Eva Mendes is very private about her family. She almost never speaks about her kids, even less about her relationship with Ryan Gosling.

And when it comes to photos of the happy family together, forget about it!

But one fan did provoke the Hitch star into discussing her baby daddy and his skills as a father on Thursday. Eva posted a drawing by one of the couple’s daughters on Instagram, writing:

“Current state 💙
Feel free to caption.
Love reading your comments. I look forward to replying when I get a second from the kids.
Sending so much love out there.💙”

Many followers did comment, including one who read way into the comment about “getting a second from the kids.”

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The fellow momma wrote:

“Hi Eva, hope you will answer to my question. I really love you, really I do, but yesterday under your lastest I saw that someone had thought what sometime I tought about your post. I mean sometime you seems a struggle single mother and we know that you have a man, but the way you write, I mean, seems that your husband let the hard job to you and he doesn’t help you.”

Ryan Gosling leaving the hardest part of parenting to Mom? Not doing his share??

Well, Eva was not about to take that lying down! She responded:

“hi! Thanks for your honest comment. So here’s my very honest answer …I love women. I’m a girls girl. I love connecting to women. That’s mainly why I have this page. So when I say I’m a “tired mama” and want to connect to other “tired mamas” it’s not about excluding the fathers or other caregivers that do so much. It’s just me connecting to other women but in no way does it de-value what papas do.”

Wow, that was so much sweeter than many replies on social media. It’s not even a clapback, it’s more like a gentle-caress-back.

On RyGos as a parent, she reiterated her position on privacy, saying:

“And why I don’t talk about Ryan and all the wonderful things he does as a father, is because I keep that part private. I don’t want to involve him or how he parents because I don’t feel comfortable crossing that boundary that I have set for myself. I feel it’s best that I continue to disclose what I’m comfortable with but not Involve him or my kids too much. It’s not about being cagey or weird , it’s just about staying private in a public space. Does that make sense? Hope so. Because this is my honest answer and I really do love connecting to you women. Happy to explain further. Sending so much love ❤️”

So sweet! And obviously good to hear straight from the source how amazing Ryan is at being a dad.

Would YOU be able to keep from bragging if Ryan Gosling was your baby daddy??

[Image via IPA/Patricia Schlein/WENN.]

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