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Salma Hayek Marries Francois-Henri Pinault

Elizabeth Fairview — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:54:02 +0000

After getting some press for breastfeeding a hungry baby in Sierra Leone, Salma Hayek abruptly married the father of her child, French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault.

The couple married on Valentine's Day at the town hall in the Saint Germain area of Paris.

Their daughter, Valentina Paloma Pinault, was born in Los Angeles in September 2007. Hayek and Pinault were engaged but had called off their wedding in July of 2008. They recently reconciled.

Salma Hayek Breastfeeding Hungry Baby in Sierra Leone

Elizabeth Fairview — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:09:01 +0000

If anyone can use their breasts to fight world hunger, it's Salma Hayek. In a touching new bit of news, Hayek apparently breastfed a hungry baby while visiting a Sierra Leone hospital during a humanitarian mission for UNICEF. Here's the heartwarming Salma Hayek breastfeeding video.

"The baby was perfectly healthy, but the mother did not have any milk," Hayek later told USA Today. "He was very hungry – I was weaning my daughter Valentina, but I still had a lot of milk, so I breastfed the baby."

"You should have seen his eyes," she said. "When he felt the nourishment, he immediately stopped crying."

Hayek was in Sierra Leone, which has the world's highest child mortality rates, to help mothers and their children fight tetanus.

Salma Hayek Calls Off Engagement to Francois Henri Pinault

Michelle da Silva — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:55:41 +0000

Actress Salma Hayek and French billionaire Francois Henri Pinault have reportedly called off their engagement.

"We are sad to announce the engagement of Salma Hayek and Francois Henri Pinault has been canceled," a rep for Hayek said in a statement to USA Today. "There will be no further comment."

The two had been dating since meeting in Venice in May 2006 and had been engaged since last March. The couple have a daughter, Valentina, born last September.

"Do you think we are going to get married?" Hayek asked in the April issue of Glamour magazine. "Probably. Will it make a difference? I hope not.

"You want to grow old with someone, you want to have a partner and to have children – we have all those things," Hayek continued. "Some people need the commitment. Maybe we'll just make the party!"