Salma Hayek covers the August issue of Allure. The cover is… odd? Salma looks like she had some eye work done, but I think that’s just makeup (hopefully). She also sort of posed topless for the editorial but I’m not posting that photo – you can see it here. As for the interview… Salma talks about the same kinds of things in most interviews these days. She’s in love with her husband, motherhood is amazing, she loves to work, she’ll never Botox, etc. There are some new pieces of information in this piece though, like Salma proudly declaring that she never goes more than two weeks without seeing her daughter. Is that a thing? Why wouldn’t she see her daughter every day or nearly every day?
Her dating life before Francois-Henri Pinault: “I wish I knew [when I was younger] that I was going to fall crazy in love with the perfect man. I was so worried, and I dated some people I shouldn’t have dated. You get desperate, and you start seeing wonderful things in, like, the wrong guys. I also found some pretty good guys. But I wish I could say to myself: ‘Hey, chill out. You’re going to get a great husband that’s going to adore you.’ I would have saved myself a lot of personal drama.”
Motherhood first: “I’ve never been apart from my daughter for more than two weeks. And same with François. We don’t separate for long periods of time. Never.”
Her husband insisted she go back to work after giving birth: “I said, ‘I don’t think I want to work anymore.’ And it was François who said, ‘Oh, no, you’re going back to work.’ And I said, ‘I don’t want to.’ ‘Well, you have to. We’re not putting up with some lazy girl in the house. That’s not who I married.’ He said something so beautiful. ‘I don’t want to be deprived of your work. I want to watch it, too. And the world has not seen the best of you yet. So you cannot stop until some of that is put out.’ So he sort of really pushed me, like, ‘Get up on your feet and get out there.’ And he was right.”
When Francois proposed, she told him she still wanted her financial independence: “I have a system in my life that I’ve chosen, where my expenses from before the marriage are my expenses. And he goes, ‘I know. That’s why I want to marry you.’ Maybe that’s also part of what works great in my marriage. I still have my independence. But he likes it… And I get a lot of respect from him.”
She’s glad she never Botoxed: “When I was young, they tried to sell me on the idea: ‘If you do it now, then you won’t get the wrinkles.’ And thank God I didn’t do that.”
[From Allure & The Daily Mail]
First of all, I would still love to know what went down between Salma and Edward Norton. My theory is that Norton was one of Salma’s make-it-work-even-though-he’s-the-wrong-guy relationships. As for the stuff about money and how Pinault insisted that Salma go back to work… I have mixed feelings. On one side, I can see how he was trying to compliment her and encourage her to follow her love of acting. On the other side, it just seems rude for a man to tell his partner – who only recently gave birth – to go back to work and that she’s being “lazy” by wanting to stay home with the kid for a while. But sure, even when you’re married to a billionaire, you still have to make sure your own finances are in order. Especially if he’s the kind of guy to call a woman “lazy” for wanting to take a career break after having a baby.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Allure and Fame/Flynet.
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