Salma Hayek is officially a grandmother — and she’s marking the occasion with the sweetest social media tribute to the newest member of her family.
“We are blessed to welcome the fourth living generation of Francois’,” the actress, 59, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, August 16, revealing the newborn’s first name — which, yes, matches her husband’s, François-Henri Pinault, and stepson’s, François Pinault Jr., monikers.
Of course, the proud and newly-minted grandmother already has a nickname picked out for her grandson.
“Although I will call him Panchito,” she continued. “He seems to love it, and I cannot love him more.”
Hayek also included a video featuring the actress speaking Spanish to the newborn as she lovingly held him in her arms.
The Desperado actress became a grandmother after François, 28, welcomed his first baby with his wife, Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck.
Days prior to the celebratory post, Henckel von Donnersmarck announced that she and François were officially parents.
“My husband (the world’s coolest françois) and our son( the world’s cutest françois) … our first month as parents🐣,” she wrote via Instagram on August 12 alongside a series of snaps of her with her newborn.
Hayek wed François-Henri, 64, in 2009 after dating for three years. Years later, the actress opened up about wanting to have a big family. (Hayek shares daughter Valentina, 18, with François-Henri in addition to being stepmom to her husband’s three children. The businessman shares François and daughter Mathilde, 25, with ex-wife Dorothée Lepère, as well as son Augustin Evangelista, 19, whom he welcomed with ex-girlfriend Linda Evangelista.)
“I had a child late in life,” Hayek said in a 2017 interview with Red magazine about being a mother, adding that she “identified” with her character in the 2015 film Tale of Tales who had a “desperate desire to have a child and maybe feeling that you could never be happy or complete, that your life is not complete, without this.”
The Oscar winner continued, “I’ve had that yearning, that longing, and that pain… I always wanted to have a lot of children, and I was not able to. My body, as a miracle, had one. The huge blessing I’ve had is that my husband has three other children. So I have four. And they are all so different.”
Hayek has been a doting mom to her blended family as she has celebrated her children’s milestones over the years. Last year, Hayek penned a touching tribute when Valentina celebrated her 18th birthday.
“My beautiful dancing queen. Today you turned 18 !!!!! So many things have changed in your life, but you are always soooo you,” she wrote via Instagram in September 2025. “A kind passionate heart, a wise soul full of magic, a unique unstoppable force of nature with a witty sense of humor and stubborn tenacity. Some things will never chance we love you forever and although you were always ahead of your years you will always be in my heart my dream daughter.”
