Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes quietly move away from Los Angeles

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have quietly left Los Angeles to set up home somewhere else, according to reports, in a bid to escape the bright lights of Hollywood.

Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have reportedly moved their two young daughters out of Los Angeles to avoid them growing up “around other celebrity kids.”

A source toldPeople that the Barbie actor and Mendes moved “a bit further north,” away from Hollywood.

The ultra-private celebrity couple, who rarely walk red carpets together, share two daughters: Esmeralda, 9, and Amada, 7.

“For them, the most important job is their girls. Everything else comes second,” the source told the outlet.

“And their girls are thriving. They left LA to live a bit further north, away from Hollywood. They didn’t want the girls to grow up around other celebrity kids.”

Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling have reportedly moved away from Hollywood. Picture: Sonia Recchia/Getty Images

The source continued, “Eva and Ryan love their life. It’s admirable how they’ve been able to create balance and boundaries. They care so much about their marriage and just want their girls to live a happy life.”

It is unclear if the stars, who have been in a long-term relationship since 2011, are now married. Fox News Digital has reached out to reps for Mendes and Gosling for comment.

Despite living private lives, Mendes, 50, took to Instagram on Sunday night following the 96th Academy Awards to congratulate Gosling, 43, on his “I’m Just Ken” performance and urged him to get home to attend to parenting duties.

The Ghost Rider actress wore Gosling’s pink, bedazzled blazer he wore during the performance and a black cowboy hat.

“You took Ken all the way to the Oscar’s, RG,” Mendes wrote. “Now come home, we need to put the kids to bed.”

Eva Mendes honoured Ryan Gosling with this photo after his performance at the Oscars.

Mendes did not attend the Oscars at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday night. Instead, Gosling attended the award show with his sister, Mandi Gosling.

“It truly seems they are surviving Hollywood as a couple, because of the way they’ve handled being famous. They try their best to stay out of the spotlight,” the source added of Mendes not joining her husband at the event.

Gosling attended the Oscars with his sister Mandy Gosling. Picture: Frederic J. Brown / AFP

When Gosling was nominated for the Oscar for best supporting actor, Mendes took to Instagram sharing several previous reports that slammed Gosling for taking the Barbie role.

“So proud of my man,” she captioned her post in January. “So much hate when he took on this role. So many people trying to shame him for doing it. Despite all the #Notmyken ridicule and articles written about him, he created this completely original, hilarious, heartbreaking, now iconic character and took it all the way to Oscars.”

She concluded with, “So beyond proud to be this Ken’s Barbie.”

At the Barbie premiere in July, Gosling appeared to make a subtle nod to Eva by wearing a pink ‘E’ necklace around his neck.

More recently, Gosling accepted the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in January and reflected on how making films has positively impacted his life.

The pair have been together since 2011. Picture: Robert Kamau/GC Images

“I got to meet the girl of my dreams, Eva Mendes,” Ryan told the crowd at the event in January. “I have two dream children. I dreamt of one day making movies and now movies have made my life a dream.”

He continued, “So the way I see it, there’s no way I’ve contributed half as much to cinema as cinema has contributed to me. But the idea that I might’ve given something back to the thing that has given so much to me is too great an honour for me to express.”

On the festival’s red carpet, Gosling reminisced on the 2012 film he starred in with Mendes, A Place Beyond the Pines.

He told E! News that it was the “greatest experience” he had making a movie and “hopes” to be able to make another with Mendes.

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