I'm a modern woman in the sense of I take care of myself, I'm fiercely independent, and I'm really ambitious. Yet I have these old-school thoughts in my mind.

I don't think it fits in my world today. People named her one of 2012 Most Beautiful at Every Age. Modeling career
Mendes appeared in Will Smith's video "Miami" and the Pet Shop Boys' music video for "Se a vida é (That's the way life is)" in 1996 and Aerosmith's video "Hole in My Soul" in 1997.

She launched a bedding collection in 2008 and a dinnerware collection in 2010. Mendes is a singer: Eva Mendes has recorded a version of The Windmills of Your Mind and has collaborated with Cee Lo Green on a song entitled Pimps Don't Cry. She has since starred in many films including All About The Benjamins (2002); 2 Fast 2 Furious Once Upon a Time in Mexico Out of Time and Stuck on You (2003); Hitch (2005); Ghost Rider and We Own the Night (both 2007); The Spirit (2008); The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009); The Other Guys and Last Night (both 2010) Girl in Progress (2012).