An Empowered Woman in Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek has a special thing for women. She sees them not as competition but as empowered individual. She was fully aware of how women suffered during the early times and this has somehow motivated and admired her of every woman she encounters. She feels an instant connection among them and treated them as sisters and part of a family.
This has given Hayek the opportunity to be the Avon spokesperson in 1995 and even supported the Violence against Women Act. Hayek with her heart going out to every woman all around the globe despising violence donated $25,000 to her hometown. Its main beneficiaries are battered women who wanted to escape the violence they’ve experienced in their lives. Although, Salma Hayek is not a victim of any domestic violence, she served as an inspiration to these women.
In her whole acting career as a Hollywood star Salma has portrayed different roles of empowered women able to conquer the world. She played Teresa as her first venture in Mexican soap operas, she acted as Rosa in Mi Vida Loca, Carolina in Desperados, Isabel Fuentes in Fools Rush In, Frida Kahlo in the movie Frida and one of her latest movie Bandidas shown in 2006 as Sara Sandoval which co starred \Penelope Cruz. Bandidas is a western comedy film about two women aiming to battle with a callous enforcer which was a threat to their hometown. This film is another kind of women empowerment in the many roles Hayek has portrayed.
Aside from doing lead roles in movies and television, Salma Hayek has also managed to be the co producer of the film Frida. In that same year she was also able to direct and produced the movie, The Maldonado Miracle granting her a Daytime Emmy Award. Movies were not only the ones she gave focus on as she directed a music video entitled “Te Amo Corazon”. She also became an executive producer for “Ugly Betty”, a popular TV series in the United States. Salma Hayek is also a good singer as she performed a song for the movie Desperado with the song “Quedate Aqui”, in the movie Frida with the song “La Bruja” and “Siente mi amor” in the movie Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
Although she wasn’t able to get married and raise a whole family of her own, Salma celebrated her motherhood when her first born daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault was born. Hayek 4o, when she gave birth with baby Valentina confessed that she was expecting a baby boy. However, this doesn’t bring the beautiful actress any regrets as she was happily contented with her baby girl. Along with her pregnancy she also confided that she suffered from Diabetes and gained a lot of weight. But this does not gave her discouragement as she would want the baby to be healthy.
With all the success in both her career and personal life as a mother to Valentina, Salma Hayek truly embodied an empowered woman just like in any roles she dares to portray.