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Salma Hayek Jiménez was born in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico. Her younger brother, Sami (born 1972), is a furniture designer.[9] Her mother, Diana Jiménez Medina, is an opera singer and talent scout. Her father, Sami Hayek Domínguez, is an oil company executive and owner of an industrial-equipment firm,[10] who once ran for mayor of Coatzacoalcos.[11][12] Her father is Mexican of Christian Lebanese descent,[13] with his family being from the city of Baabdat, Lebanon, a city Salma and her father visited in 2015 to promote her movie Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet.[14][15][16][17] Her mother is Mexican of Spanish descent. 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.[18]
In an interview in 2015 with Un Nuevo Día while visiting Madrid, Hayek described herself as fifty-percent Lebanese and fifty-percent Spanish, stating that her grandmother/maternal great-grandparents were from Spain.[13][19][20][21] Raised in a wealthy, devout Roman Catholic[22] family, she was sent to the Academy of the Sacred Heart in Grand Coteau, Louisiana, at the age of twelve.[13] In school, she was diagnosed with dyslexia.[23] She attended university in Mexico City, where she studied International Relations at the Universidad Iberoamericana.[13]