Salma Hayek Is a Grandma! Actress Shares the First Photos with Her Grandson and Reveals His Name: ‘Cannot Love Him More’
Salma Hayek Is a Grandma! Actress Shares the First Photos with Her Grandson and Reveals His Name: ‘Cannot Love Him More’
Georgia SlaterMon, August 17, 2026 at 7:01 PM UTC
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Salma Hayek with her son and grandson.Credit: Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck/Instagram/Salma Hayek/Instagram -
Salma Hayek became a grandmother after her stepson François Pinault Jr. welcomed a baby boy with his wife Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck
Hayek shared a video holding her grandson François, whom she affectionately calls “Panchito,” on Instagram
The actress has embraced being a stepmom since marrying François-Henri Pinault in 2009 and cherishes her blended family
Salma Hayek is officially a grandma!
The actress, 59, recently became a grandma after her stepson, François Pinault Jr., welcomed his first baby with his wife, Lara Cosima Henckel von Donnersmarck. Hayek shares daughter Valentina, 18, with her husband, François-Henri Pinault, 64, and is also stepmom to Pinault’s three children, Mathilde, 25, François, 38, and Augustin, 19.
On Sunday, Aug. 16, Hayek shared a sweet video on Instagram holding her grandson and speaking to him in Spanish. In the caption, the Grown Ups star revealed that the baby’s name is also François, but she plans to call him “Panchito.”
“We are blessed to welcome the fourth living generation of Francois’. Although I will call him Panchito. He seems to love it, and I cannot love him more,” she shared.
Last week, Henckel von Donnersmarck shared additional photos with her baby boy, including another snap of Hayek with her grandson.
“My husband (the world’s coolest françois) and our son( the world’s cutest françois) … our first month as parents🐣,” she captioned her Instagram post.
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The Eternals actress became a stepparent when she married Pinault in 2009. Hayek, who welcomed daughter Valentina with Pinault in 2007, immediately took to her new role as a stepmother.“I always wanted to have a lot of children, and I was not able to. My body, as a miracle, had one,” she told Red magazine in 2017. “The huge blessing I’ve had is that my husband has three other children. So I have four. And they are all so different.”
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Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault attend the 2024 Kering Women In Motion Awards And Cannes Film Festival Presidential Dinner during The 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Place de la Castre on May 18, 2024, in Cannes, France.Credit: Hoda Davaine/Dave Benett/Getty
Hayek told PEOPLE in 2015 that it was her husband who encouraged her to continue doing what she loves after welcoming her daughter. She is thankful for that decision today and feels being a working mom teaches her daughter a valuable lesson.
“It’s important that your kids understand that they are the most important thing but it’s not all about them,” she said at the time. “You set an example that you are also your own person and you have to continue to grow in the field that you are working.”
While she agreed with her husband that going back to work was the right choice, she told PEOPLE there is one thing the two don’t see eye to eye on: who Valentina most takes after.
“I think she is more like him and he thinks she is more like me,” Hayek said. “I think she looks like him and he thinks she looks like me.”
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