Salma Hayek is defending her longterm relationship with billionaire François-Henri Pinault.
The actress, 54, addressed speculation she married Pinault, 58, for his money in the latest episode of Dax Shepard‘s Armchair Expert podcast.
“And you know when I married him, everybody said, ‘Oh, it’s an arranged marriage, she married him for the money. I’m like, ‘Yeah, whatever, bitch.’ Think what you want: 15 years together, and we are strong in love,” Hayek said.

Hayek gushed about her relationship with Pinault after tying the knot in 2009. The couple share a 13-year-old daughter Valentina.
“You know, the thing is that in pictures you cannot begin to guess the magic in him. He’s made me become a much better person, and grow in such a good, healthy way,” she said.

“Immediately you think because somebody’s rich, [they] might not be a good person. Might be somebody materialistic, might be somebody that doesn’t have values, might be somebody that is even stupid or that doesn’t deserve it … In order to have a lot of money, you did it the wrong way, there is all this preconception,” she said.
“And I had that by the way. It was the last thing I wanted — it was not my type at all. And I came in with the preconceptions and he [melted] them all away.”

Pinault is the CEO of luxury good corporation Kering and President of group holding company Groupe Artemis. His net worth is estimated to be over US$45.5 billion dollars (approx. $58.6 billion).