Salma Hayek Hits Back at Accusations She Married Billionaire François-Henri Pinault for Money.

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[chibinaomidy]

In Salma's defense, she didn't grow up poor either. She may be from Mexico, but her dad is oil money which led to a pretty comfortable lifestyle.

[kimbana]

"She may be from México"? wtf do you mean? i even had to get off my donkey and put my sombrero to reply to this racist comment.

[sarahvma]

Not defending the OP, but I feel like the implication that Hayek is a gold digger is related to people's racist misconceptions about Mexico generally.

[triviagogo29]

nah, the conception Hayek is a gold digger is the fact she's a hot as fuck woman married to an old as fuck man who also happens to be France's richest person.

i mean, y'all can problematize that and claim it stems from misogyny etc (and it does in part, obviously) but it's lol-worthy y'all think this "gold digger" chattering is limited to white people and there aren't mexicans who also think that. so lol, this is still a weird ass excuse.

[sarahvma]

Yeah, fair.

[elevatorshaker]

He's four years older than she is.

[triviagogo29]

most ppl aren’t googling his age, they’re just looking at pics of them together and seeing an old-looking billionaire and a hot woman

[slinkydinks]

I literally just googled this and was flabbergasted. White men truly age like fine milk D:

[fernandocolunga]

we're all poor, unless you make it through the rigorous telenovela academy training and then you can live out your best life on telemundo

[caramelaffair]

Omg I would so need a tell all documentary about this

[yim_yames]

Didn't you know? We all live in pueblos and use burros as transportation.

[chibinaomidy]

I really appreciate your calling me out on my thoughtless wording. I can see how it can read as racist, because you're totally right, it is racist when I provide zero context therefore I'm terribly sorry for half-baked comment.

I know it won't be of much consequence, but what I meant by "She may be from Mexico" is that people assume that because you're from a foreign country, you can't be educated, affluent, or have your own wealth. Instead, I've seen constantly that people think immigrants are grifting on other people's wealth.

I fucked up and I'll be more mindful to fully articulate my thoughts moving forward so that I don't sound ignorant like I did up there. I may be from "el rancho" in Mexico, but am not immune to saying some dumb microagressive things. I'll do better Thanks for your patience!

[crownless__]

what type of Justin Timberlake apology is this??

jk bb, I'm just messing with you :P

[kimbana]

I get you, np.

[nikuru]

"She may be from Mexico, but her dad is oil money"

Why?
Is there some misconception that Mexico doesn't have oil?
They are #17 of 98 in the world in oil*, but even if they had no oil at all her being from Mexico is still 100% irrelevant to this conversation.

*according to the internet.

[sabrina54]

I was LITERALLY not even 1min ago talking about the constant daily microaggressions we as Black and PoC have to deal with both online and irl and while I'm talking I randomly open this post and here's a great example.