada, seven, with the Barbie actor, 43, and back in March said in a TV interview that it was a “no-brainer” that she would take a step back from Hollywood while Gosling continued to pursue his acting career.

“It was almost just like a non-verbal agreement that it was like: ‘OK, he’s going to work and I’m going to work. I’m just going to work here,’ Mendes said while appearing on US TV show Today.

“He went and he did his job. He just happens to be really good at his job. And he did it and he came home.”

Mendes now claims that her words got “taken out of context” and she wanted to set the record straight in a new interview with Glamour.

She insisted that it wasn’t a “non-verbal agreement” that led her to take on the bulk of parenting and seek other business opportunities, but that they as a couple had several deep conversations about balancing both their professional and family lives.

“For me… recently in an interview I said it was almost like non-verbal agreement Ryan and I had [to step back from acting]. That got… not twisted, but taken out of context because I meant it was almost a no-brainer. But there was actually obviously a lot of thought and conversation - especially on my end - of what I wanted to do with my life,” she told the publication.

“It was very clear to me that I didn’t want to be away from the kids. Acting takes you on location for months. But I still wanted to work. So I had to get creative about what that work was going to be.”

Since leaving Hollywood behind, Mendes has gone on to pursue other business ventures, including co-owning the women-founded sponge brand, Skura Style.

She is also set to launch her debut children’s book later this year, which Gosling sweetly showed support for by wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the book’s title, Desi, Mami, and the Never-Ending Worries, while promoting his latest film The Fall Guy co-starring Emily Blunt.