Why Salma Hayek's Husband Wouldn't Let Her Be a Stay-at-Home Mom
She wanted to quit acting, but François Pinault encouraged her not to.
— -- After the birth of their daughter, Salma Hayek told her now-husband, François Pinault, that she wanted to quit acting.
He encouraged her not to.
"[He said], 'You have to [keep acting]. We're not putting up with some lazy girl in the house. That's not who I married,'" Hayek told Allure magazine. "And then he said something so beautiful. ... 'I don't want to be deprived of your work. I want to watch it, too. And the world has not seen the best of you yet. So you cannot stop until some of that is put out.' So he sort of really pushed me, like, 'Get up on your feet and get out there.' And he was right."
Hayek, 48, and Pinault, a 53-year-old billionaire and the CEO of the French luxury company Kering, welcomed their daughter, Valentina, in late 2007. They were married in 2009 -- though, according to Hayek, she wanted to stay at least somewhat financially independent.
"I have a system in my life that I've chosen, where my expenses from before the marriage are my expenses," she told the magazine. "And he goes, 'I know. That's why I want to marry you.' ... Maybe that's also part of what works great in my marriage. ... I still have my independence. But he likes it. ... And I get a lot of respect from him."
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