Salma Hayek says she has never used Botox.
“No Botox,” the “Eternals” star said when asked by Kelly Ripa recently on an episode of her “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast.
Instead, the 56-year-old actor told Ripa she credits her youthfulness to a combination of meditation and frequency machines.
“Because of a lot of pain in my body and health issues, somehow I developed this strange meditation that I keep evolving,” Hayek said of a herniated disc and problems in her neck, hip, and ankles. “I can do it for hours because you don’t feel the time, and it’s so much fun because it’s not like you sit there and you think of nothing. It’s actually feeling the energy and it moves and it dance inside of you.”
When asked about her specific regimen and what it looks like when she’s meditating, Hayek said it varies.
“I listen to my body. And it’s weird things,” Hayek said. “What I do every day, most of the time, I start still. There is movement, but you have to learn to let your body move on its own.”
Ripa clarified that Hayek isn’t using any sort of meditation app.
Related stories
“It’s my own invention,” Hayek said, telling Ripa she “can do five minutes and it can be very powerful.”
When Ripa asked for advice on meditating, Hayek encouraged her to be alone in a room and put on music that she normally doesn’t listen to so that she goes somewhere else mentally.
“Feel the vibration of the music, use your imagination to do weird things,” Hayek said, adding: “One thing that works for me a lot is I start imagining that I’m breathing through my ears.”
“Or you’re sitting down. Feel the vibration of the music on the floor. Let it touch you. Let it interact with the vibration of your body,” Hayek said. “If you need to move, move. Run in place, but without anyone watching. And blindfold yourself so that you go inside. You don’t have any outside stimulation.”
Hayek said her husband, billionaire François-Henri Pinault, only refers to her meditation as “yoga.”
Pinault is the CEO of luxury fashion company Kering, which owns brands including Gucci, Alexander McQueen, and Balenciaga. The two have been married since 2009 and share a daughter, Valentina.
“He really doesn’t want to believe in energy,” Hayek said. “Sometimes, we have to do something and I cannot walk and he goes, ‘Why don’t you take a minute to do your yoga?'”
Hayek added: “It really freaks him out.”
Additionally, Hayek told Ripa she uses “a lot of the frequency machines,” referring to radio frequency and micro-frequency machines.
“They work better on me than on anyone,” Hayek said. “When I do these frequency machines, they work. It is so noticeable on me.”
Hayek added that she was told by those who run the machines that not everybody receives the same results she does.
The actor cautioned that what works for her may not work for others, telling Ripa: “The most important thing is that everybody is so unique and you have to celebrate your uniqueness and your uniqueness changes every day and every second.”
“At the end of the day, it’s spending time with yourself and enjoying your own company. The most important thing is you being curious about you and not relying on someone else to show you the way,” Hayek said.
