Salma Hayek responds to rumors she married her billionaire husband ‘for the money’
Salma Hayek is capturing down rumors that she married her husband, billionaire François-Henri Pinault, as a result of he is wealthy. Married since Feb. 14, 2009, the couple simply celebrated their twelfth wedding ceremony anniversary, and are dad and mom to 13-year-old daughter Valentina.
Speaking on Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast on Monday, the 54-year-old actress responded to hypothesis over her relationship with the Frenchman, who’s CEO of the luxurious vogue group Kering and oversees manufacturers together with Gucci, Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent. Shepard himself admitted that prior to assembly Pinault, he too questioned if their marriage was a superficial one.
“I was like, oh, OK, she married a rich guy, maybe that’s why she married him, I don’t know,” the actor recalled as soon as considering. “I meet him and I’m like, this guy is so foxy — oh my God, the confidence, his eyes, he’s so good-looking and charming and I was like, oh, this motherf***** could’ve been broke. He’s a bombshell.”
Shepard could not assist however gush over Pinault.
“What a f*****g nice, fun, generous, kind, warm guy — but beyond that, he’s super-sexy too,” he informed Hayek, who agreed that her husband is “the best.” But she added that individuals who do not know him or see their connection have usually assumed that she’s in it for his fortune.
“You know the thing is that in pictures you cannot begin to guess the magic in him,” the Oscar nominee stated. “He’s made me become a much better person, and grow in such a good, healthy way. And you know when I married him, everybody said, ‘Oh, it’s an arranged marriage, she married him for the money. I’m like, ‘yeah, whatever, bitch.’ Think what you want: 15 years together, and we are strong in love.”
But Hayek says she’s “offended” by such hypothesis.
“I’m like, ‘yeah, whatever,'” she informed Shepard and his podcast co-host, Monica Padman, who protested that these assumptions had been sexist since Hayek herself is a profitable girl with her personal cash. Though Hayek acknowledged that some individuals do marry for cash, she feels rich males like Pinault are topic to “discrimination” and stereotyping that provides rise to rumors that they don’t seem to be worthy of actual love.
“We’re touching on a very interesting conversation,” the Bliss star stated. “There is a discrimination also to rich men. Immediately you think because somebody’s rich, [they] might not be a good person. Might be somebody materialistic, might be somebody that doesn’t have values, might be somebody that is even stupid or that doesn’t deserve it. … In order to have a lot of money, you did it the wrong way, there is all this preconception.”
She too felt that manner, she admitted.
“And I had that by the way. It was the last thing I wanted — it was not my type at all. And I came in with the preconceptions and he [melted] them all away,” she stated of Pinault.
She added that her husband would not match the stereotype of being “controlling” or a “workaholic” who solely thinks about cash.
“My guy finishes work, no matter how hard it was — and trust me he has a lot of responsibilities — [with a] big smile on his face, happy to be home, happy to see me and the kids, make us laugh,” she informed Shepard and Padman.
“When we go on vacation he completely shuts off, he’s in the moment,” she continued. “And so it’s not just an insult to me — I’m not the one being judged only. ‘Oh, she’s an actor, she’s going for the money.’ They cannot begin to imagine what a joy that human being is.”
Hayek went on to recommend that individuals purchase into such stereotypes as a result of it “gives us comfort to have these archetypes” – one thing she personally resists.
“Putting things into boxes — I don’t like that, I’m a rebel,” she stated.
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