Salma Hayek Shares Her Joy About Being a Grandmother
The Actress Attended the Women In Film Honors Event Recently
Hayek Expresses a Deep Connection with Her Grandson
Salma Hayek Reflects on Family and Parenthood
Salma Hayek is not playing it cool about becoming a grandmother. “I was so ready and I’m loving it!” the Frida actress, 60, told Us Weekly in an exclusive interview this week, with her husband, François-Henri Pinault, standing beside her.
Hayek’s stepson, François Pinault Jr., became a dad for the first time over the summer. He and his wife, Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck, welcomed a son, and Hayek has been talking about the baby ever since.
Hayek went public in August. She posted on Instagram that the family was blessed to welcome the fourth living generation of François Pinaults, and added that she had her own nickname for the newborn. The post included a video of her holding him and speaking to him in Spanish.
Days earlier, the baby’s mother had shared her own announcement. She called her husband the world’s coolest François and their son the world’s cutest, marking their first month as parents.
Two announcements came days apart. The new parents went first. Then the grandmother got her turn.
The Actress Attended the Women In Film Honors Event Recently
Her latest update came on the red carpet at the Women In Film Honors in Beverly Hills on Thursday, November 5. Pinault, 64, walked the event with her.
Months into the role, her answer had not cooled at all.
Hayek Expresses a Deep Connection with Her Grandson
September brought the most revealing version of this story. Appearing on Today, Hayek told the hosts she was not sure whether she loved being a grandma or simply loved him. She called him fantastic, easy and special, and said how much she connects with him and misses him.
Host Laura Jarrett offered the classic grandparent line: the best part is handing the baby back once the crying starts. Hayek did not take the bait. She said that was one of her least favorite parts, that she knew some grandparents felt that way, and that she wished she could keep him at her house.
Grandparents usually get to enjoy the cuddles without the night shifts. Hayek is asking for the night shifts.
Wanting more of the hard part says something about where a person is in life. The early years of raising a child are exhausting, and plenty of people remember them as a blur. A grandparent who asks to keep the crying baby is usually someone who has the time now, and who wants a second go at the stage that went by too fast.
Salma Hayek Reflects on Family and Parenthood
Pinault and Hayek married in 2009 after three years of dating. Their daughter was born in September 2007, and the marriage also made her stepmother to his three children.
Her eagerness has a history. Hayek told Red magazine in 2017 that she had a child late in life. She said she identified with her character in the 2015 film Tale of Tales, a woman desperate to have a baby. She had always wanted a lot of children, she said, and had one. Her blessing was that her husband brought three more, so she counts four.
Blended families do not always land that way. Stepparents often stay a step removed for years, polite and careful. Hayek folded her husband’s children into her own count, and now his grandson is the baby she wants to take home.
Salma Hayek spoke to her newborn grandson in Spanish. She plans to call him Panchito. None of it is the language of an honorary title.
Hayek has not said how often she sees him. She has said she misses him.
