Salma Hayek, 59, was relentlessly teased by her 18-year-old daughter Valentina in a charming display of their repartee, during a joint appearance on the Instagram series CARversations.
Hayek shares Valentina, whose full name is Valentina Paloma Pinault, with her husband, French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, whom she has been married to since 2009.
As the teenager emerges into the spotlight, she has begun training her world-famous mother in the intricacies of contemporary public life, taking particularly scathing aim at Hayek's Instagram bio, a lengthy stream of emojis reminiscent of tweets by Cher, 80.
'That's gotta go,' Valentina said. 'I remember the first time I saw your bio, I thought: "She put her phone in her pocket and didn't realize that she was on: 'edit the bio.'"'
'I am very much about images so I love my emojis,' the From Dusk Till Dawn actress insisted, leaving her daughter decidedly unimpressed. Valentina wondered aloud why her mother had selected such apparently random icons as a duck, a shooting star, a tiger and a lollipop.
Teen account and curated content
Hayek explained that Valentina had used Instagram via a private 'teen account' that offered 'protections' and curated 'age-appropriate content for you to create your own style and taste because you're so artistic, but still within the right things for your age.'
Vintage shopping trip
The pair were also filmed going vintage shopping, giving Valentina a chance to express her disdain for her mother's splashy taste in florals and leopard prints. Hayek eventually gave up and pre-emptively asked, 'But this is a no-no, right?' about one dress.
'That's always gonna be a no. It has pockets, Mom,' Valentina confirmed.
'I have a daughter who knows she can say anything to me,' Hayek said in a new interview promoting the CARversations episode in Elle. 'She doesn't have to hold back or feel like she's going to be judged. She can tease me, and she can just be herself. She's fun... It's so nice to do activities together, have a good time together, and be girls together.'
'There's very little that can surprise me about what comes out of Valentina's mouth, because by now I'm used to hearing the unexpected over and over,' Hayek added. 'She's always surprising me, so I'm not surprised that I'm always surprised.'
Blocking accounts and ignoring messages
In her attempts to instruct her mother on the finer points of using Instagram, Valentina 'started blocking accounts,' Hayek explained.
'I was like: "Why am I getting this?" And she said: "Oh, no, no, no. Mom, let's block this, this, this, and that." She was protecting me because I didn't know how to do it,' Hayek said.
Hayek has also had to erect one guardrail of her own, refusing to check her direct messages despite Valentina 'trying to teach me how' to do so. 'Not checking them is my own way of protecting myself and limiting the time I spend on Instagram. The few people who need me know they have to text me; otherwise, you can stay there forever,' she said.
Hayek, who was 41 when her daughter was born, acknowledged that she 'had her quite late, and I wasn't tech-savvy even before.' She added: 'I got into Instagram quite late too, so for me, it was a completely new universe, and one that I actually learned to enjoy a lot.'
