Salma Hayek’s daughter Valentina says acting and directing is in her ‘blood’
Salma Hayek is a proud mom to her daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault.
Over the years, the Oscar-nominated star has shared special moments and memories with her fans.
For her daughter’s sweet 16 in 2023, Hayek shared a video montage filled with videos and photos of Valentina on birthdays through the years, praising all her wonderful qualities and how she’s grown up.
“Today my baby turns 16 and my heart is bursting with love, pride and gratitude for the day you were born. Keep shining your beautiful light shamelessly my lovely girl, even if it blinds the fools,” Hayek — who shares Valentina with husband François-Henri Pinault — wrote on her Instagram.
The “Frida” star continued by thanking Valentina for “filling our lives with laughter and joy with your wicked wit. For challenging us to grow with your depth. And for inspiring us with your soulfulness every day.”
Here’s everything Hayek has shared about her daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault.
Valentina was born in 2007
Hayek and then-fiancé, now-husband François-Henri Pinault welcomed a child together on Sept. 21, 2007.
Valentina is Hayek’s only child, while Pinault is father to three older children: François, Mathilde and Augustin.
“I became a mother very late,” Hayek told Vogue Mexico in 2022. “I did it once I found my partner for life, that I had a stable career, but I wanted a (child) so badly that nothing else mattered.”
She wants to be in the entertainment industry
In an interview with TODAY on Oct. 29, the actor shared that her 17-year-old knows that acting and directing is in her “blood.”
“She’s going her own way,” Hayek told Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb. “She wants to study political science and then as a minor, film because she wants to be a director. But she doesnt want to study to be a director; she said ‘It’s in my blood. I want to spend the time learning something more complicated.’”
The proud mom added, “I love it.”
Valentina previously shared in a cover story with Vogue Mexico that she would like to act or direct.
“I would like to be an actress and then a director because that’s what makes sense in my head,” she told the magazine in Spanish. “Also, I think it might be harder to be a director if you don’t have experience on the other side of the screen, that could help directing.”
She is a Lana del Rey fan
In a video for Vogue Mexico, both Hayek and Valentina shared what was in their bag. Valentina had a Lana del Rey candle.
“I pray to Lana del Rey,” she said in Spanish, with Hayek adding, “When she’s inspired by music.”
Valentina added that she’s also a fan of Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks, as well as Kanye West’s music.
She loves photography
In that same interview, she had a film camera, sharing that one of her passions is to take photos.
“I take photos of my friends with disposable cameras,” she said in Spanish. “I love photography. I take photography classes at school and I love taking pictures of my friends.”
She borrows — and sometimes steals — her mother’s clothes and purses
In their Vogue Mexico interview, Hayek called out her daughter for taking her Yves Saint Laurent purse. Valentina also had some of her mom’s makeup in there.
“I can see in that purse everything I can’t find in my drawers,” Hayek said.
A special moment happened at the 2023 Oscars when Valentina wore her mom’s dress from 1997.
The strapless red Isaac Mizrahi dress was first worn by the actor for the Fire and Ice Ball, 10 years before Valentina was born.
