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14 of Eva Mendes's Most Empowering Quotes About Motherhood

Eva Mendes Quotes on Parenting

14 of Eva Mendes's Most Empowering Quotes About Motherhood

March 5, 2017 by Alessandra Foresto

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On Her 2 Daughters

"They definitely come with their own stuff and it's pretty great. I feel like my job is just to get out of their way, and protect them, but let them be who they are."
"We love Hunchback of Notre Dame. We loved the name [Esmeralda], the cartoon, and the novel, you know — it just kind of kept coming back to us. It's actually a very popular Latin name so it's easy for my father and certain family members that still don't speak English to pronounce. That was a good selling point."
"Well, I have two girls. That's a lot. It's early for me to make any big statement about having children. My older little girl is not yet 2 years old. My little one is still an infant, and right now it's really about surviving those nights and trying to enjoy this time as much as possible with them, and start the bond between Esmeralda and Amada. It's a really, really special time. I'm loving it."
"My grandmother's name is Amada, and Esmeralda Amada is the name of our oldest. We had a few names picked out for our new baby, and when she was born, we didn't feel like those names were her. We came up with a few more, even that morning, and tried them out. We were like, 'What about Viviana?' But we just kept going back to Amada. In true Latin fashion, we reuse names all the time. I used to know five sisters that were all Maria del Carmen, Maria Elena, Maria Liliana . . . "

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