Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes are notoriously private about their relationship. The pair started dating in 2011 after co-starring in The Place Beyond the Pines, but since then, they've been pretty tight-lipped about their love life. Though, with a little digging, you can find all sorts of adorable breadcrumbs they've left along the way. They may not be super public (and rarely post pics together), but their love for each other is seriously undeniable. Read up on it here, starting from the beginning.
September 2011
After first meeting on the set of The Place Beyond the Pines, which was filmed in Schenectady, New York, Ryan and Eva are spotted on a date at the Happiest Place on Earth™️: Disneyland. According to Us Weekly, there was plenty of PDA and Eva was even "skipping around like a little girl." I mean, wouldn't you, if you were on a date with Ryan Gosling? No word on whether or not Ryan busted out some classic Mickey Mouse Club dance moves or told Eva about his hometown of Cornwall, Ontario.
November 2011
Ryan and Eva spend Thanksgiving in Paris, where they are spotted holding hands at the iconic Père Lachaise Cemetery. Nothing says romance quite like tombstones, amirite?
December 2011
Ryan and Eva appear in their second project together: Funny or Die's “Drunk History Christmas.” And yes, that’s them in bed together:
February 2012
In an interview with Marie Claire, Eva calls Ryan “your dream costar,” adding, “I have never felt so creatively satisfied on a film. He’s amazing.” When pushed for more details about her new romance, Eva says, “Stop, just stop. I’m not gonna budge. I feel uncomfortable talking about it. It’s too personal.”
May 2012
After getting hit with their first major breakup rumor, Ryan and Eva are spotted holding hands in New York City.
In the same month, Eva appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and sort of talks about Ryan in a conversation that’s onesie-heavy and filled with giggles. Just watch.
June 2012
Ryan and Eva head up north to attend his mother Donna’s graduation from Brock University in Toronto. According to the Niagara Advance, Ryan told reporters, “This is my mom’s day,” but fellow graduates and audience members shared these observations on Twitter anyway.
September 2012
Ryan and Eva hit the red carpet together for the first time (with their castmates) for the premiere of The Place Beyond the Pines at the Toronto International Film Festival.
March 2013
Ryan and Eva step out in public again for The Place Beyond the Pines premiere in NYC.
September 2013
When asked about Ryan in an interview with The Edit, Eva apparently shuts the whole thing down. “I'm sorry. I'm shutting down. I'm such a weirdo. I literally lose my ability to speak—and you were doing so well.”
July 2014
People reports that Eva is pregnant with the couple’s first child. According to one source, things “with Ryan are different” and Eva has “finally found the person she really wants to be with.”
September 2014
Eva gives birth to a daughter, Esmeralda Amada Gosling, in Santa Monica, according to People. A source claiming to be a friend of Eva’s says, “She’s absolutely in heaven being a mom. She’s never been happier.”
November 2014
In a rare interview with Violet Grey, Eva opens up about motherhood: “I’m completely exhausted. I thought my wild nights were over but these are some of the wildest nights I've ever had.” She also talks about taking care of her child without any professional help. “I’m doing it without a nanny for now but I’m open to the idea of having a nanny in the future. Esmeralda has two amazing grandmothers and incredible aunties who come over and really help me.”
And when it comes to staying out of the spotlight during most of her pregnancy, Eva says she did it for her daughter. “Whether we like it or not, privacy is going to be very difficult for Esmeralda. I think it’s unfair but that’s our reality. So Ryan and I decided early on to give her as much privacy as we could. And my pregnancy was the first opportunity to give her that. It’s such an intimate time for the mother, too. I know that it seems all very innocuous when you’re flipping through a tabloid at the doctor’s office or see a photo of a pregnant lady online, but I find the media’s ‘bump watch’ obsession to be both intrusive and stressful. So I made a decision to eject myself from it completely. I was like, ‘Annnnd I’m out.’” Super fair decision!
December 2014
Eva makes her first post-baby TV appearance on Ellen. “I’m so incredibly tired,” she says on the episode. “I thought I was tired before at times, but no. Nothing like this. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.” She also opens up about how breastfeeding had helped with her slimmer figure. “I've always heard it. It really does help to shrink your uterus back to normal size. It does! I know it's a really weird thing to say, but it does. It's the best. So breastfeeding is really helping and then obviously you want to be healthy for the baby because she’s eating kind of what I'm eating, so you want to make good choices.”
