Women Affairs

Hollywood mom Salma Hayek is lending her star power to a UNICEF campaign to eradicate tetanus in mothers and babies around the world within four years. Hayek, a paid spokeswoman for Pampers' tetanus vaccine program, recounted her experiences during a recent trip to the West African nation of Sierra Leone, where she met with tetanus victims. "One of the things that was very moving about the trip was to see 15-year-old girls, really young, taking responsibility for their lives and their children before they're born by saying 'I am going to be healthy, I am going to take this vaccination,'" she told journalists at the United Nations on Thursday. "I had no idea how much this was going to really personally move me," added the 42-year-old star of films including Desperado and Frida. The Pampers-UNICEF partnership has already provided over 50 million vaccines to mothers and babies in developing countries, where tetanus kills up to 140,000 infants and 30,00...

Salma Hayek and partner Francois-Henri Pinault have become the proud parents of a baby girl. The actress and Pinault have named their daughter Valentina Paloma Pinault. After the birth, Hayek’s publicist confirmed the news of Hayek’s new bundle of joy, but apart from saying that both mom and daughter were doing well, no other information was revealed. "Mother and child are doing well," TMZ quoted the publicist, as saying. This is the first child for Hayek. Her French fiance however has plenty of experience in the parenting department, for he already has two kids.