Salma Hayek affirms that she has never had a breast operation and explains why her size has increased
The actress is critical of the image that society continues to have of women who reach this period.
Salma Hayek is one of those Hollywood actresses who defends the feminist movement whenever she can and who also speaks openly about daily realities that affect all women, whether or not they are faces in gossip magazines. How could it be otherwise, one of those realities is the menopause, something that the 54-year-old artist knows closely.
Hayek spoke at length about this subject and many others on the Red Table Talk program, a format broadcast over the Internet and directed by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith (Will Smith's ex-wife) together with her daughter Willow Smith and her mother Adrienne. Banfield-Norris.
Sitting around a circular red table, these three generations of women talked about feminism and the demands that both women in their 50s and women in their 20s continue to have in this patriarchal society: "there is no age to kick ass, nor to dream, nor to be romantic".
"My breasts do not stop growing and my back suffers from it"
Although at the beginning of the conversation the three women began talking about that time when Salma Hayek directed a video clip of Jada Pinkett-Smith singing in Spanish, she quickly went back to how the different vital moments that women go through change us.
In this context, Hayek spoke about how not only menopause but also motherhood itself alters the lives of women both emotionally and physically: "When the children grow up and leave, many women are left out of place. We wonder Where is my place now? What do I do when no one claims me in a hurry?", he reflects.
And it is that, in most cases, the first feelings of the empty nest arrive almost in parallel with the first symptoms of menopause. Although in the case of Hayek it was not like that because she began to experience the first changes at the age of 40, throughout these 14 years she has seen how she gained weight and it was more difficult for her to lose it or and how this has come from the hand of a disproportionate increase in her breasts.
"At first, no one tells you that your breasts are going to grow a lot. I remember that one of the first visits the doctor asked me if my ears were growing or if hair was growing out of them. He also asked me if I was growing mustache or beard," said the actress, who has been most concerned about her breast enlargement and the consequences that this is having on her back.
Lastly, and responding to a follower who asked how she dealt with a curvaceous body and now with a lot of chest, Hayek pointed out that "it is very difficult to dress and pay attention to the neckline when you have a lot of chest because it seems that all the attention will always go to that area" and points out that covering it completely is not the solution because that will make "you look even more voluminous", so he advises her to play with makeup and hair to take attention away from her chest.
