Salma also spoke about how life and the way people treated her changed after marrying François-Henri. "To me, the excitement about having a lot of money was that I didn't have to think about money, and it turned out all people wanted to talk to me about was money."

"Strangers coming to me that aren't even friends, but they think we should be friends because they're rich, too." During a previous appearance on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast back in 2021, Salma clapped back at those who assumed that she married the Kering CEO for money.

"I didn’t know who he was," Dax first said. "I just heard or maybe read in a headline that you had married a very rich guy, maybe that's why she married him. I don't know. I meet him and I'm like, 'This guy is so foxy, the confidence, his eyes, he's so good looking and charming.'"

The Frida star gushed that her husband made her a "much better person," and helped her "grow in such a good, healthy way," adding: "When I married him, everybody said, 'It's an arranged marriage, she's marrying him for the money'. I'm like, 'Yeah, whatever [expletive], think what you want'. Fifteen years together and we are strong in love and I don't even get offended."

The actress, 58, has been married to the French businessman, 62, since 2009, with the couple tying the knot on Valentine's Day in Paris. They also share one child, daughter Valentina Pinault, now 17.

In a recent conversation with WSJ. Magazine for their Entertainment and Altruism issue, Salma spoke openly about keeping her finances separate from her billionaire husband's, and the pressure that came with marrying into immense amounts of money.