Eva Mendes becomes emotional as she discusses her approach to parenting with Ryan Gosling
Eva Mendes has opened up in a rare interview about her approach to parenting.
The American actress, 50, who shares two children with her actor husband Ryan Gosling, became emotional and fought back tears as she spoke about how she hates that she sometimes "yells" at her kids.
The Hitch star, who has Cuban heritage, also said she's trying her best as a mother to not raise their kids by "fear".
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Eva Mendes has opened up in a rare interview about her approach to parenting. YouTube/ Dr. Shefali / Parenting & You
"What pattern do you think has been hardest to break as a mother?" Mendes was asked while appearing on Parenting & You by Dr. Shefali.
''Yelling... because I don't yell when they need me. I've never yelled, like, 'Shut up' or anything," Mendes explained.
"It's not in my mind, like, a 'mean' yell, but it doesn't matter. I yell. And it's this yelling that I find so cultural.
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"I yell. And it's this yelling that I find so cultural," she explained. Instagram
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''I'm having a hard time getting through and not yelling. The rushing and the yelling, that's the hardest thing for me."
She added that growing up, she thinks she was raised through "fear".
"My mother was definitely so loving and amazing, but it was a definite raising us by fear," she said.
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She added that growing up, she thinks she was raised through "fear". EPA/AAP
''I hope I don't look back in 20 years and go "oh shoot..." because I really don't want to raise by fear. That's the one — sorry, I get emotional over it — because it's so not fair to the kids.
''I hope that I'm not unknowingly putting some pressure on them through fear like I was raised,'' she added.
Mendes previously took a step back from Hollywood to focus on motherhood, but she recently said she might make a return to acting.
Her and her husband reportedly started dating after working together on 2012's The Place Beyond the Pines.
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