In 2006,Salma Hayekfound the man of her dreams inFrancois-Henri Pinault(viaPeople).
“He found me, actually.
I wasn’t even looking.”
A year later, the couple announced their engagement.
If that news wasn’t happy enough, they were also expecting their first child together.
“You are my greatest teacher, my greatest joy, and my greatest hope.
“Lockdown was very difficult for a teenager,” she told The Telegraph (viaHello!).
She also really missed her friends.”
She continued, “I was really nervous and embarrassed.
Hayek warned her daughter that the film is “very raunchy”, but Valentina remained indifferent.
Hayek continued, “Anyway, she convinced me and they loved it.
She says, ‘Mom, I understand it’s not you, it’s the character.’
I was quite impressed with that.”
I am sure that there are plenty of women that say, ‘God, what a marvelous life.
She can do this or that.’
But there is nothing that I have done that is more incredible than to have a child.”
It seems her adoration of Valentina has only grown.
Thank you for being YOU."
Valentina was always in a good mood as a child
Kids can be difficult.
There’s a reason the term “terrible twos” was coined for temperamental toddlers.
Yet, according to Salma Hayek, Valentina Pinault was not part of the terrible twos club.
When Valentina was a baby, Hayek toldPeople, “She’s very nice.
She makes me laugh all the time.
She’s always in a good mood.”
As Valentina has grown up, it seems she’s remained a good-natured kid.
Hayek admits Valentina’s willfulness may be an inherited trait.
Hayek was expelled from Catholic school as a child for playing pranks on the nuns.
“I was ingenious,” Hayek said.
“I always had a sense of humor, but there was a naivete in the naughtiness.”
Valentina is trilingual
Being bilingual is impressive, but beingtrilingualis next-level.
Valentina, who was just 5 years old at the time, was quite the jokester.
Another thing the mother-daughter duo shares?
“In this house, we fight over clothes because she takes everything from my closet.
Then I can’t find anything,” Hayek says.
“I want different things, but I almost always move between four,” Valentina tellsVogue Mexico.
If she’s anything like her mom, acting may come easy for her.
After all, Salma Hayek is known as one of Hollywood’s most talented and influential Latina actresses.
“I gotta tell you, she’s very tough.
“She’s seen movies where she goes, ‘My God, that was awful.
Mom, what were you thinking?’
So I was so scared.”
Despite Hayek’s concerns, Valentina gave “Eternals” her stamp of approval.
From the audience of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” Valentina said, “It was fun.
It was a good movie.”
Valentina’s strong opinions on film and movies may be due to her perspective on acting and directing.
Spoken like a future actor-director, if you ask us.
“I take photos of my friends with disposable cameras,” she shared.
“I love photography.
I take photography classes at school, and I love taking photos of my friends.”
Hayek supports Valentina’s photography endeavors, sharing, “I like her photos a lot.
Her teachers also like her photos.
She always has an interesting point of view.”
She tellsVogue Mexico, “I love makeup.
I don’t want to apply concealer because I think dark circles add something else.
Some of Valentina’s favorite products?
“It doesn’t matter where I am.This,” she says, waving the eyelash curler.
“It’s old, but this is the only one!”
She also shared three of her favorite perfumes, including Chanel’s Misia.
“I bought it with my allowance.
When I go to a fancier place, I wear this one …
I love it.”
“She takes it to school or wherever we travel,” Hayek said, referring to the candle.
“When it comes to music …
It’s Lana Del Rey.
I pray to Lana Del Rey,” Valentina says.
Lana isn’t the only icon Valentina loves.
Other music favorites include Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, and Kanye West.
“She has a full-body Kanye West poster on her ceiling,” Hayek reveals.
A smiling Valentina adds, “Yes, I love Kanye.”
However, when she first met Kanye, she didn’t necessarily give the best first impression.
Evidently, her mom woke her up early, telling her to get dressed and that Kanye was coming.
Instead, she blurted out, “Do you want Starbucks?”
Apparently, her slight awkwardness is part of her charm.
“I always do something like that,” she laughs.
With parents like hers, it would be shocking if Valentina didn’t have an interest in fashion.
The 15-year-old seems to have come into her own sense of style in recent years.
Perhaps that’s due to all the fashion shows she attends with her mom.
The duo has been spotted at several designer shows in recent years.
In March 2023, the pair wasseen at a Saint Laurent show.
