Salma Hayek.Photo: Salma Hayek/Instagram
“The questions were terrifying,” the 54-year-old actress said on thelatest episode ofRed Table Talk. “They were asking me things like, ‘Are your ears growing and there’s hair growing out of them? Are you growing a mustache and a beard? Are you easily irritable? Are you crying for no reason? Are you gaining a lot of weight really fast that doesn’t go away no matter what you do? Are you shrinking?’ And then they ask you, ‘Is your vagina dry?’ "
But the symptom that surprised Hayek the most once shestarted going through menopausewas one they hadn’t mentioned — that her breasts would get larger.
“The boobs grow a lot,” she said. “For some women they get smaller. But there are some women that when you gain weight, your boobs grow, and other women that when you have children and you breastfeed your boobs grow and they don’t go back down, and then in some of the cases when you are in menopause they grow again. And I just happen to be one of those women where it happened in every, single step!”
Hayek said that over the years, as her weight fluctuated through her pregnancy and now menopause, people have thought that she had plastic surgery.
“A lot of people said that I had breast augmentation; I don’t blame them! My boobs were smaller! So was the rest of my body,” she said. “But they have just kept growing. Many, many sizes. And my back has been really suffering from it. And not a lot of people talk about this.”
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TheHitman’s Wife’s Bodyguardstar said that she’s also experienced mood swings and hot flashes over the last few years.
“I have gone through those periods, I still kind of am, but you got to notice those moments and take a deep breath and kind of say, ‘Okay, it’ll pass. You got to hold it together,’ " she said. “And the hot flashes aren’t fun.”
But Hayek emphasized thataging is not a problem.
Hayek’s full episode ofRed Table Talkairs on Wednesday, June 23 at 12 p.m. ET, 9 a.m. PT.
source: people.com
