Actress Salma Hayek Calls Off Engagement to French Billionaire
Salma Hayek and French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault — the father of her daughter Valentina — have called off their engagement.
“We are sad to announce the engagement of Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault has been canceled,” Hayek’s rep said in a statement to USA Today. “There will be no further comment.”
Hayek, 41, told the April issue of Glamour that she didn’t feel the “need” to get married.
“Do I think we are going to get married? Probably. Will it make a difference? I hope not,” she said.
“You want to grow old with someone, you want to have a partner and to have children — we have all those things,” Hayek added. “Some people need the commitment. Maybe we’ll just make the party!”
The two kept their relationship low-key since meeting in Venice in May 2006.
They revealed they were expecting around the same time they announced their engagement last March.
Valentina was born last September.
Initially, Hayek said she “wanted a boy.”
“Probably because I was afraid,” she told Glamour. “I think women suffer a bit more than boys, and there is always conflict between mothers and daughters.”
“Now that she’s here, I’m so happy she’s a girl,” Hayek said. “And I can’t imagine there ever being conflict between us, because I’m in a state of innocence where I love everything she does.”
Valentina is the first child for Hayek; Pinault, 45, has two children from a previous marriage.
