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Salma Hayek and French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault — the father of her daughter Valentina — have called off their engagement.

“We are sad to announce the engagement of Salma Hayek and Francois-Henri Pinault has been canceled,” Hayek’s rep said in a statement to USA Today. “There will be no further comment.”

Hayek, 41, told the April issue of Glamour that she didn’t feel the “need” to get married.

“Do I think we are going to get married? Probably. Will it make a difference? I hope not,” she said.

“You want to grow old with someone, you want to have a partner and to have children — we have all those things,” Hayek added. “Some people need the commitment. Maybe we’ll just make the party!”

he two kept their relationship low-key since meeting in Venice in May 2006.

They revealed they were expecting around the same time they announced their engagement last March.

Valentina was born last September.

Initially, Hayek said she “wanted a boy.”

“Probably because I was afraid,” she told Glamour. “I think women suffer a bit more than boys, and there is always conflict between mothers and daughters.”

“Now that she’s here, I’m so happy she’s a girl,” Hayek said. “And I can’t imagine there ever being conflict between us, because I’m in a state of innocence where I love everything she does.”

Valentina is the first child for Hayek; Pinault, 45, has two children from a previous marriage.

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The very first photo of VALENTINA PALOMA PINAULT — SALMA HAYEK’s adorable baby daughter. The actress and her fiance FRANCOIS-HENRI PINAULT welcomed Valentina into the world this past September.

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Actress Salma Hayek, 41, has given birth to her first child, a little girl named Valentina Paloma Pinault, a rep for the actress has confirmed.

“Mother and child are doing well,” publicist Cari Ross told the Associated Press.

According to an Us source, the actress’ mother Diana Jimenez Hayek, brother Sami Hayek and fiance Francois-Henri Pinault were all there for the delivery.

The source tells Us that Hayek has had the baby’s name picked out since she was six months pregnant. “She told everyone she loved Valentina because it strong and romantic,” says the source.

Hayek’s mother will be staying with her for the next month to take care of the baby at her Bel Air home.

The Ugly Betty producer announced her pregnancy, along with her engagement to the father of her daughter, Francois-Henri Pinault, in March. Businessman Pinault is the CEO of PPR, which owns Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, the French department store Printemps, catalog giant La Redoute and the music-bookstore chain FNAC.

Hayek hosted her own baby shower at the end of August at her home in the Hollywood Hills. Guest Pia Lindstrom told Us at the time, “She was full of pregnancy glow and looked so happy.”

New mother Hayek has said, “Motherhood is not for everyone. It is for me.”

Congrats to the happy family!

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