Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes brought their two daughters to the 2024 Paris Olympics, in a very rare public outing. The actors and their daughters, 9-year-old Esmeralda and 8-year-old Amada watched the women’s uneven bars final for artistic gymnastics on August 4. The family sighting is truly unusual, as Gosling, 43, and Mendes, 50, are typically tight-lipped about their private lives, declining to post photos of their children online.
Wearing an Olympics baseball hat, the “Barbie” star sat with his arm around Mendes, with one daughter perched on his lap. Read on to learn the details that Gosling and Mendes have shared about their family. Gosling and Mendes into the world on Sept.
12, 2014. “I’m completely exhausted. I thought my wild nights were over but these are some of the wildest nights I’ve ever had,” Mendes told website in 2014.
Mendes also shared the inspiration behind their firstborn's name. “We were really excited about naming her,” Mendes added. “Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel, ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame,’ and we just think it’s a beautiful name.
Amada was my grandmother’s name. It means ‘beloved’ in Spanish.” In an in May 2023, Gosling reflected on the moment Mendes broke the news that she was expecting.
“Eva said she was pregnant,” he said, adding, “I would never want to go back, you know? I’m glad I didn’t have control over my destiny in that way, because it was so much better t.