March 2015
Eva graces the April 2015 cover of Women’s Health some six months after giving birth. “I’m actually enjoying the sleepless nights because it’s bonding with my little girl.” She adds that she hasn’t “earned the right” to give out mom advice, though. “I want to respect all the moms out there. They’re just going to be like, ‘You know what? You’re a few months in. Just shut up.’”
She later tells Extra that sweatpants are basically banned from her home, which many fans took to be the secret to keeping Ryan happy. “No. You can’t do sweatpants. No, ladies. Number one cause of divorce in America.”
Ryan responds to the sweatpants comment on Twitter, pointing out that it was “obviously” a joke.
To prove she really wears sweatpants at home, Eva shares a photo of them on Instagram (which has since been deleted!).
April 2015
Ryan’s directorial debut, Lost River, starring Eva, Saoirse Ronan, Matt Smith, and Christina Hendricks, opens in theaters.
December 2015
Speaking to Hello! Magazine, Ryan says he’s looking forward to the holidays with his family. “This will be our first Christmas where [Esmeralda is] sort of taking it all in, so that’s exciting.” He also gushes about being with his one true love, Eva. “I know that I’m with the person I’m supposed to be with,” he tells the magazine. Oh, and the actor *also* says that the one quality he looks for in a woman is “that she’s Eva Mendes. There’s nothing else I’m looking for.” BRB swooning.
May 2016
TMZ reports that Eva gave birth to the couple’s second child, a girl named Amada Lee Gosling, on April 29 in Santa Monica, California, according to a birth certificate obtained by the site. News of her pregnancy was only reported by various outlets just weeks before.
September 2016
A rep for the couple denies that Ryan and Eva are married following Us Weekly's report that the couple tied the knot “among a small group of family and friends” earlier in the year.
January 2017
Ryan thanks Eva, his “sweetheart,” in his Golden Globes acceptance speech for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical for his performance in La La Land. “I’d like to thank one person properly,” he gushes. “When I was singing and dancing and playing piano and wanting the best experiences, my lady was raising our daughter, pregnant with our second, and trying to help her brother fight his battle with cancer. If she hadn’t taken all of that on so I could have this experience, it’d surely be someone else up here.” Ryan also dedicates the award to Eva’s brother Juan Carlos Mendez, who died of throat cancer in 2016.
August 2017
Eva and Ryan are spotted back where it all began…at Disneyland. According to photos obtained by TMZ, the couple enjoyed a rare date night and stepped out in baseball caps to ride Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, It’s a Small World, and Haunted Mansion.
September 2017
Eva and Ryan hold hands after the Saturday Night Live after-party in NYC. This is among the rare times the couple has been photographed together in public.
October 2017
During an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote Blade Runner 2049, Ryan shares a cute story about his daughter Amada’s recent trip—her first—to NYC. “I brought her to the window in the morning and I said, ‘Sweetheart, welcome to New York.’ Two cars went ‘smash’ and smoke started pouring out…these two guys got out and I won’t repeat the hand gestures for you but I quickly covered her eyes and ran away from the window.”
A few days later, Ryan appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote the film. After sharing sweet memories of his dog George, who died last December (R.I.P. George Gosling), Ryan briefly spoke about all the languages his kids have been learning at home. “They speak Spanish…it’s Spanglish right now. My oldest is 3, my youngest is one-and-a-half. She’s not speaking Spanish yet.” Interestingly enough, when it was time to talk about Eva, Ryan started his sentence with “There’s a fun saying that my...” before switching to “That Eva’s family says.” That your what, Ryan?!
June 2018
Ryan appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to talk about his new film, First Man. When asked by Jimmy if he had been keeping up with the NBA basketball games, Ryan joked, “I have a two-year-old and a three-and-a-half-year-old, so, let’s be honest, I’m not watching anything that doesn’t have a talking tiger in it.”
He also shared a story about how Eva figured out he had a concussion from training for the movie.
“They built this multi-axis trainer, which is something NASA designed just to help the astronauts prepare for the worst-case scenarios in space. But it’s this thing that kind of sends you ass over teakettle. They would only do it for 20 minutes at a time or something, but in the movie, because we had to get a lot of shots, I was in it for like six to eight hours.”
After being banged around for hours at a time, Ryan started to say some pretty weird shit.
