Salma Hayek says she has 'pressure' to earn money amid marriage to billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault

Salma Hayek opened up connected her family finances successful a caller interview, saying that she's nether a definite among of strain to earn, amid her 15-year matrimony to billionaire businessman Francois-Henri Pinault.

The Frida star, 58, who tied nan knot pinch nan Kering CEO and Groupe Artémis president, 62, successful April 2009, chat pinch The Wall Street Journal astir a assortment of topics successful a characteristic published connected Tuesday, including her marital union.

The Oscar-nominated character said successful nan financial publication that 'she and Pinault support their finances separate' and that 'there's nary prenuptial statement dividing assets.'

'I support a batch of nan aspects of my life and myself,' said nan Coatzacoalcos, Mexico-born beauty, who has been seen enjoying her yacht successful caller days. 'I person nan unit to make a definite magnitude of money, and I for illustration it. 

'And now, I decided, I want to make more.'

Hayek said that pursuing her marital national to Pinault - whose institution owns luxury brands specified arsenic Gucci and Saint Laurent - 'All group wanted to talk to maine astir was money.'

She added, 'To me, nan excitement astir having a batch of money was that I didn't person to deliberation astir money.'

Hayek said she was besides approached by able group who wanted to link pinch her: 'Strangers coming to maine that aren’t moreover friends, but they deliberation we should beryllium friends because they’re rich, too.'

Hayek, who successful caller years has been seen connected Black Mirror and successful Angelina Jolie's movie Without Blood, addressed skeptics of her marriage successful a February 2021 quality connected nan Armchair Expert podcast pinch Dax Shepard.

Shepard said of Pinault: 'Can I opportunity thing astir your husband, really quick? What a f***ing nice, fun, generous, bully lukewarm feline ... I'm gonna beryllium honest, I didn't cognize who he was, I conscionable heard aliases possibly publication successful a header that you had joined a really rich | feline - possibly that's why she joined him.'

Hayek said, 'You know, erstwhile I joined him, everybody said, "Oh, it's arranged marriage, she joined him for nan money."

'I'm like, "Yeah, whatever, b**** - deliberation what you want." Fifteen years together, and we are beardown successful love. And I don't moreover get offended, I'm like, "Yeah, whatever."'

Hayek added of her spouse, 'You cognize nan point is that successful pictures you cannot statesman to conjecture nan magic successful him - he's made maine go a overmuch amended person, and turn successful specified a good, patient way.'

On nan podcast, Hayek said she feels 'there is simply a favoritism besides to rich | men,' arsenic group mightiness person misconceptions that they 'might not beryllium a bully person, mightiness beryllium personification materialistic,' and 'might beryllium personification that doesn't person values.'

Hayek said successful nan chat pinch nan outlet: 'Nothing successful my life is emblematic ... I'm passionate but I'm a strategist.'

She said that she 'became nan champion type of' herself erstwhile she was successful her 20s, during a clip she had to support her family erstwhile they were going done a unsmooth clip financially.

In an adjacent video question and reply Tuesday, Hayek opened up astir her improbable profession path, saying that she has bucked Tinseltown trends by continuing to show up. 

'What has opened nan doors for maine has been my tenacity [and] my consistency - I conscionable won't spell away,' she said. 'And it's funny, conscionable erstwhile they told maine that aft a definite age, your profession is complete - that's erstwhile my profession started getting better. They said, "You extremity moving astatine 40 successful Hollywood," and present we are 58, I’m still working.'