Salma Hayek Feels ‘Pressure’ To Make Money Despite Marriage To Billionaire

The Hollywood star shattered the notion that her high-profile marriage exempts her from financial worries, explaining that she nonetheless feels the “stress” to make her personal cash.

Salma Hayek beforehand famous that she was “offended” by the speculations that she married François-Henri Pinault for cash.

In a Tuesday interview with the Wall Street Journal, the “Grown Ups” actress opened up about sure stress she has to earn money regardless of being married to her billionaire husband, Francois-Henri Pinault, over the past 15 years.

Hayek tied the knot in April 2009 with the Kering CEO and Groupe Artémis president. Nevertheless, she was seemingly suffering from allegations that their union was organized and that she bought married for cash.

Of their chat, she informed the information outlet that “she and Pinault hold their funds separate” and that “there is no prenuptial settlement dividing belongings.”

“I help a variety of the facets of my life and myself,” she defined. “I’ve the stress to make a sure amount of cash, and I prefer it. And now, I made a decision, I wish to make extra.”

The 58-year-old “Frida” actress then went additional to element how her marriage to Pinault, whose firm owns luxurious manufacturers like Gucci and Saint Laurent, modified the connection dynamics in her life.

She defined that after their wedding ceremony, “all folks needed to speak to me about was cash,” including that “the thrill about having some huge cash was that I did not have to consider cash.”

Hayek famous that she was additionally approached by rich individuals who needed to attach along with her, saying, “Strangers coming to me that are not even pals, however they suppose we ought to be pals as a result of they’re wealthy, too.”

Elsewhere, in one other video interview on Tuesday, she weighed in on her enduring profession, insisting that her “tenacity and consistency” have saved the doorways open for her regardless of standard Hollywood tendencies.

“What has opened the doorways for me has been my tenacity [and] my consistency – I simply will not go away,” she mentioned.

Hayek continued, “And it is humorous, simply after they informed me that after a sure age, your profession is over – that is when my profession began getting higher. They mentioned, ‘You cease working at 40 in Hollywood,’ and right here we’re 58, I am nonetheless working.”

It comes after the “Desperado” actress informed Dax Shepard in an look on his “Armchair Skilled” podcast that she was “offended” by the assumptions she bought married to Pinault due to cash.

On the time, the couple had simply marked their twelfth anniversary with Hayek declaring that they are “robust in love” and claimed folks do not see the “magic” in her husband as a result of they solely concentrate on his wealth.

” the factor is that in photos you can not start to guess the magic in him. He is made me change into a a lot better particular person, and develop in such a superb, wholesome approach,” she mentioned, per Every day Mail.

“And you understand once I married him, everyone mentioned, ‘Oh, it is an organized marriage, she married him for the cash.’ I am like, ‘Yeah, no matter, b-tch.’ Suppose what you need: 15 years collectively, and we’re robust in love,” she continued.

She added that wealthy males are sometimes subjected to “discrimination” that makes them unworthy of actual love, though she acknowledged that some folks actually marry for cash.

“Instantly you suppose as a result of any individual’s wealthy, [they] won’t be a superb particular person,” she defined on the time. “May be any individual materialistic, may be any individual that does not have values, may be any individual that’s even silly or that does not deserve it. With the intention to have some huge cash, you probably did it the mistaken approach; there’s all this preconception.”

Away from her marriage, Hayek and fellow actress Nicole Kidman lately stirred up rumors of a feud after an eyebrow-raising incident between them.

A video of the pair seemingly engaged in a clumsy scenario exterior the Balenciaga runway present late final month went viral lately. Within the clip, they have been surrounded by a swarm of paparazzi and photographers incessantly taking photos.

When one in every of them requested for “another” photograph, Hayek used her hand to show Kidman towards the digicam, however she appeared to not be within the temper and pushed Hayek’s hand away earlier than strolling off.

In line with Page Six, UK-based knowledgeable witness and forensic lip reader Jeremy Freeman decoded the women’ seemingly icy encounter.

“Let’s flip there. OK, right here,” Hayek seems to have informed Kidman, who purportedly replied, “Hey, I am high quality. I am good. There, it is sufficient. It is OK.”

A supply, nevertheless, informed the information outlet that “there is no dangerous blood between” the actresses and that they “adore one another.”