Salma Hayek Feels ‘Strain’ To Make Cash Regardless of 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 Avenue Journal, the “Grown Ups” actress opened up about sure pressure 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 suffering from allegations that their union was organized and that she acquired married for cash.

Of their chat, she advised the information outlet that “she and Pinault hold their funds separate” and that “there is not any prenuptial settlement dividing property.”

“I help a number of the elements of my life and myself,” she defined. “I’ve the stress to make a sure sum of money, 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 individuals wished 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 wished to attach along with her, saying, “Strangers coming to me that are not even associates, however they assume we must be associates 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 stored 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 stated.

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

It comes after the “Desperado” actress advised Dax Shepard in an look on his “Armchair Skilled” podcast that she was “offended” by the assumptions she acquired 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 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’t start to guess the magic in him. He is made me change into a significantly better particular person, and develop in such a very good, wholesome manner,” she stated, per Each day Mail.

“And you recognize once I married him, everyone stated, ‘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 individuals actually marry for cash.

“Instantly you assume as a result of anyone’s wealthy, [they] may not be a very good particular person,” she defined on the time. “May be anyone materialistic, may be anyone that does not have values, may be anyone that’s even silly or that does not deserve it. With a view to have some huge cash, you probably did it the improper manner; there may be 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 outdoors 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 one in every of them requested for “yet another” photograph, 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 Web 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 advised Kidman, who purportedly replied, “Hey, I am fantastic. I am good. There, it is sufficient. It is OK.”

A supply, nevertheless, advised the information outlet that “there is not any dangerous blood between” the actresses and that they “adore one another.”