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.
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