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" The world officially lost its shit when it was reported that Eva Mendes had given birth to the child of her longtime boyfriend/the world&amp;#039;s favourite heart throb - Ryan Gosling. It then spiralled even further out of control when we all heard their new daughter&amp;#039;s name: Esmeralda Amada Gosling. And now, Eva has spoken exclusively to LA-based beauty site Violet Grey about her first forray into motherhood, and whether or not the Disney film The Hunchback of Notre Dame played any kind of role in the selection of their baby&amp;#039;s name. Well it turns out it DOES. Allowing us to dream happy daydreams of Eva and Ryan snuggling up to a night in with the classic Disney animation, Eva confirms that &amp;quot;Ryan and I both love the Esmeralda character from the Victor Hugo novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and just think it&amp;#039;s a beautiful name.&amp;quot;  But it&amp;#039;s not all airy fairy Disney inspo where their daughter is concerned; her middle name, Amada, is actually a tribute to Eva&amp;#039;s late grandmother, whose name means &amp;quot;beloved&amp;quot; in Spanish. And if our predictions about Ryan Gosling as a daddy are even remotely correct, Emeralda will certainly be one beloved baby. Eva also gave us an insight into her experience of first-time motherhood, confessing that she thinks it&amp;#039;s more of a daily challenge for the baby than it is for her. &amp;quot;Everything is a struggle for her,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;For instance, I haven&amp;#039;t thrown up since the &amp;#039;90s and she&amp;#039;s thrown up twice since we started this interview. Motherhood is cake compared to what it&amp;#039;s like to be a baby.&amp;quot; And perhaps somewhat refreshingly, Eva reveals that she and Ryan have taken a leaf out of Mila and Ashton&amp;#039;s book, and are going it alone for the time being.  She said: &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m doing it without a nanny for now but I&amp;#039;m open to the idea of having a nanny in the future...I go to [online forum] BabyCenter.com and read the comment section from other mothers because I find so much solace in that.&amp;quot; Oh, to be Esmeralda. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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