Eva Mendes, who shares two kids with Ryan Gosling, talked to Kelly Clarkson about being a stay-at-home mom.

Eva Mendes had no idea what she signed up for when she decided to put her career on hold and become a stay-at-home mom.

The actress, who shares two daughters with actor Ryan Gosling, stopped by "The Kelly Clarkson Show" and said that even though people told her how hard motherhood was going to be, no one could have ever prepared her for the reality of it.

"People are so sweet, they really try to warn you, prep you, when you’re pregnant, but nobody can prep you," Mendes told Clarkson. "Nobody told me it was gonna really be a job and a job that I needed an incredible amount of skill for."

She then listed off all the skill sets she needed to be a stay at home: "a chauffeur, a cook, a personal assistant to an abusive boss."

It's unclear whether the abusive boss is 5-year-old Esmeralda or 3-year-old Amada.

What makes juggling all these careers at once all the more difficult is that the kids aren't grateful.

"They’re not grateful! Oh my God, do they get grateful?" Mendes asked. "Does that happen at some point?"

Mendes went on to add that with any other profession, people would need to take an exam of sorts to make sure they're qualified, but not with motherhood.

"In any other profession, you’d need to take a test or pass tests. The only test I had to pass was a pregnancy test," Mendes joked.

But the hardest part about being a mom isn't dealing with the abuse from your kids or cleaning up after them, it's actually the snacks. Mendes revealed that the hardest part was carrying around snacks all day.

"Especially on long car rides, those are the worst," Mendes said. "But even going to the market, we're like going to the market, but I need to take food in the car to go to the market."

Later in the interview, Mendes admitted that she and her husband are probably "bulldozing parents."

She joked that they have to be helicopter parents because their kids are so young.

"Well what else are we supposed to do?" she joked. "We have to be on top of them every second ... so ya, i'm a helicopter parent."

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Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling share two daughters.

Although Mendes has two kids now, there was a time where she didn't see herself ever being a mother until she met Gosling.

"Ryan Gosling happened," the actress said in an interview with Women's Health. "I mean, falling in love with him. Then it made sense for me to have … not kids, but his kids. It was very specific to him."

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