Eva Mendes 'marriage is not personal'

Eva Mendes thinks marriage is “not personal”.

The Hitch actress who has been dating Peruvian filmmaker George Augusto for nearly a decade has an aversion to tying the knot because she thinks the institution is “archaic” and not a romantic thing to do.

“It’s not personal. There are all these wedding shows and it’s so over-the-top, it’s so not about what it should be about,” she said.

“I’m not like anti-marriage or the institution for other people. I love the idea of a union, that’s very beautiful. I just don’t think it should be a piece of paper because society tells me to.

“It’s a very old fashioned archaic kind of thing. We did it for land originally, how unromantic is that?”

The 37-year-old beauty admitted seeing older, unmarried people in love and referring to their partners can be “really sexy”.

“I actually think it’s really sexy to be with someone in their 50s or 60s and be like ‘that’s my boyfriend’. But I think husband and wife are very unsexy words,” she added.