Salma Hayek’s Instagram Post Proves She Looks Just as Good Now As She Did in Her Twenties

While Hayek may look the same, her 2014 NewBeauty cover feature proves that she’s grown a lot since the good old days. Something she wishes she could’ve told her younger self: make time for yourself.

“I have a child and a husband who always need me, and the one thing I can’t do is relax and take time for myself,” she tells us. “The only place I feel I can do this is when I take a bath or I am in the shower, because no one can find me there. Sometimes, in the morning, I lay down flat in the shower and let the water rush over me. Even if you do it for five minutes, it’s really lovely.”

Another lesson she wishes she could have known is that “even the most steadfast of beauties are not without their battles.” Having acne so severe she was prescribed Accutane to treat it, she thought she would never see the clear-skin light at the end of a long, dark tunnel of insecurity. 

“There were days I used to wake up, look in the mirror and go straight back to bed because my acne was so bad, so I get it,” she tells us. “I think adult acne is something that, while it affects a lot of people, most brands still don’t want to give a solution because they think it’s not chic—it’s actually shocking. I think that’s terrible.”

With a skin-care line added to her repertoire along with many years in the beauty industry, the star has come a long way since this picture, but she hasn’t lost her spark.