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 “strain” 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 rigidity she has to become profitable 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. Nonetheless, she was seemingly affected by allegations that their union was organized and that she obtained married for cash.

Of their chat, she instructed the information outlet that “she and Pinault maintain their funds separate” and that “there isn’t any prenuptial settlement dividing belongings.”

“I assist a number of the elements of my life and myself,” she defined. “I’ve the strain to make a sure sum of money, and I prefer it. And now, I made a decision, I need 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 individuals needed to speak to me about was cash,” including that “the joy 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 together with her, saying, “Strangers coming to me that are not even pals, however they suppose we needs 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 developments.

“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 instructed 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 instructed Dax Shepard in an look on his “Armchair Knowledgeable” podcast that she was “offended” by the assumptions she obtained married to Pinault due to cash.

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

“You understand 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 individual, and develop in such , wholesome method,” she mentioned, per Day by day Mail.

“And you already know 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 sturdy 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 individuals really marry for cash.

“Instantly you suppose as a result of someone’s wealthy, [they] may not be individual,” she defined on the time. “Is perhaps someone materialistic, is perhaps someone that does not have values, is perhaps someone that’s even silly or that does not deserve it. To be able to have some huge cash, you probably did it the fallacious method; 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 an ungainly state of affairs exterior the Balenciaga runway present late final month went viral lately. Within the clip, they had been surrounded by a swarm of paparazzi and photographers incessantly taking photos.

When considered one of them requested for “another” picture, Hayek used her hand to show Kidman towards the digital camera, 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 instructed Kidman, who purportedly replied, “Hey, I am wonderful. I am good. There, it is sufficient. It is OK.”

A supply, nonetheless, instructed the information outlet that “there isn’t any dangerous blood between” the actresses and that they “adore one another.”