Selma Hayes

Selma Hayes, a character in the Baby Bump series, is the CEO of the Fortune 500 Company, Sweet Selma's Cookies, and your character's idol. She is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 5.

Appearance
Selma has brown eyes, short dark brown hair which is graying, and dark skin. She wears a white long-sleeved shirt under a tan vest-cardigan, a long necklace with alternating orange beads and hoops, and dangling earrings.

Personality
Selma says that every person is a cookie, and every cookie has a feel, a character, and a vibe. She is a "chocolate chip cookie with chocolate chips"; that is, "what you see is what you get" with her. No surprises.

Book 1

 * Chapter 5: New Complications
 * Chapter 6: Growing Pains
 * Chapter 7: Bumpy Road
 * Chapter 8: Love Labors
 * Chapter 12: Heart's Fancy
 * Chapter 14: Urgent Care
 * Chapter 15: Born Ready
 * Chapter 16: Final Push

Book 2

 * Chapter 16: Where the Heart Is

Your Character
In Chapter 5, you see Selma at Cassandra Taylor's mansion and mention that she is "the greatest business mind of her generation" and that you wrote your thesis paper on "the cookie baroness of the South". When she seeks you out at the party, she tells you that she has heard good things about you from Mr. Covington. She asks you how to improve the current marketing ad of Selma's cookies, and offers you and Mayor Dixon some of the whiskey she brought. At the end of Chapter 6, she invites you to her home to discuss a new job opportunity.

Trivia

 * Her character model resembles Lena from A Courtesan of Rome and Marianne D'Arneaux from Red Carpet Diaries, Book 3.
 * The name Selma is one for girls of Old German, Celtic, Arabic and Hebrew origin, which means: "Godly helmet" (Old German); "Beautiful view" (Celtic); "Peace" (Arabic and Hebrew). It's a short form of the German name Anselma, a derivation of the Celtic word "shelma" and a variant of the Arabic name Salma and of the Hebrew name Salome.
 * The surname Hayes is of Old English, Irish and Scottish origin, which means: "Bushwood", "Underwood", "Enclosure" or "Hedge" (Old English); "Descendant of Aodh" (Irish); "Of La Haye" or "Of the hedge" (Scottish).
 * She shares the same surname as the Hayes family (Delia, Amelia, MC and Devon) from The Unexpected Heiress and Blaine Hayes from Foreign Affairs.