As her daughter turns 17, Salma Hayek is feeling bittersweet!
In an Instagram post celebrating daughter Valentina’s birthday on Saturday, Sept. 21, the actress, 58, shared some candy recollections with the now-17-year-old, together with a message about marking her “final birthday at house.”
All through the submit, Hayek confirmed movies and images of Valentina, whom she shares together with her husband, French businessman François-Henri Pinault, from early childhood on.
In a single video, she sits within the backseat of a automotive with cat-like face paint on, and in one other, she wears a decent pink hat and goggles.
Plus, in an added element, every a part of the tribute is framed in an identical border that reads “Completely happy birthday Vale” in each English and Spanish — the teenager is trilingual, and in addition speaks French — together with a number of hearts.
Within the caption, Hayek rounded out the birthday tribute with a heartfelt message for Valentina, who — in line with the actress — shall be transferring away from her mother and father earlier than subsequent September rolls round.
“My child final birthday at house (for now),” Hayek wrote, including that she is “already having separation anxiousness.”
“She makes me snigger all day, teaches me so many issues, retains me motivated, evokes in so some ways makes me wish to dance sing and cook dinner and makes life so thrilling,” she stated. “I like you sooooooooo a lot mi Vale 💋🙏♥️.”
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All through the years, the Eternals star (who can also be a stepparent to Pinault’s daughter Mathilde and sons François and Augustin) has introduced Valentina to several of her premieres and different star-studded occasions, like the Oscars. In 2022, the mother-daughter duo even appeared collectively in Vogue Mexico.
In her interview for the Might 2022 concern, Valentina revealed that she hopes to have a profession arc that displays her mother’s.
“I would like various things, however I virtually at all times transfer between 4,” she advised the journal, as translated into English. “I want to be an actress after which a director as a result of that’s what is sensible in my head.”
“Additionally, I feel it have to be tougher to be a director if you do not have expertise on the opposite aspect of the display screen, that might assist directing,” she added.
Elsewhere within the interview, Valentina shared that one other one among her passions is make-up.
“I like make-up, I’ve numerous it, however I do not do it to be very fairly or as a result of I wish to take away imperfections,” she advised Vogue Mexico. “Typically I do not wish to apply concealer as a result of I feel darkish circles add one thing else. I wish to put on make-up in a lot of colours and, I do not know, I wish to discover it.”