Salma Hayek talks openly about menopause and how her body has changed
The actress has participated in the show hosted by Jada Pinkett-Smith in order to demystify this process
Salma Hayek usually has no problem telling what her concerns are and how the problems of the environment around her affect her. On more than one occasion, she has referred to the different obstacles that she has had to face during her professional career just because she is of Mexican origin and, above all, a woman.
There is no doubt that, despite the great advance that the #MeToo movement made, the film mecca still has a lot of work ahead to offer them the same opportunities and propose other types of scripts that do not include discriminatory references . However, actresses like Salma make us think that this change is closer and closer, since she is one of the most demanding interpreters in Hollywood.
She has demonstrated it once again on the program Red Table Talk, hosted by fellow actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, in which she interviews different characters of interest. In this space, she has the support of her daughter Willow Smith, the fruit of her marriage to Will Smith, and her mother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris. With this variety of ages, she seeks to find a common point, apart from the blood connection that unites them, between three generations that have developed her personality and profession in different historical contexts.
This time, the protagonist of Bandidas wanted to tell how a process as natural as menopause is being and she has done it without hiding how she has felt marked by it. "We have to convince people that it is not only necessary to say the word without problem, but also to talk about how we deal with it," she said during the interview.
In addition, she has exposed the way in which she was questioned when she began to notice the first symptoms and, to the surprise of the presenters of this talk show, she has told what were the questions that the doctors asked her: “Are your ears growing and is hair growing out of them? Are you growing a mustache or beard? Do you feel more irritated than usual? "
On the contrary, "despite the fact that no one recognizes it", one of the symptoms that you can have with menopause is breast enlargement and that is precisely what has happened to her. "Many believe that I underwent an increase and I do not blame them, before they were smaller, like the rest of my body," she has opined in order to demonstrate how the physical appearance of women is often questioned.
With this, she has stressed that the moment in which menstruation is withdrawn does not mean that they have "reached the expiration date, because there is no age to kick asses, or to dream, or to be romantic." With these words, the actress has highlighted the situation in which actresses find themselves at the moment in which they reach a certain age and stop offering them roles because they are not considered suitable for certain roles.
Thus, she has denounced the way in which certain issues continue to be addressed in relation to the historical and misogynistic view of women and the configuration of her future around the family and the couple. "We are not here just to have children or to take care of men or all the people around us," she has insisted with some annoyance at the problem of ageism suffered by women and, especially, famous women.
