Salma Hayek: Being Super-Rich and "Privileged" Is "Great"
Credit: Mario Testino for Allure
Salma Hayek is not interested in slumming it.
The actress, 44, wed French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault (his family is worth $11.5 billion) in February 2009, and the duo share daughter Valentina, who turns 4 next month.
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And the Puss in Boots star doesn't apologize for the super-luxe, globe-trotting life she gets to lead. "I never understood the point of being privileged if you don't get to have the privileges," Hayek says in the September issue of Allure.
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Explains the Mexican-born beauty: "Like, people who won't take their kids to an expensive restaurant, or won't travel with them, or make them pay for everything at a really young age. I think it's important that kids have responsibilities and understand the value of things, but I think it's great I get to travel the world with my daughter." According to the New York Post, Pinault spends $50,000 per month, via trust, on his little girl, on top of lavish vacations and gifts.
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(Another kid living the high life thanks to Pinault, the 49-year-old CEO of Pinault-Printemps-Redoute? Augustin James, his 4-year-old son with supermodel Linda Evangelista, conceived during a break in his relationship with Hayek. A judge recently sided with supermodel Evangelista when she asked for $46,000 a month in child support.)
Still, while Hayek loves yachts, private jets, expensive clothes and more, there're one indulgence she hasn't shelled out for: Plastic surgery or other cosmetic procedures.
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"I've never had anything done on my face," Hayek insists. "I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing."
Her famous cleavage is also 100 percent natural -- and she loves it!
"My boobs, they're not bad, by the way. I'm not complaining about them."
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62I love Salma and think she's a super-talented actress. She's also super hot. And apparently super candid (and maybe a trifle insensitive). There are times when I wish celebrities would just shut up and do what (some of them) do best: ACT. On that note, I'm looking forward to seeing her in another movie.
She's pretty, smart, talented, i love her because she is honest person, and she was millionare before she married with francois henry pinault, now she is billionare, congratulations Salma.
What a dou**e. Just enjoy the money you made by your. own. dang. self. And by you, I mean your boobs. How is that not enough??!? Why was it necessary to then marry another person's family billions? -And then to go ego-surf silly magazines about spending someone else's money. Undignified, plastic, unclassy and avaricious. The only people who agree with her self-assessment are cultureless, phony, bourgeois Philistines.
Whatever!!..There's not one person posting on this who would rather be poor than rich. You're mad b/c she's stating the obvious?? Much better than the PHONY ones who like to pose w/orphans but won't give a penny to charity. And since when are rich people expected to give away all of their money? How many charities do you guys give to?? C'mon now...jealousy is not pretty people..
just a short few years ago I was one who put her in my 'top 10' hottest 'celebrities', but people who like to brag about themselves are dirt and she has fallen to my top 10,000 (she barely makes that list just cause of those big cans she has)...for the other 99.99% who fight threw life, I hope she slips and falls and hits her big giant ego head on the curb!
No need to boast, we hear you.
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Never liked her. Still don't. Famous for marrying money. No talent.
She's gorgeous and talented and now she's super rich and privileged. Now I really hate her. I'm just kidding, I always liked Salma because she's honest. Who the hell wants to be poor? That headline makes it seem like she's some rich witch but she's not she actually gives plenty of her money and time to help others.
She's a brazen fool. She didn't earn the money, she married it. She needs to shove those boobs away once in awhile..oh..now I see how she got the money, besides being a wet nurse.
Atleast she is real. Unlike, many actresses who think there it but nobody really gives a crap about them.
Oh, quit the hating. She has every right to enjoy her wealth. If you want it, start an acting career and marry a billionaire yourself. Keep spending Selma. When you shop in America, Americans work! These idiots don't seem to understand that. Beautiful, brainy, hardworking, funny, and honest. Hmmm.... what's not to like.
Selma, every dog has its day, and that is just a fact. We are all dogs and we all have our day, but briefly, before you can realize, the flick on the cosmic screen, and you and yours are history. As President Richard M. Nixon once said, " Seize the moment", for it may not happen again. I enjoyed the film, Frida, and although you need no flattery, you were great.
Her chest is perfect and we can't all be poor.
She has a very nice chest and we all can't be poor.
She has nice headlights and we all can't be poor.
Come on every comment that the most of the people has written show a horrible feeling: envy and unknowledge about the charities that Salma Hayek keep doing.
shame on you and this magazine. do you have any idea what it is like to live on 46,000. a year? I am a teacher in Idaho with three kids in college and my husband is deceased. each day is struggle and i am not stupid or ugly. i love my job.
another rich capitalist gold-digging witch who targets others for not being generous while acting like a miser herself.