Salma Hayek’s attempt to capture a peaceful bikini photo didn’t quite unfold as expected. In an Instagram post on Monday, April 15, the 57-year-old actress shared the results of what appeared to be a rather chaotic photoshoot.
The actress posed in a blue bikini, accessorized with gold necklaces, while perched on a ladder in the three photos. The chaos ensued as Hayek appeared to be showered with water in the first two photos, and in the third, she seemed unprepared for the shot.
“When your family won’t let you take a bikini ріс in peace 🥲🚿🤣,” she captioned the Instagram post. In a second sentence, she translated the caption into Spanish.
Naturally, many of the film producer’s 28 million Instagram followers flooded the comments section of her post. They praised her confidence and insisted that she still looks great, even amidst the chaos.
Hayek is no stranger to a bikini selfie. Just about a week ago, she shared a photo donning a blue bikini top, oversized sunglasses with blue lenses, and a statement necklace.
She’s also familiar with being asked about her beauty secrets to looking so youthful. When Hayek sat down with Kelly Ripa to chat on her podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera in July of 2023, the two dove right into the subject.
Ripa started by asking whether or not Hayek’s ever gotten Botox, to which the Magic Mike actress replied “No Botox!”
Hayek claims that her wellness secret is meditation. “Because of a lot of things in my body and health issues, somehow I developed this strange meditation that I keep evolving. I can do it for hours because I don’t feel the time, and it’s so much fun,” she explained. “It moves and it dances inside of you, different feelings and sensations. So I do a lot of the frequency machines.”
“When I don’t do it for some time, guess what?” she said. “The face starts to drop and everything starts to drop.”
Other wellness routines Hayek swears by to look and feel her best? She’s previously posted about her love for dry sauna and for taking a simple approach to her beauty regimen.
This philosophy has been Hayek’s approach for a long time, as far back as 2014, when she sat down with NewBeauty to share her beauty secrets.
“I have always been very conservative of what I’ve done to my skin,” she said. “I look after it and I don’t believe in abandoning it and then trying to fix it with something really drastic, really fast. I try to be consistent with the basics.”
“I have never gotten something done just because it was a trend or the next ‘biggest wonder,'” she continued. “I tend to stay away from aggressive things. I’ve never even had a peel or microdermabrasion.”
Her biggest piece of beauty advice? “My grandmother used to say, ‘No matter how tired you are, you never go to sleep without cleaning your skin,'” she said. “I think that probably has saved me over the years.”
