Salma Hayek: My Daughter Always Makes Me Laugh

Salma Hayek is the cover girl for the July issue of InStyle Magazine, all to promote her supporting part in Oliver Stone’s Savages – that film with Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, Taylor Kitsch and Benicio del Toro. Salma plays the matriarch of the Mexican drug cartel trying to get into the California drug market. But the real Salma isn’t so dark – her InStyle interview is all about how happy she is and how she loves being a mom so on and so forth.

Salma Hayek opened much in interview with InStyle July 2012 issue:

A Valentina story:

This morning I was feeling jet-lagged. I was still in bed when I heard somebody run into the room. Valentina jumped on my bed and hugged me, and I go, ‘What are you doing? You scared me!’ She started giggling and said to me, ‘You desperately needed my energy.’ I was so surprised she said that. A 4-year-old! And she’s holding me, and it’s so beautiful—and she was so right!”

Hayek and her husband, French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, split much of their family’s time between Paris and L.A. But while their routine can certainly be exhausting, Hayek says, Valentina doesn’t mind the hectic lifestyle and traveling schedule:

We’re lucky because she loves traveling. For her it’s second nature. If I put her in a school in Spain because I’m doing a movie there, she’s excited about this new experience with other kids and the teachers. And when she leaves, she does so with no sorrow. She remembers them and talks about them and loves them, but she doesn’t have the anxiety or sadness — none of that.”

After spending her days juggling responsibilities as a wife, mother, actress and businesswoman, Hayek says she enjoys decompressing in the evenings by reading things like Dr. Seuss books to Valentina.

My daughter comes up with her own songs and rhymes as well. She always makes me laugh.”

On maintaining balance:

I have created a very happy, healthy environment. When a job is over, I go home to my life.”

On her husband:

He’s very romantic, and so am I. What’s really romantic are the moments that are unexpected. You can fly somewhere overnight to make [being together] ‘important,’ but it’s the little things of everyday life that count.”

I thought as her daughter got older she would look more like her mother. But she looks too much like the father to me. Funny how some girls can look like there dad and be so stunning. She is cute but not as cute as I thought she would be…

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