How do you chill out after a protracted, tiring day? Do you make a journey to your neighborhood low-key spa? Bask in luxurious La Mer skincare merchandise earlier than mattress? Hit the stationary bike such as you’re within the Tour de France? Should you’re plateauing out of your self-care routine, enable Salma Hayek to current you one other, extra avian possibility: meditating into the bewitching abyss whereas an owl balances in your head. Are you soothed but?
“You will not consider this,” started Hayek, in an interview with Individuals. “I do meditate with [my] owl very, fairly often. The minute I’m going deep into meditation, she stays tremendous nonetheless.” That could be attributable to owls’ distinctive talons, which Wired describes as “comparatively brief however sturdy,” permitting the chicken to perch painlessly on Hayek with relative ease.
Hayek’s pet owl is known as is Kering, in honor of her husband François-Henri Pinault, who owns the namesake luxurious conglomerate. And Kering feels like extra a canine and fewer like a carnivorous chicken of prey: Hayek beforehand instructed Individuals that they “share meals, watch TV on [her] iPad,” and referred to as Kering’s vitality “mesmerizing.”
The nocturnal creature additionally has a mischievous aspect. On an upcoming appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Present, Hayek described how — that is gross, right here is your warning — Kering vomited a ball of rat fur and bones on Harry Types’ head. “[Styles] was actually excited in regards to the owl and hoped that the owl would go on his head as a result of it was on me,” recalled Hayek, when the chicken determined to entreat Types to an amuse bouche of its final meal. “The minute he least anticipated it, [Kering landed] on his head, and this factor got here out, this ball of rat hair was on his head.” Types took the expertise like a champ, and understood these kinds of accidents “occur generally when you could have visitors” — certain, in the event you occur to be a visitor within the dwelling of a vermin-killing, finely-tuned evolutionary raptor. What a hoot.
