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\"I hate you April,\" the actress wrote in her post Monday. \"But I love you more.\"

Mendes shares two children with husband Ryan Gosling. In addition to Amada, 7, the couple have a 9-year-old daughter named Esmeralda.

Gosling told Ellen DeGeneres in a 2016 interview that Amada means \"beloved\" in Spanish.

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