Eva Mendes' new motherhood appreciation

Actress Eva Mendes says she feels more grateful for all of the things her own mother did for her now that she's a parent herself for six months with long-term partner Ryan Gosling and their daughter Esmeralda.

"You never know, right, something random can happen and she's just suddenly not sleeping through the night and you're like, 'Wait, I thought we were sleeping through the night, what's up.Why does it always happen at three or four in the morning'.

"Now I understand so much, my mother's never gotten more, 'I love you so much mommy' texts, I mean, randomly... I get it now," she said on TV show "Extra", reports femalefirst.co.uk.