We've heard interesting stories about brides walking down the aisle, how they felt, and their reactions before saying I DO to forever. Like every other bride, Salma Hayek developed cold feet before getting married, revealing she didn't even know she was getting married to her husband.
Keep reading for all the details.
According to the actress, the courthouse ceremony was an intervention staged by her family, as she had no ideas she was getting married that day.
"I had a phobia of the marriage thing," Hayek revealed to Glamour for their February cover story. I didn't even know I was getting married that day. It was like an intervention."
She continued that her family took her to court. "My parents, my brother, they were all ganging up on me."
Hayek married French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault on Valentine's day in 2009, which means they'll be celebrating their 14th anniversary on the 14th of this month. How sweet!
The pair welcomed their daughter, Valentina, two years before they got married in 2007. She's currently 15 years old.
She refuted claims that she opted for a court wedding out of simplicity and stated it was because they dragged her there. She revealed she was nervous during the process, but lunch at his parent's house courtesy of her "most tasteful" mother-in-law calmed her.
She elaborated on the court wedding on the Kelly Clarkson Show on Thursday and revealed she has since married Pinault four times and has never been divorced. The weddings were because new ideas kept springing up, and she felt inspired.
Hayek sure doesn't like mediocrity as she revealed that she threw a third wedding ceremony because she didn't like her cake at the second. The fourth time, however, was a surprise by the couple's family, and they returned to the location of the third ceremony to renew their vows surrounded by their loved ones.
The actress had a strange but effective advice for married people, and it's about simple things.
"Boredom is underestimated, I didn't understand this for a long time. Also, it helps that we met each other later in our lives. It's okay just to do nothing and be together; sometimes sharing a space and doing your own thing in silence, with connectivity and thoughtfulness—'Can I bring you a cup of tea?'—is enough. It's little simple things."
She spoke about the beauty of getting older with someone and how the simplicity in her marriage has helped her age gracefully against every thought that growing older meant doom for love or her strength.
"...I thought getting older maybe meant that you're not in love anymore; I'm in love. I don't feel that I lost my flexibility or my agility or even my strength. I do have to say that I have found it beautiful, getting older with someone."
The 56-year-old described her work with Channing Tatum on the third installment of the Magic Mike franchise as exceptionally fulfilling. The project was written by Reid Carolin and directed by Steven Soderbergh.
"They're the kind of new type of man that really wants to understand—'What's the best way to be a man? What's the best way to support women?' I felt so heard, seen, and respected."