“I knew something was wrong when I went home one night and I called Eva, and I was just hellbent on this idea that there were people in doughnut stores all around the world that were trying to charm their way into getting free doughnuts. She was so patient and listening. She was like, 'I think you might have brain damage. I think you should go to the hospital.'”
Turns out she was right—he found out he had a minor concussion!
September 2018
Eva chats with E! News and gushes about life with Ryan and her kiddos.
“I'm just so obsessed with my kids that I don't want to leave them,” Eva says when asked whether she would get back into acting. “They're just still so little.”
But she admits that she's still figuring out the whole 'motherhood' thing.
“I don't feel like I have it balanced at all. I kind of have been figuring it out as I'm going along, and it's just important to have a support system,” she explains. “I have my family, I have Ryan's family, and that's just like, invaluable to have family around supporting you.”
February 2019
Photos of Ryan and Eva together are few and far between, but the paparazzi manage to snap some pics of the two out with their daughters on Valentine's Day. Esmeralda is dressed very on-theme with a red checkered jacket, red skirt, red slippers and red-hearted tights while she helps her dad carry bouquets of flowers, and Eva holds Amada in her arms as they walk through the rainy streets of LA.
October 4, 2020
Eva makes a rare comment about Ryan in a since-deleted Instagram post. In response to a follower who wrote, “You need to tell Ryan to get you out more,” she replied, “No thank you, I'm good. Rather be home with my man than anywhere else in the world.”
June 15, 2022
Eva reacts to the viral photo of Ryan in Barbie and is just as obsessed as the rest of us:
November 15, 2022
Eva hints that she and Ryan are married by sharing her “de Gosling” tattoo with fans:
November 17, 2022
Eva is asked about marriage rumors by Australia’s Kyle and Jackie O Show, and says, “Who says we weren’t already? I like to keep it all mysterious. I’m a very mysterious woman.”
She also chats about the tattoo, saying, “I do have a tattoo. It’s just a press on…no, it’s not a press on. But I got it years ago. I posted a picture and I’ve gotten a lot of funny questions.”
November 20, 2022
Eva refers to Ryan as her husband! Speaking on Australia's Today (per the Daily Mail), she says, “Everyone is so welcoming here and my husband Ryan is here, and we are having the best time.”
Whelp, guess that's one mystery solved!
April 4, 2023
Eva celebrates the 10 years since she and Ryan played Romina and Luke on The Place Beyond the Pines. “Feels like lifetimes ago,” the actor writes on her Instagram alongside some 🥺 behind-the-scenes pics from the 2012 film.
April 6, 2023
Per People, Eva reveals why she and Ryan don't take red carpet photos together with a few Instagram comments.
“We don't do those things together,” the actor writes in response to a comment on the app. She adds that she's “only comfortable” reposting photos that have already hit the web and clarifies that she's “not comfortable” exposing her “very private life" with Ryan.
“I'm still dying to do another movie with him though…♥️,” she notes.
May 21, 2023
In an interview with GQ, Ryan opens up about the aforementioned movie and muses, “I wasn’t thinking about kids before I met her, but after I met Eva, I realized that I just didn’t want to have kids without her.”
“And there were moments on The Place Beyond the Pines where we were pretending to be a family, and I didn’t really want it to be pretend anymore. I realized that this would be a life I would be really lucky to have,” he adds.
July 6, 2023
Eva shares a sweet tribute to Ryan praising his performance in the Barbie movie with the caption, “Mi Hombre. Mi Vida [My man. My life]…To say he’s the greatest actor I’ve ever worked with is an understatement. Gracias to the brilliant & beautiful Greta Gerwig @rollingstone.”
July 9, 2023
Ryan shows up to the premiere of Barbie with an “E” around his neck in the Barbie font.
I'm not crying, you are!
July 31, 2023
Ryan and Eva take a break from all the Barbie-related mania for a family vacation, according to sources who speak with People. Allegedly, the couple was spotted glamping with their two daughters, Esmeralda Amada, 8, and Amada Lee, 7, at the El Capitan Canyon wilderness resort just north of Santa Barbara.
“They went to the beach with the kids and also walked a mile up the road to play with baby goats and alpacas,” the source dishes. Obsessed with these two!
December 20, 2023
Eva shows love for Ryan and his holiday rendition of his Barbie hit, “I'm Just Ken” on Instagram. “So grateful to @iammarkronson for getting my man to make more music. Dead Man’s Bones is my favorite band ….when I first heard Ryan sing, MY HEART EXPLODED. More Ryan & Ronson musica por favor! ♥️,” Eva pens, referencing Ryan's alternative music duo with Zach Shields.
