Salma Hayek posted this selfie on Tuesday with the hashtags #Wind and #Aire. Pretty normal selfie in paradise, nothing notable at all, right? Well someone decided to chime in on what they thought the selfie revealed: Botox. This person commented “Too much Botox. Not needed, Salma.” Salma’s response? “I don’t have Botox. But thank you for the advice because I was thinking maybe it’s time.”
First of all, I hate this now commonplace thing to insult celebrities ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA. Do it on Twitter without tagging them, by all means, or do it in a blog comment, sure. But I’ll never understand the need some people have to say demeaning or rude sh-t to celebrities on their own social media accounts. That’s rude as hell and should only be done when you’re calling out someone for something significant, like a lie or something. Salma didn’t even humble-brag about being “all natural” in the selfie.
Second of all… this whole exchange had me spinning, because… I actually do think Salma has been subtly experimenting with some injectibles here and there? Nothing major, nothing Kardashian-esque. It’s perfectly possible that she’s not using Botox and it’s some other injectible. It’s possible she’s ageing naturally and she takes really good care of her skin. It’s possible that she’s doing everything plus surgery. I don’t know. All I do know is that I wouldn’t go on Salma’s IG and tell her that her face is frozen (because it’s not & because that’s rude).
Photos courtesy of WENN, Salma’s social media.
I don’t think she has done Botox or weird “stuff” but in the pics it look likes she had done something to her lips. Even so compare with the plastic faces walking around Hollywood Salma Hayek is pretty normal.
Girl likes to still tell us that her chest is all her, too, even though there’s clear photographic evidence how they sprouted overnight. Please.
Look, she doesn’t owe us ANY explanation. But just like Nicole Kidman trying to get us to buy that all she uses is Neutragenia wrinkle cream to keep her face pulled tighter than a drum, Selma is trying to sell us a bill of goods here, too.
Whatever she IS doing, she looks good and natural (though I do agree…lips are a bit jacked).
I thought Nicole finally admitted that she uses botox & fillers? I mean, come on. If not, isn’t it just a tad misleading (fraud?) to claim Neutragenia is the magic bullet?
Salma is starting to look like her mom, the opera singer at this age – I remember seeing a photo of her when she was in her late 40s. I doubt Botox is involved. I think she just gained a little bit of weight and your face is often the first thing to change, including lips.
Yes, I think this is it. She’s gained a little bit of weight since we last saw her, and that’s added some fullness and softness to her face.
I think weight change is often mistaken for plastic surgery. She does look really good but then again she always has and olive skin is lovely.
@rhys Yeah I agree. She does look a little fuller top to bottom. She also has great skin that contributes to her not being so wrinkle prone. I think she just has good genes. My mom had great skin with no deep lines in her face up to her mid- sixties. Unfortunately, I take after my dad. LOL!
I’m sure she doesn’t have Botox. She probably had another injectable like Cosmetic, Dysport, or Xeomin. So technically she wouldn’t be a liar….
I think that’s exactly what it is. I’d be surprised if she’s not having fillers of some sort – just not actually botox. Juvederm, or something like that.
I just have a hard time believing that she’s been THAT good to her skin, and that she’s won the genetic lottery to this degree. I’m willing to believe that she’s probably done less than a lot of other actresses, just not that she’s left her face completely untouched.
Why is that so hard to believe? She could very well have been THAT good to her skin. And some people do in fact win the genetic lottery. She could also just be wearing make up, slapping a filter on top of this picture, and angling it in such a way that the lighting softens out a lot of it. She could be having a good skin day. Why the insistence that she must have done something?
Or maximum photo shop. Idk but nary a wrinkle in sight. Does she only smile in pap pix? And then not emote using her face for the rest of her days? I want to believe her but…
That photo of her at the top, you can seen two vertical lines between her brows and the nasiolabal fold, along with some under eye lines. They’re not deep or obvious, but I’d say they’re pretty visible.
Agreed – she’s stuck something in there, but I don’t think it’s Botox. So, she skirted around the lie. But whatever. It’s her face. She can do whatever she wants to it and she doesn’t owe anyone an explanation.
I’ve been shocked, on numerous occasions, reading comments on some people’s IG accounts. I can understand why some of them just cut off commenting. It can get really sick and hurtful. I feel like comments sections should be abolished (except here). They are breeding grounds for hate.
