Eva Mendes Says She And Ryan Gosling Have A 'Nonverbal Agreement' About Their Parenting

Eva Mendes is more than happy about her unspoken agreement with Ryan Gosling .

The Hitch star had a thriving acting career until she met Gosling while filming The Place Beyond the Pines (2012). She then stopped acting to spend more time with their children, Esmeralda Amada, 9, and Amada Lee, 7, but is adamant that she didnt mind and wanted to.

It was like a no-brainer, she said Tuesday in a clip from her upcoming Today show interview . Im so lucky, and I was like, if I could have this time with my children and I still work, I just didnt act, because acting takes you on location. It takes you away.

It was almost just like a nonverbal agreement that it was like, OK, hes [Gosling] going to work and Im going to work. Im just going to work here, Mendes continued about her modeling work and multiple fashion and cosmetics lines.

Mendes landed her big break after starring opposite Denzel Washington in Training Day (2001). Her career skyrocketed with rom-coms such as Hitch and crime dramas such as We Own the Night, but slowed after she met Gosling as his love interest in Pines.

Ive never experienced anything like that, Mendes said in the interview. The way he works, his commitment to his craft, how he wants to make everything as best as it can be and that means making his co-stars as best as they can be.

Unfortunately or fortunately theres only one Ryan, so I pretty much stopped acting after that.

The couple make notable efforts to protect their privacy , while their arrangement allows for at least one parent to be home with the kids at any given time. Mendes, meanwhile, publicly supports Gosling through the ups and downs of his career while juggling her own.

Mendes not only trounced Barbie haters in his defense, but she brought their kids to rehearsals for his performance at the Oscars . She championed it on social media afterward : You took Ken all the way to the Oscars, RG. Now come home, we need to put the kids to bed.

Mendes, who has her own makeup brand and self-titled fashion line , seems to have Goslings full support, however and thanked him for holding down the fort at home after his Oscars performance before jetting off to Italy for a Dolce & Gabbana modeling gig.

Thats what its about, she said. You go, you do your job the best you can and then you come home.