Salma Hayek calls husband the ‘perfect man’

Now that she’s found the love of her life, Salma Hayek wishes she had been more patient when it came to dating.

“I wish I knew [when I was younger] that I was going to fall crazy in love with the perfect man,” the “Everly” star, 48, recently told Allure magazine. “I was so worried, and I dated some people I shouldn’t have dated.”

In 2009, the actress wed French billionaire François-Henri Pinault, but before meeting the CEO of French fashion conglomerate Kering, she went through her fair share of duds who she convinced herself were worth her time.

“You get desperate, and you start seeing wonderful things in, like, the wrong guys. I also found some pretty good guys,” she told the magazine. “But I wish I could say to myself, ‘Hey, chill out. You’re going to get a great husband that’s going to adore you.’ I would have saved myself a lot of personal drama.”

Now Hayek finds herself with a partner she hates to be away from — “I always miss him when we’re not together” — and who pushes her, like when he implored her to keep working even after she gave birth to the couple’s daughter, 7-year-old Valentina Paloma Pinault.

“I said, ‘I don’t think I want to work anymore,'” she recalled. “And it was François who said, ‘Oh, no, you’re going back to work.’ And I said, ‘I don’t want to.’ ‘Well, you have to. We’re not putting up with some lazy girl in the house. That’s not who I married.’”

Pinault also didn’t want to be robbed of seeing one of his favorite actresses’ work.

“And then he said something so beautiful,” she continued. “’I don’t want to be deprived of your work. I want to watch it, too. And the world has not seen the best of you yet. So you cannot stop until some of that is put out.’”