I’m sure she has some work done. But she won’t admit it, most celebs don’t unless its very apparent. I admire those who tell the truth though. Why lie? Its your body, there’s no shame in saying that you changed the things you didn’t like. It’s much better than perpetuating the “good genes” BS.
Agree with everything you said.
Yeah, it’s the lying I don’t like. I mean, I know Hollywood is misogynistic and forces actresses to do botox, plastic surgery, etc., in order to get and keep jobs. But instead of calling that out and using it for good, we get the “I’m just so genetically superior to other women that I don’t age” crap. It goes hand in hand with the “I eat cheeseburgers and ice cream all day but my metabolism keeps me a size 0” lies; and the “I got pregnant naturally at age 50 because my eggs are just so much younger than other women” lies; and the “look at my natural thigh gap that I absolutely did not photoshop, don’t you wish you were me” lies.
I will believe her. The skin on my 55 year old face can look pretty smooth when taken from a certain angle. And, honestly, the picture looks filtered.
IMO it’s both: she used filters for the pics and she had some interventions on her face which make her look…different.
I wish we could destigmatize ‘work’ done on women’s faces. As a society, we chant “forever young!” then bristle at aging while at the same time shaming women for trying to beat Father Time. It’s exhausting. I remember seeing her at the Oscars and thinking she had work done and it was GOOD work. With buckets of money at her disposal, if she wants work done, it should be subtle and nuanced. The best injectors are talented, gifted and restrained but they are expensive. I have work done on the regular and if I had Selma’s money, I would be on the first flight to wherever they could pull, tighten and refresh my tired AF 51 y/o body.
Agree, what is so wrong in using the techniques available for helping you look better? Some people threat it like it is a weakness of carachter, it is amazing! Like if you are less of a person for trying to look better, because you don´t accept yourself as you are.
I have breast implants and I do botox, I would more if I had the resources, and I do not look plastic or unnatural, there are so many options these days. I think if you don´t go overboard , what is the problem? After I´ve done my breasts I feels so much better with myself, I haven´t realized how much it affected until I did it. So I think it is about time to stop judging people who choose to have “some work done”. Personally I dont give a f* about what what people say, I pay my own bills and I am also working on improving as a person. So if I can grow older looking as good as I can I will take measures available if I think they can help me as long as it is done with balance.
My issue with it is that there are people who won’t own the work, and set the ridiculous standard of what aging “SHOULD” look like, while having doctors control their aging. If they’re happy to cop to it, I think that’s great. Do what makes you feel good, I just think that if someone gets work done and actively pretends to be natural, it’s doing a disservice to the already incredibly ridiculous expectations society has on women.
@Erinn slightly different but related perspective: @Lili raises the issue of money and I do feel, if I try to really gain perspective and look at things from afar, that it is also a question of money and social status. I deal with people with lots of money and not only do you see the work done, even if it’s superficial, unlike you say, @Lili (and when you don’t then what’s the point unless its your breasts which not everyone can see so evidently), it also puts pressure on women with less money but with the same kind of societal and very unrealistic expectations on them body-wise. It’s a very Marie-Antoinette time to be a woman where fashion is taking ridiculous and frankly unattainable proportions: it means that you have to have the means, the kind of social/professional situation where you can take the time off or sacrifice your holidays to do it and you yield to expectations the men around you don’t even have on them. My question is: are the men your age in your life doing the same thing to their bodies? Do you expect them to?
@Erinn all I am saying is that if you do choose to have work done , I don´t think people have the right to judge you for choosing this path, like if you are weak person for doing so. I don´t care if women or men in my circle do it or not, they are allowed to have their own choices just as I am. I agree that celebrities sell this idea that they look great just “drinking water” and it is not realistic but they also have the right to keep it private if they think so. But we live in an era that treatments are available for a variety of issues, so why not taking advantage of it? I think it is hard to be human in general regardless of what fashion or hollywood says, but having or no botox is not going to change it, the burdens will exist no matter what , beauty standards have existed since the begining of human history and it is not going to change.
Yes. You can’t wish it away.
Can it be a filter? Some people use those weird filters on their photos that are supposed to make skin look soft and glowy and wrinkle free, but most of the time they look plastic to me. So maybe there is that? Although she does have wrinkles around her mouth there. Anyhow she does not look frozen, that’s for sure
I don’t know about cosmetic work she had or hasn’t done, but she did put on a little weight as she got older and I always thought that meant she chose face in the ass-face dilemma.
Women can’t win – society yells at us for daring to get older, but then also yells at us for trying to look younger.
