Eva Mendes didn’t expect to be ‘locked down’ as stay-at-home mom to Ryan Gosling’s kids at 50

Eva Mendes is “locked down” and loving it.

Although nan character “certainly didn’t think” she’d beryllium a stay-at-home mom astatine 50, she gushed to People about her life pinch Ryan Gosling and their 2 daughters.

“A definite man came into my life and made maine alteration my mind astir each that stuff,” she explained successful an question and reply published Wednesday.

Mendes’ profession has been connected clasp since welcoming girl Esmeralda, 9, and daughter Amada, 7, successful 2014 and 2016, respectively — which she called nan “easiest decision” she’s made.

She told nan outlet that she “wanted to beryllium location for each of” nan small ones’ “formative” years.

The businesswoman’s comments travel connected nan heels of her telling “Today” show viewers astir her and Gosling’s “non-verbal agreement” that she would return a measurement backmost from acting to raise their family.

The actor, meanwhile, has starred successful “Barbie,” “The Gray Man” and much awesome films since becoming a dad.

“It was like, ‘Ok, he’s going to activity and I’m going to work, I’m conscionable going to activity here,'” Mendes said successful March. “I’m truthful lucky.”

The prime was a “no-brainer,” she continued, clarifying, “I still worked, I conscionable didn’t act. Acting takes you connected locations, it takes you away.”

She and Gosling met and fell successful emotion connected group of “The Place Beyond nan Pines” successful 2011.

Although nan brace person sparked engagement and matrimony rumors complete nan years, they person ne'er confirmed nor denied those milestones — too Mendes referring to Gosling arsenic her “husband” successful 2022.

The mates support their emotion life private, but Gosling has precocious made headlines for giving his partner subtle shout-outs.

While hosting “Saturday Night Live” successful April, nan Golden Globe victor joked astir being married to a Cuban woman.

He besides wore a T-shirt promoting Mendes’ children’s book, “Desi, Mami and nan Never-Ending Worries,” during a property time for “The Fall Guy” Monday.

Gosling went a different way for nan movie’s premiere connected Tuesday, pinch him and Mikey Day reviving their Beavis and Butt-Head looks from their viral “SNL” sketch.