Eva Mendes

Personal life
Mendes does not want to have children or marry. She's said, "I don't wanna have kids ... I love the little suckers; they're so cute. But I love sleep so much, and I worry about everything," adding, "I feel like the institution of marriage is a very archaic kinda thing. I don't think it fits in my world today." She was in a relationship with George Augusto from 2002 to 2010. She began dating Ryan Gosling in September 2011. She lives in Los Feliz, Los Angeles.
Mendes spent several weeks at the Cirque Lodge addiction facility in 2008 to address "some personal issues". She later said that she will never publicly disclose details of her condition because "I have to think of the pain it might bring my mother." She now attends therapy sessions which have "enriched my life. I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case." Mendes is an avid follower of transcendental meditation. She has expressed an interest in Ayn Rand, the founder of the individualist philosophy of Objectivism.