Editing Salma Hayek (section)

==Early life==
Salma Hayek was born in [[Coatzacoalcos]], Veracruz, Mexico.<ref name="Sami">{{cite magazine|title=Sami Hayek From Hollywood to Mexico, Salma's Little Brother Wins Fans with His Hip Designs|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20146328,00.html|magazine=People|access-date=October 7, 2013|archive-date=March 3, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303205923/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20146328,00.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her father, Sami Hayek Domínguez, is of [[Lebanese Republic|Lebanese]] descent.<ref name="actors">{{cite episode|series=Inside the Actors Studio |title=Salma Hayek |url=http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Salma_Hayek |network=Bravo |airdate=December 5, 2004 |season=11 |number=1105 |credits=Lipton, James (host) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828165111/http://www.bravotv.com/Inside_the_Actors_Studio/guest/Salma_Hayek |archive-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref> His ancestors hail from the city of [[Baabdat]], Lebanon, a city Salma and her father visited in 2015 to promote her movie ''[[Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet]]''.<ref name="TheProphet">{{cite news|url=http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN0NI16W20150427?irpc=932|title=Salma Hayek pays tribute to Lebanese roots with film of 'The Prophet'|newspaper=Reuters|date=April 27, 2015|access-date=January 5, 2016|last1=Westall|first1=Sylvia|archive-date=April 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418172556/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUKKBN0NI16W20150427|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.helloonline.com/profiles/salma-hayek/|title=Salma Hayek|date=October 8, 2009 |access-date=January 5, 2016|archive-date=January 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126233509/http://www.helloonline.com/profiles/salma-hayek/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=sami>{{cite news|publisher=Revista El Heraldo de Veracruz |title=SAMI HAYEK DOMÍNGUEZ |url=http://www.revistaelheraldodeveracruz.com.mx/page25.html |quote=Mi apellido es de origen libanés, mi padre llegó aquí a principios del siglo pasado con la idea de radicar en los Estados Unidos, pues había algunos problemas en su país, entonces optó por venir a México...Posteriormente comenzó a viajar al sur hasta instalarse en Agua Dulce, donde se casó con mi señora madre...("My surname is of Lebanese origin, my father came here early last century with the idea of settling in the United States, having some problems at home, then chose to come to Mexico... Then he began to travel south to settle in Agua Dulce (Veracruz), where he married my lady mother.") |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118063629/http://www.revistaelheraldodeveracruz.com.mx/page25.html |archive-date=January 18, 2014}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation|last=Husam sam Asi|title=Salma Hayek criticises Lebanon's treatment of women – Interview|date=September 3, 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt25rR0rzdA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/rt25rR0rzdA| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|access-date=April 3, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He owns an industrial-equipment firm and is an oil company executive in Mexico;<ref name="Sami"/> he once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos.<ref>Love, Bret (March 2003). "The Beautiful Mind of Salma Hayek". ''Razor Magazine'', p. 48</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/17/books/footlights.html|work=The New York Times|date=September 17, 1997|access-date=May 23, 2010|title=Footlights|archive-date=September 4, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100904023112/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/17/books/footlights.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, is an opera singer and talent scout; she is of [[Spaniards in Mexico|Spanish descent]]. While visiting [[Madrid]] in an interview in 2015 with ''[[Un Nuevo Día]]'', Hayek described herself as fifty-percent Lebanese and fifty-percent Spanish saying that her grandmother/maternal great-grandparents were from Spain.<ref name="actors"/><ref name=AVmedia>{{cite AV media|url=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I2YDVSTO1-8 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/I2YDVSTO1-8| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|title=La reina Letizia le hizo reconocimiento a Salma Hayek en España – Un Nuevo Día – Telemundo|date=April 23, 2015|access-date=January 5, 2016|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=14514423|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080603193139/http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=14514423|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 3, 2008|title=Salma Hayek Biography|publisher=Biography.com|access-date=May 10, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Salma Hayek Biography|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000161/bio|publisher=imdb|access-date=March 7, 2015|archive-date=February 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150228205549/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000161/bio|url-status=live}}</ref> Her younger brother, Sami, is a furniture designer.<ref name="Sami"/>

Hayek was raised in a wealthy, devout [[Catholic Church in Mexico|Catholic]] family,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/salma-hayek/|title=Salma Hayek|work=[[Hello! (magazine)|Hello!]]|quote=...raised in a conservative Catholic family...|access-date=June 24, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100515002225/http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/salma-hayek/|archive-date=May 15, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> and at age 12 opted to study at the [[Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau|Academy of the Sacred Heart]] in [[Grand Coteau, Louisiana]].<ref name="actors" /> In school, she was diagnosed with [[dyslexia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/salma-hayek-mom-on-a-mission |title=Salma Hayek: Mom on a Mission |first=Gina |last=Shaw |work=WebMD Magazine |page=4 |publisher=[[WebMD]], LLC |date=March–April 2009 |access-date=July 25, 2016 |quote=I'm really a fast learner. I always was, which is maybe why in high school they didn't realize I had dyslexia. I skipped years without studying too much |archive-date=September 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912011239/http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/salma-hayek-mom-on-a-mission |url-status=live }}</ref> She attended university at the [[Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México|Universidad Iberoamericana]] studying [[international relations]].<ref name="actors" /> In a 2011 interview with ''V'' magazine, Hayek mentioned that she was once an illegal immigrant in the United States, although it was not for a long period of time.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://abc7.com/archive/7835039/|title=Salma Hayek: 'I was an illegal immigrant'|work=ABC7 Los Angeles|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016210247/http://abc7.com/archive/7835039/|archive-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref>