Eva Mendesis far from offended when people diss her for growing older.
Speaking to PEOPLE at the Create and Cultivate event in Los Angeles on Saturday, Mendes, who turns 46 next month, explained her reason for delivering the classy clapback.
“And I think the whole thing about not asking a woman what her age is archaic,” Mendes continued. “It’s like you can ask me my age and I will happily tell you, I’ll be shocked, somewhat shocked. I’m about to turn 46 and that’s somewhat shocking to me. But I’m proud of that.”
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The fashion entrepreneur continued, “I wanted to make sure to get back to that person because I had something to say and I felt like, look, you mean this, I don’t think it was malicious but you mean it kind of like an insult.”
“I want to show you that I take it as a compliment because I’m still here,” she said. “And I have, you know, instead of saying I am 46, I wish we could change it and I wish I could say, ‘I have 46 years to me’ because in Spanish it’s very beautiful. It says you say, ‘Tengo cuarenta seis años’ I have 46 years and in English I know, it’s a little, you know it’s semantics but it’s important.”
“It’s like I don’t feel 46 but I do feel like I have 46 years of experience to me,” Mendes added. “I just find that so empowering.
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Mendes, who shares daughters Amada Lee, 3½, andEsmeralda Amada, 5 withRyan Gosling, is no stranger to receiving social media criticism — or having a classy rebuttal to it.
Last month, the designerhad a respectful responsewhen a fan criticized the multi-colored patterned dress she wore in an Instagram video. “Don’t like these designs you need a better Designer you to [sic] pretty for these ugly patterns,” the commenter wrote underneath the video of Mendes showing off a new dress she had helped design.
Mendes delivered a classy response, while also promoting fellow celebritiesKate HudsonandGabrielle Union‘s fashion lines.
source: people.com