January 7, 2024
Ryan attends the Golden Globes sans Eva, per her previous comments that they “don't do these things together.”
January 13, 2024
Ryan accepts the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. He gives Eva and his kids a sweet shoutout during his speech, saying, “Most importantly, I got to meet the girl of my dreams, Eva Mendes, and have two dream children. I dreamed of one day making movies, and now, movies have made my life a dream.” Excuse me while I 🤧🤧🤧.
January 24, 2024
Eva hops on Instagram and defends Ryan's Ken performance in Barbie amid his Oscar nomination.
“So proud of my man,” she writes along with some receipts. “So much hate when he took on this role. So many people trying to shame him for doing it. Despite all the #Notmyken ridicule and articles written about him, he created this completely original, hilarious, heartbreaking, now iconic character and took it all the way to Oscars. So beyond proud to be this Ken’s Barbie 💕.”
February 28, 2024
Insiders give some rare intel about Ryan and Eva's relationship dynamic to Us Weekly ahead of the Oscars. The first source reveals that “They are trying to keep their daughters’ lives as normal as possible and don’t want them growing up in Hollywood.” When it comes to his children, the source says Ryan “reads to the kids, takes them to games, puts them to sleep, cooks their dinners—everything, really. He devotes almost all his time to his family. He enjoys taking care of the girls and spoiling Eva, too.”
“Ryan always encourages Eva to pursue the projects she believes in and gladly steps up to the plate to take care of the kids whenever she needs,” a second source adds. “Ryan loves to cook for Eva, and once the kids are asleep, they'll enjoy one of their favorite shows together.” As for their date nights? The insider dishes that they “prefer hikes and trips to the beach over fancy restaurants or a big party.”
March 7, 2024
Eva shows off her “de gosling” tattoo and a pair of earrings/shoes on Instagram. Just a casual reminder that she's married to Ken!
March 26, 2024
Eva opens up about her and Ryan's work/life balance on the Today Show, saying “I still worked, I just didn’t act because acting takes you on locations, it takes you away. It was almost just like a non-verbal agreement that it was like, 'Ok, he’s going to work and I’m going to work, I’m just going to work here.'”
April 11, 2024
Eva's brother, Carlo, gushes about Ryan to E! News, saying “Ryan is an awesome, funny, down-to-earth guy. I cannot say enough about him, and I'm really learning a lot from him. Just an amazing guy.”
Carlo also adds that Ryan “immediately fit in” upon meeting the family and that “He loves the whole Latin lifestyle, the salsa, the Spanish, the Cuban—he loves all that stuff. So, he fit in like a glove.”
April 16, 2024
Ryan hosted SNL, where he pays homage to Eva via this hilarious sketch where he adopts a Cuban accent. Eva praised his performance, writing, "Coño! My Cuban Papi made this Cuban Mami so happy with this!! Years of hanging out with my Dad paid off."
April 22, 2024
Eva celebrated her milestone 50th birthday back in March, and a source spills to People that it was an “amazing” celebration, thanks in part to Ryan.
“She seemed very comfortable turning 50. Ryan constantly tells her she’s beautiful. He made her birthday very special,” muses the insider about the couple's 'ship.
“Eva and Ryan are truly such a happy couple. They’re very supportive of each other’s passions. They’re also grateful for the financial freedom their work gives them, and they’re all about family time. They’re great at balancing everything,” they add.
April 29, 2024
Ryan wears a T-shirt with Eva's children's book title on it while promoting his film, The Fall Guy.
Eva responded to the gesture on Instagram, writing, "Feeling the love from my Cuban Papi! And loving that beautiful Mami -Emily Blunt- so mucho! Love all around ! ❤️"
May 1, 2024
In conversation with People for their Beautiful Issue, Eva gushed about Ryan and their support for one another. When asked how they show up for each other, she responded, "I'm not going to tell you that but in all the ways I need to be supported. He's got me in all the ways."
Eva then opened up about having children and putting her acting career on pause. "It was the easiest decision I've ever made," she revealed. "I was older and I knew that my kids are going to be little once, and whatever I do or don't do right now is going to affect them the rest of their life."
"Your career comes and goes but kids, yeah, that was easy for me," she continued. "They're just formative years. I wanted to be there for all of it."
Literally obsessed with these two. 😭
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