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NEED TO KNOW
- Salma Hayek revealed she’s close to Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ four children
- The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model revealed she calls herself the children’s “Tía Salma”
- Hayek previously worked with Lively on Savages and Reynolds on The Hitman’s Bodyguard and its sequel
Salma Hayek Pinault is opening up about her close relationship with her longtime friends Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ kids.
The actress, 58, spoke with E! News at the 2025 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue launch party and shared a little about her bond with Lively and Reynolds’ four kids, saying, “I’m close to their kids.”
Explaining that she’s been friends with Lively and Reynolds for “a very long time,” Hayek Pinault added that she recently spent some time with the family. “I got a chance to go play with them. They got to see their Tía Salma,” she told the outlet.
She even shared that Lively and Reynolds’ kids speak a little Spanish. “Especially the little one,” Hayek Pinault said. “They understand Spanish, and they’re lovely.”
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BACKGRID
Lively and Reynolds share four kids together — daughters James, 10, Inez, 8, and Betty, 5, as well as son Olin, 2.
Lively, 37, and Hayek Pinault both starred in the 2012 crime thriller Savages, and Reynolds, 48, worked with Hayek Pinault on 2017’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard and its 2021 sequel Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. She has spent quality time with the couple over the years, making dinner for them and having a “girls night” in 2016.
Earlier this week, the couple was spotted in New York City walking and smiling with Lively’s sister Robyn, 53, plus Hayek Pinault, whose Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover debuted earlier the same day. The group got dinner at RH Rooftop Restaurant.
Back in 2017, Hayek Pinault praised Lively during a speech at Variety‘s Power of Women luncheon.
“I still have never met anybody that at such an early stage in their life had such a sense of self, so much courage,” she said about the mom of four at the time. “I mean, I saw her take on one of the biggest bullies in this industry that everybody feared. She was like, ‘Bring it on, baby. What’s your problem?’ She knows exactly what she wants.”
Hayek Pinault is mom to 17-year-old daughter Valentina, whom she shares with husband François-Henri Pinault. She is stepmom to his three older kids – François, Mathilde and Augustin.
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While appearing on the Today show earlier this week to discuss her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover, Hayek Pinault admitted that her daughter had “no idea” what the cover was.
“My daughter had no idea what this cover was,” she shared on Today. “You know, it’s another generation.”
Despite her daughter not being invested in this historic moment, Hayek Pinault shared that she grew up admiring the famed covers.
“I still can’t believe it,” she said of the accomplishment. “I remember when I was young and hot, I used to look at this magazine. I wanted to see who was the new gorgeous model, the new girl of the moment.”
