Sex siren Elsa Pataky tells of her life with Chris Hemsworth — the horse poo, spiders and snakes

FROM Hollywood to farm girl, Spanish superstar Elsa Pataky appears to live a life of glitz and glamour with premieres, a movie hero for a husband in Chris Hemsworth, and a sex siren tag.

Spanish beauty Elsa Pataky is loving her Aussie life. Picture: Dylan Robinson

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FROM Hollywood to farm girl, Spanish superstar Elsa Pataky appears to live a life of glitz and glamour with premieres, a movie hero for a husband in Chris Hemsworth, and a sex siren tag in her homeland.

But she told an intimate gathering at the light-filled Centennial Homestead last week she was happiest among the dirt, horse poop and huntsman spiders of Byron Bay.

“It’s true I love all the wildlife and people have always said: ‘Elsa, you are your own person’ but I tell my friends and family back home who ask ‘you don’t mind you have snakes on your property?’ And I’m like yes I love it — it’s exciting.

“And my kids love it too. And huntsmen. I like them too. I’m a very fearless person. I like challenges like that,” she explained at the launch of the Botanicals Fresh Care hair care range for which she has been named ambassador.

Elsa makes friends with the wildlife around Byron Bay. Picture: Elsa Pataky/Instagram

“People don’t know me in that way — they see you all dressed up and with make up and high heels — but where I feel the most happy is the exact opposite.”

In fact, despite premiering her recent flick The Fate of the Furious in New York recently — gorgeously taking along a group of mums from her kids’ mothers group — and hanging out with Matt Damon and his tribe over Easter, Pataky said she delighted in the most simple things.

“It’s the best. I can’t wait to take all my high heels off and my dress and just enjoy nature and being with the horses — every morning I’m with my horse,” she said.

“My daughter is like ‘are we farmers now?’ and I’m like ‘yes we are farmers.’ I’m just excited to be a farmer,” she said lunching on the coriander, safflower, geranium and camelina inspired menu alongside guests including Magdalena Roze, Sally Obermeder, Fiona Falkiner and Samantha Harris.

“She doesn’t admire anything I do in this world and all my movies or anything but she’s just excited to be a farmer, but cleaning the poos and giving the horses hay. I hope they appreciate that kind of life that they have, because I didn’t have it growing up so I think that’s where I’m happiest now.”

Elsa with husband Chris Hemsworth. Picture: Chris Hemsworth/Instagram

Pataky said she and Chris had said they would never settle in either homeland because it would be too far from the other’s family. But the minute she landed in Byron she knew she had found home.

“I fell in love the first time Chris took me here, and I was like ‘I wanna live here’, so he was very happy. I think Byron has this amazing energy and I’m so in love with this town — as well as Sydney, it’s just so beautiful every time I come, ” she said.

“I feel like people here are very similar to the Spanish people. They have the same sense of humour — and it’s just a life of having fun, very different to all the places I’ve been. It’s easy for me in this environment to make friends and meet local mums and going around and doing things, it’s been great.”

Elsa and Chris Hemsworth at Bluesfest in Byron Bay. Picture: Instagram

Taking her mums group to New York, after Chris went on a surfing trip with the dads, was extra special, she said, because she got to show them New York through her eyes.

“It was an amazing. I took my mums from Byron who had never been out of Byron. And my husband did a surfing trip with their husbands so I was like I’ll take you to a nice place. They were like crying and so excited. It’s a great trip to do a for girls New York, and as I lived there. It was so exciting to see them so excited. They were on the red carpet with me. It was the best experience for me to have with them, seeing it all through their eyes.”

The Zen-loving mum of three said that while it was important to take moments for yourself she was happiest on her farm with her toes, which she laughs are in dire need of a pedicure, squishing in the grass.

“I wanted to be a mum 100 per cent. I don’t look like this all the time. The make up girls this morning were looking at my feet — and I was like ‘I haven’t’ had a pedicure in two years, seriously!’ I’m an older mum so I want to be there for the kids. People don’t have pedicures in Byron.”