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‘Where’s Eva?’ That’s what many wondered as Ryan Gosling went through the most recent awards season without his reported wife Eva Mendes by his side.

Gosling gave some indication of Mendes’ priorities in his acceptance speech for the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical, thanking his “lady” for raising their daughters and supporting her terminally brother while he was on the La La Land set.

“If she hadn’t taken all that on so that I could have this experience, would surely be someone else up here other than me to today,” he told the audience.

Still, it was a surprise to some when even at the Oscars, where he was nominated in the Best Actor category, his fellow actress wife was a no-show.

Eva, 43, has explained why she was nowhere to be seen the last few months speaking to Shape magazine.

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“What people don’t know about me is that I love being home,” she explained. “Instead of hitting the red carpet, I’d rather be with our girls.”

The “girls” are the couple’s daughters; Esmerelda, two, and Amada, one.

It seems Ryan and Eva truly are committed to living life out of the spotlight and maintaining a sense of normalcy for their daughters, if even an Oscar nomination couldn’t draw them out for a rare public sighting. Kudos to them.