Eva Mendes, 50, opens up about 'regrettable' Botox and other cosmetic procedures

Eva Mendes recently opened up astir embracing her sexiness astatine 50 and her views connected cosmetic treatments to support her youthful glow.

The Cuban-American beauty, looking conscionable arsenic radiant arsenic she did successful her past film, 2015's Lost River directed by her hubby Ryan Gosling, revealed that she is unfastened to quality procedures, arsenic agelong arsenic they connection reversible results.

'I'm not acrophobic to effort things that are safe, due to the fact that astir of these small treatments, let's say, are reversible,' she shared successful a caller interrogation with The Times.

Seemingly revealing that she has experimented with Botox and different impermanent cosmetic treatments, she said: 'If you get Botox, it goes distant if you don't similar it. There person been times wherever I've regretted something… and past you conscionable hold it out.'

The candid speech comes aft the star, who stepped backmost from Hollywood pursuing the commencement of her archetypal kid with Gosling successful 2014, antecedently addressed critics who accused her of denying integrative country rumors.

Mendes took to societal media successful 2021, saying she 'wanted to wide up' a fewer things aft her effect to a remark pb to fans claiming she 'denied integrative country accusations.'

'Never "denied integrative surgery,"' she wrote. 'All I did was reply to a circumstantial remark connected SM,' she continued. 'Would ne'er contradict that stuff. I'm each for it. All. For. It.'

At the time, she besides shared photos of herself undergoing a process called Mono-threading, which involves the insertion of needled threads successful assorted points to assistance lifting and tightening of the skin.

In her The Times interview, the prima besides admitted Gosling makes her consciousness 'real f****** sexy'.

She has been engulfed successful a romance with the Hollywood star, 43, since 2011 and reportedly wed successful a concealed ceremonial successful 2016.

Eva credited Ryan of ever making her consciousness bully astir herself arsenic she admitted she 'never considers herself beautiful'.

But acknowledgment to Barbie prima Ryan, Eva said feels connected apical of the satellite erstwhile helium 'gives her a look'.

She told The Times: 'I consciousness truly f***ing sexy astatine times. The mode my antheral looks astatine maine is conscionable … astatine times I’m like, "oh my God". 

'That mightiness not beryllium good with people, but truthful overmuch of however I consciousness is simply a reflection of what he’s giving me.

'There’s truthful galore things that tin marque maine consciousness sexy and I’d accidental that I consciousness much sexy than not. I conjecture due to the fact that I’ve ne'er considered myself beautiful, but I’ve ever felt precise sexy.'

The A-lister shares daughters Esmeralda, 10, and Amada, eight, with Ryan. 

Mendes’s large hits arsenic an histrion included Training Day (2001, successful her breakthrough relation playing Denzel Washington’s mistress), Hitch (2005) and The Other Guys (2010), earlier she starred other Gosling successful The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). 

In 2014, the aforesaid twelvemonth she had her archetypal child, she walked distant from Hollywood.

'I was ne'er successful emotion with acting. I don’t mean this successful a self-deprecating way, but I wasn’t a large actress,' she told the outlet.

'I had my moments erstwhile I worked with truly large people,' she said, adding that she is proudest of the 2 films connected which she worked with Gosling, Lost River and 2012's The Place Beyond the Pines.

The histrion and parent of 2 opens up astir the couple's 2 daughters, their parenting style, and 1 of the household rules that wouldn't spell implicit good with galore kids.

It turns retired the personage duo doesn't let their children, who are home-schooled, to usage smartphones oregon societal media astatine their home.

Mendes and Gosling welcomed their archetypal daughter, Esmeralda, present 10, successful September 2014, and their 2nd daughter, Amada, eight, successful April 2016. 

'Putting my kid connected the net and being like, "Oh, hunt something," that to maine is equivalent to telling her, "Oh, conscionable spell down the thoroughfare successful the mediate of the night. You'll beryllium fine,"' Mendes, 50, revealed. 

'I cognize that sounds extreme, but that's what I feel,' the histrion added. 

Mendes (born Eva de la Caridad Méndez) would besides stock astir however she and her spouse effort to educate their kids connected their privileged life, compared to astir radical successful the world, by telling them stories of however they grew up with small money.

'I explicate to them what I didn't have, what Ryan didn't person erstwhile helium was little, however hard we had to fight, the acheronian days of being paycheck to paycheck, and this and that, but they'll ne'er truly cognize unless they acquisition that,' the Miami, Florida autochthonal explained. 

After going done bouts of anxiousness successful her lifetime, Mendes tries to instill self-esteem into their lives by giving them tasks to bash astir the location to physique their confidence.

'I inactive person each this anxiousness and I spot myself passing it connected to my children,' Mendes said, earlier admitting she herself was a 'good kid' increasing up successful Miami, which she credits her precocious brother.

'He'd say, "If I ever spot you retired determination with a feline oregon smoking, I'll f**king footwear his ass and instrumentality you to schoolhouse each day,"' she recalled. 'By sheer fearfulness I was a bully kid.' 

During the interview, the retired histrion credited Gosling with making her consciousness 'sexy' successful her 50s.

'I consciousness truly f**king sexy astatine times,' she gushed. 'The mode my antheral looks astatine maine is conscionable … astatine times I'm like, ohio my God. That mightiness not beryllium good with people, but truthful overmuch of however I consciousness is simply a reflection of what he's giving me.'

The blistery and dense mates archetypal met successful August 2011 aft they some signed connected to prima successful the epic transgression play The Place Beyond The Pines.

In the film, the 2 actors played emotion interests Romina Gutierrez, who yet hooks up with different man, and Luke Glanton, a motorcycle stunt rider who supports his family, which includes their young son, done a beingness of crime.

The caller mates wasted small clip and started dating during the sprout of the film.

After playing a unreal household with Mendes in The Place Beyond The Pines, Gosling realized helium wanted to commencement a household of his ain with the actress.  

'I wasn't reasoning astir kids earlier I met her, but aft I met Eva, I realized that I conscionable didn't privation to person kids without her,' the longtime Hollywood starring antheral told GQ in 2023, earlier adding. 'There were moments on The Place Beyond The Pines wherever we were pretending to beryllium a family, and I didn't truly privation it to beryllium unreal anymore.' 

The mates went nationalist with their narration erstwhile they went to Disneyland together, and were seen holding hands and walking closely. 

Eventually, The mates made their reddish carpet debut astatine the Toronto International Film Festival to beforehand The Place Beyond The Pines successful September 2012.

Mendes went connected to benignant of discontinue from acting to absorption connected their household successful 2014, and to beryllium capable to bash different ventures specified arsenic penning her caller debut representation publication Desi, Mami, And The Never-Ending Worries, which dropped September 17, and includes the histrion doing the audio mentation of the publication successful her ain voice.

The communicative focuses connected a small miss facing endless scary worries, according to Macmillan Publishers.'Every nighttime begins with the aforesaid refrain: 'MAMI! THERE’S A MONSTER UNDER MY BED!' Desi has truthful galore scary thoughts!

Is her encephalon a monster?! Of people it's not a existent monster, and Mami assures Desi of this. Sometimes we conscionable person scary worries moving done our minds. And similar thing successful life, you conscionable request to enactment to marque things better.