I don’t know if she’s had anything done or not but why is it so hard to accept that some women are actually capable of aging gracefully without injecting their faces with chemicals or going under the knife? Especially if they’ve been taking good care of themselves (and their skin). Salma has always been stunningly gorgeous, is it really that big of a stretch that she still would be? Unless it’s blatantly obvious a la Nicole Kidman, Courtney Cox, Meg Ryan and cases like that I think this kind of speculation (accusation?) is completely ridiculous and pointless, and only serves as an attempt to make ourselves feel better by trying to tear another person down. It’s so exhausting and, in the age of social media, so predictable.
Even if they were injecting or going under the knife, it’s really weird to me how we hold them personally responsible for having foibles and insecurities regarding their own looks. We expect celebs to be perfectly honest and have no alterations, but when they do age or look less than perfect, society doesn’t hesitate to tear them down either. And if they’re honest about their procedures, then people call them vapid and shallow. What type of balance do they have to strike in order to win with everybody?
I think it IS hard to imagine that for actors. I’m 44 and my resting bitch face has done well for me but all that emoting in rehearsals and shows causes people 15+ years younger than I to have quite a few lines.
Botox or not, I think she looks absolutely stunning. As always. And If she does use Botox, I hope she’s kind enough to give her doctor’s name to some of her fellow celebrities because there are men and women wandering in LA with some truly scary faces.
She doesn’t have that waxy look like Nicole and Courtney. No botox.
I never had a waxy look when I did Botox. I dont think Botox causes that look. They inject where your lines are so I don’t see how that would make your face waxy.
She has filled out a bit weight wise and wears it amazingly well so maybe that’s it?
And it must depend on the celebrity because we use Botox as an insult around here on a daily basis 🤷♀️
I think she looks great and really doesn’t owe anyone any explanations. She had a nose job and breast implants so she is not averse to plastic surgery.
She can afford to have laser treatments + chemical peels + micro-needling + all sorts of other procedures done every single month. These all induce collagen and elastin fiber growth, and reduce the need for botox. It’s just really expensive.
Gorgeous! What a beautiful woman.
Funny, I was saying on Oscars night that it was nice to see an star who was aging gracefully. I don’t think she has jacked her face and I don’t think she has exercised a day in her life. She looks her age.
I want to say no, because she’s kind of addressed this at one point when she was on the Graham Norton show. She was talking about how she had turned 50 and Graham and his guests were complimenting her on how she looked so good, and she joked that they didn’t notice how she’d pulled her hair back so tightly to give her skin some tautness, lol. I dunno, I thought that was kind of refreshing and frank. I think it’s worse when celebs insist they’ve done nothing at all. At least she’s willing to point out that hey, yeah, these are my flaws, let me show you them, lol.
This picture looks like it’s got a filter on it, more than anything. She seems fine.
Almost every female celebrity gets work done. Salma is no exception. She’s still beautiful. I think it’s a nonstory.
I agree that the comments are extremely rude and it’s her business.
I think she’s probably gotten some injectables and there’s nothing wrong with that. Even normal folks get stuff done sometimes because they furrow their brow at the computer and get deep wrinkles, or get it to help with headaches, etc. I don’t think it should be talked about like a bad thing, especially in her industry!
She looks great and clearly hasn’t gone overboard.
Do I believe her?
She’s an actress!
No!
hahahaha!
I think she looks great. But has anyone else noticed the scar under her chin? Facelift? It’s fab is so
She aging naturally nothing yet. I waiting until 64 to get some injectables. The thing is I bruise easily and I was surprised how much of a factor that is. So No, I would say she just beautiful and has good skin DNA.
I bruise very easily and I took to Botox very well and did not bruise at all.
When a celeb says they don’t use Botox and their foreheads are smooth and movement free, they use Dysport or Xeomin instead.
I think she has good genes, she’s taken care of herself and… she’s a VERY wealthy woman in France and they pretty much have the best, most skillful and subtle aesthetic dermatologists. I mean, if I were her, with her resources, I’d be all over that merde.
She has the money – or access to it – in order to have PRP, aka Platelet Rich Plasma treatments anytime she wants or needs them. Plus all of the other incredible things that can really make a difference in one’s face without surgery.
She also can afford to use the non-Botox serums which can work like it, too. It’s not my business what she’s using, but I’ll make a bet that it isn’t her own product line or she’d be shouting it from the rooftops.