Salma Hayek: "I Was Born To Be A Wife & A Mother"

Mexican actress Salma Hayek gets gorgeous on the latest cover of Latina. The 45-year-old bombshell, who this month voices the love interest Kitty Softpaws in the animated feature Puss in Boots (in theaters October 28), opens up to Latina about how she found success in love and life on her own terms.

On waiting patiently to become a mother and wife: “To be your own woman, you have to question who you really are and what it is you really want – and you have to have a level of acceptance of what you can do. The things I expected of myself when I was 20 did not happen, or did not happen the way I imagined they would, and it’s okay. Let’s just take this one day at a time and do the best that I can and be grateful for the things I do have.”

On her husband François-Henri Pinault: “I found a man better than any man I could ever in my life imagine existed. He found me, actually. I wasn’t even looking.”

On what’s next: “I’m in a very comfortable position because, [even] if I never worked again and am just a housewife and a mother, I’m happy. I really am. I was born to be a wife and a mother.”

Continue reading the interview with Salma at Latina.