Salma Hayek Covers Allure Magazine September 2011, Talks About Cleavage
August 16, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Salma Hayek’s spectacular hip-to-waist ratio covers Allure’s September 2011 issue. Because there’s been a distinct lack of cleavage on this Fall’s covers and so Hayek’s compensating by giving you all the curves you’ll need to fill your cup in one go. She’s on the cover in all black, which is slimming… not that she needs the help. She seems to be lacking any colour or real accessories, which is contra every trend this season: it’s been about too many large jewels and too many clashing bright secondary colours (Gucci’s palette’s been ripped off hardest and everyone followed). But this cover ignores trends and its own usual boilerplate and, aside from a belt that only makes her look curvier, she’s a blank canvas using her assets as an accessory. Well played, Hayek.
On whether she’s plastic: Hayek believes in fighting ageing… up to a point. “I believe that every woman is entitled to fight to preserve her youth,” she says. But not by becoming overly surgified by celebrity dermatologists. “It’s like the uniform of a generation,” Hayek says. “And it’s not necessarily beautiful. It’s not wrinkled-looking, but it’s not beautiful. I’ve never had anything done on my face,” Hayek insists. “I’ve never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.”
On her chest: Ask Hayek whether any part of her body looked better ten years ago, and she’ll tell you. “My boobs,” she says with a laugh. “They’re not bad, by the way. I’m not complaining about them.” She famously breast-fed a hungry infant in Sierra Leone, where she was promoting a UNICEF initiative to eradicate tetanus. “If you have milk, you have milk, and if they’re hungry, they’re hungry,” she says. “I think it’s a beautiful thing, because motherhood is a very strong place for women to connect and understand each other.”
On her confidence: “As a woman, you should be more at ease with your sexuality when you are in your 40s,” she says. “You are more self-assured about that part. And that’s the way it should be. If you are a girl who cannot walk in heels, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are,” she says. “If you look like a chicken that’s been spiked in the feet, it’s not going to be sexy.”
On childhood bullying: “I got teased because I was too short, or I was too brown,” she says. (Her complexion is the legacy of her father, a businessman of Lebanese descent.) “You would think in Mexico that would be something normal, but I did get teased,” she says.
On filming love scenes: Hayek first became known in America with Desperado, an action movie starring Antonio Banderas. A love scene between them took eight hours to film rather than the scheduled one hour because of Hayek’s reluctance. “I’m not an exhibitionist,” she says. “It was the first time, so it was very difficult.” – via Allure.
The entire interview’s basically about her body and sexuality. Go figure. She’s in the same boat as Sofia Vergara; always asked about her ethnicity as it pertains to her sexuality (because stereotypes are fun). They seem like smart enough women, but you’d never know it from the breadth of interview subjects lobbied at them.
There are some other gems in this interview, like that quote about Hayek’s first sex scene. It’s believable, right? Unlike other celebrities, where you’d feel they were saying it to create some weird virgin/ whore image and they pretend to be conflicted. But it doesn’t read that way with Hayek. Hayek said her only place in Hollywood was sexualised Latina. Naturally blonde Vergara said the same, noting that she had to dye her hair before producers knew what to do with her/ they realised how best to pigeonhole her.
PHOTO CREDIT – ALLURE MAGAZINE
