Eva Mendes feels 'lost' now that her children are getting older: 'Who am I now?'

Now that Eva Mendes' daughters are getting older, the erstwhile movie prima is questioning her prime to step distant from acting to absorption connected her family.

During an appearance connected "The Drew Barrymore Show," Mendes shared that she ne'er felt mislaid erstwhile she entered motherhood, but present she's starting to question her identity. Mendes has been raising her 2 daughters, Esmerelda, 10, and Amada, 8, whom she shares with longtime emotion Ryan Gosling.

"I really didn't consciousness lost, I felt precise clear," she told Barrymore of becoming a mother. "But then, I felt lost. Then it was the cliché of like, ‘Who americium I now, aft the kids tin past connected their own?'"

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Eva Mendes questioned "who" she is present aft stepping distant from acting for implicit a decennary to rise her 2 daughters. (Adam Christopher /NBCUniversal/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Mendes noted that her daughters are lone 8 and ten, but they don't request her "every second" anymore.

"It's a small different, but I emotion talking to my girls astir anything. So, I consciousness precise fulfilled," Mendes said.

Earlier this week, Mendes was a impermanent connected "Good Morning America" to beforehand her children's book, "Desi, Mami, and The Never-Ending Worries," and opened up astir whether she'll ever instrumentality to the large screen.

"I don't know. If there's absorbing roles . . . I benignant of felt similar I did it, you know? I was like, ‘I conscionable worked with Ryan Gosling. He's like, the best,'" she said, referencing her 2012 flick, "The Place Beyond the Pines."

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling pictured astatine the 2024 Olympics. (Loic Venance/AFP via Getty Images)

"Then, I felt lost. Then it was the cliché of like, ‘Who americium I present aft the kids tin past connected their own?'"

"It was specified a precocious [in] my vocation to enactment with him and what we created together, that I was like, 'This is simply a bully clip to similar ’Seinfeld' it, and conscionable locomotion out.' So, who knows?"

In caller years, Mendes has shared that her mindset has changed since having children.  

Eva Mendes created the children's book, "Desi, Mami, And The Never-Ending Worries." (Gotham/Getty Images for ABA)

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"Acting is thing that I volition ever love. It's conscionable similar present that I person children, I'm benignant of extreme," Mendes told Entertainment Tonight successful 2020. "There's conscionable truthful galore things I won't do. Like, I won't bash astir of the movies I've done successful the past. A lot of things are disconnected that list. I don't privation to bash thing excessively violent. Of course, I don't privation to bash thing excessively intersexual oregon intersexual astatine all." 

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling stock 2 daughters. (Sonia Recchia/Getty Images)

Mendes did marque a tiny quality successful the children's amusement "Bluey" successful 2021, which she said "killed" successful her household.

When talking astir her publication connected "Good Morning America," she noted that penning it was really beneficial to her parenting. 

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"Desi has these never-ending worries — I person them arsenic well," Mendes admitted of the book's main character. "And she tries to enactment with her encephalon to…make definite it's not being a bully to her, by sending each these antagonistic thoughts her way, and that it's being similar a BFF to her."

Eva Mendes antecedently said that having children made her "extreme." (Tim Hunter / Newspix/Aliah Anderson/Getty Images)

Mendes revealed that her kids were fans of her latest venture. "They emotion it. I deliberation they emotion it. They're precise harsh critics though," she shared, earlier telling a communicative she insisted was real, and not lone for television.

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"My small girl, who conscionable turned 10, was having a hard time, and I curse to you, I locomotion into her room, she's speechmaking the book. . . . That truly got to me," she said.

Fox News Digital's Caroline Thayer contributed to this report.