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Eva Mendes is one happy camper.

“I’m big on therapy,” Mendes told me yesterday. “I’ve always said I love talking about therapy, because there’s nothing wrong with it. Why wait until something goes terrible in your life to start fixing things?”

Mendes, 34, has never talked details about why she did a stint in rehab earlier this year, but she did tell me that one of her biggest issues was coping with her own success. “Up until recently, I was really uncomfortable with having success and enjoying it,” Mendes says. “I just couldn’t deal with that. How can I have so much? It’s not fair. How can the world have so little?…I allowed it to mess with me in the sense that I just didn’t know how to handle it.”

Things are different now. “I’ve really broken it down to this simple thing: I deal with everything by giving it away,” Mendes explains. “It’s genius. It works.”

She literally gives things away, like the new pair of Cartier sunglasses she insisted an elderly friend of hers keep when she tried them on. “I said, ‘You need to have them. They look really good on you,’ ” Mendes says.

Speaking of looking good, Mendes has been the center of a censorship storm because of her new steamy ad campaign for the Calvin Klein perfume Secret Obsession. A 30-second TV spot was banned last month by U.S. television networks because it showed part of her nipple.

Mendes could have had the nip slip cut from the commercial (it’s in her contract), but says she found the slight nudity “beautiful and tasteful.”

In director and writer Diane English’s upcoming The Women, Mendes plays Crystal Allen, a smokin’ hot Saks salesgirl having an affair with married businessman Stephen Haines. Like Stephen’s wife Mary (Meg Ryan), Mendes credits the women in her life for getting her through the tough (and happy) times. “I’ve run into some women in my life who are like, ‘I don’t have any girl friends. I only have guy friends,’” Mendes says. “And I’m like to the guys, ‘Run for the hills when you hear a girl who says she only has guy friends.’ That is a bad situation, because all women should have their base of girls.”

Where does that leave her longtime filmmaker boyfriend George Augusto? “He actually grew up with all women in his family,” Mendes says. “His mom has five sisters, so he gets it.”

Mendes first auditioned for English about three years ago. “They were like, ‘Oh, we’re not sure if you can do funny. We’re not sure if you’re the right person for it,’ ” Mendes remembers “But then two years later, they told me I got the part. I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. I don’t know if I want it. Things have changed here, Miss Thang!’ ”

Obviously, she decided to go for it.

Since we never see or hear Stephen—as in the 1939 original, no men get screen time in the movie—did Mendes picture anyone in particular when thinking about him? “Yeah!” she says with a big smile. “It was a very specific person that I had in mind. But I can’t tell you any of that stuff. Those are secrets of the trade.”

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The guy accused of stealing a bunch of stuff from Kirsten Dunst is paying for it in spades.

Jarrod Beinerman, 33, was sentenced to four and a half years in jail after pleading guilty to attempted burglary in connection with the theft of a $13,000 Balenciaga bag, an iPod and various other goodies from Dunst’s suite last year at the Soho Grand Hotel in Manhattan.

Pleading to the lesser charge allowed Beinerman to avoid more serious counts of burglary and grand larceny. While not copping to any thievery, the offender “admitted being in the hotel” on Aug. 9, 2007, when the incident took place, defense attorney Mitchell Elman told the New York Daily News.

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office told E! News at the time that security cameras caught two men leaving the hotel’s penthouse, where Dunst was staying while in town to film scenes from the comedy How to Lose Friends & Alienate People.

The Brooklyn-based Beinerman, who already had a lengthy rap sheet and had served three years in prison for his role in a cocaine ring, was arrested shortly afterward during a court hearing on unrelated charges. His accomplice has not been identified.

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Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren ere wracked with nerves when they took baby Honor Marie on her first flight - because they feared the tot would cry throughout the journey.

The Fantastic Four star and film producer Warren boarded a plane from Los Angeles to Denver, Colorado last week to attend the Democratic National Convention.

And they brought three-month-old Honor along for the ride - but need not have worried about the noise.

Warren writes on his blog, “It’s always nerve-wracking for new parents to fly with their child because you never know if you’re going to ruin everyone else’s flight with a screaming baby. We sit down and cross our fingers that she will sleep. She does… Nothing really exciting happened on the flight except the energy of what was to come was already palpable.”

But Warren admits their firstborn has always been a well behaved baby: “To date, Honor has been a great baby. Rarely crying. Opting to express herself through simple Haiku’s or interpretive dance instead… yeah right!”

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David Duchovny’s sexual indiscretion has once again come into question after new reports suggest his alleged internet porn habit was used as a cover for cheating on his wife.

The 48-year-old played down rumours he was unfaithful when he reportedly came clean over his internet porn habit after checking into rehab for sex addiction last week.

New reports from The National Enquirer allege the actor went into rehab because his wife, actress Tea Leoni, “finally caught him (cheating)”, prompting her to offer him an ultimatum to seek treatment or face a divorce.

A source tells the tabloid: “At first, Duchovny tried to lie his way out of trouble, but eventually was overwhelmed with guilt and confessed.”

And editors at Us Weekly have fuelled the allegations, adding reports that the actor “has a history of indiscretions”, including one alleged tryst with an extra on his TV show Californication.

Duchovny is currently checked into a 35-day course at the Meadows rehab center in Wickenburg, Arizona, where he has been visited by Leoni. She will miss the premiere of her forthcoming film Ghost Town at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada this week to be by the actor’s side.

Duchovny’s attorney, Larry Stein, has declined to address the reports, adding: “This is a private matter.”

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Rob Lowe’s former nanny is appealing to a judge to reinstate several allegations in her client’s sexual harassment lawsuit against the actor - despite previously claiming victory in the court ruling.

The Brothers & Sisters star sued Jessica Gibson in April, claiming she tried to extort money out of him.

Gibson countersued, accusing the actor of groping her and exposing himself.

California Superior Court Judge Denise de Bellefeuille threw out four of Lowe’s claims against Gibson in July - including his allegations that she defamed him - along with one of the nanny’s accusations in her countersuit.

At the time, Gibson’s lawyer Gloria Allred hailed the judge’s decision as a “huge victory”, despite losing one aspect of the case.
But now website TMZ.com claims Allred has filed an appeal against the ruling, and wants a higher court to reinstate Gibson’s allegation.

The appeal means Allred is likely to have to wait another month before getting Lowe to give a deposition - delaying her own case until a decision on the appeal is made. The nature of that claim is not known as WENN goes to press.

Lowe is also being sued by a second nanny, Laura Boyce, but has denied any improper behavior.

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