Salma Hayek goes on ‘insect diet’

 

Salma Hayek took insect diet in order to have perfect physique, insects being her source of proteins. Salma Hayek’s latest Instagram video backs Shailene Woodley’s recent comment that bugs are “the future of food.” The 48-year-old actress shared an up close and personal video on Saturday, April 18, that showed her eating a cricket! Hayek opens her mouth to reveal the dead bug on her tongue before crunching it up and consuming it.

“These are crickets from Mexico, from Oaxaca, and they are eaten…” she explained to her 54,000 followers. Hayek then shared a photo of her mini-meal, writing: “Close-up of the crickets.” If this is her secret to looking this good in a bikini, we’ll take two! The Fools Rush In actress wouldn’t be the first A-lister to admit to eating insects. Divergent star Shailene Woodley also finds bugs to be a good source of protein. “I’ve eaten ants and that was great. And June bugs, that was great,” she told Nylon magazine. “I think the future of food is in insects, so we’ll see what happens.”

Salma Hayek Jiménez is a Mexican American film actress, director and producer. She began her career in Mexico starring in the telenovela Teresa and went on to star in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley) for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award. In 1991 Hayek moved to Hollywood and came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as Desperado, Dogma , and Wild Wild West .
Her breakthrough role was in the 2002 film Frida as Frida Kahlo which she received an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress. The movie received widespread attention and was a critical and commercial success. She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing in a Children/Youth/Family Special in 2004 for The Maldonado Miracle and received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007 after guest-starring in the ABC television series Ugly Betty.

Hayek’s recent films include Grown Ups acting alongside Adam Sandler, and Puss in Boots , which also features former collaborator Antonio Banderas, wherein she is the voice of the character ‘Kitty Softpaws’. Hayek has been a spokesperson for Avon cosmetics since February 2004. She formerly was a spokesperson for Revlon in 1998. In 2001, she modeled for Chopard and was featured in 2006 Campari adverts, photographed by Mario Testino. On April 3, 2009, she helped introduce La Doña, a watch by Cartier inspired by fellow Mexican actress María Félix. Hayek has worked with the Procter & Gamble Company and UNICEF to promote the funding through disposable diaper sales of vaccines against maternal and neonatal tetanus.

She is a global spokesperson for the Pampers/UNICEF “partnership” 1 Pack = 1 Vaccine to help raise awareness of the program. This “partnership” involves Proctor & Gamble donating the cost of one tetanus vaccination (approximately 24 cents) for every pack of Pampers sold. (Pampers diapers cost approximately 25 cents each, or about US$1,000 per child per year in the US market).

In 2011, Hayek launched her own line of cosmetics, skincare and haircare products called Nuance by Salma Hayek, to be sold at CVS stores in North America. She was inspired to create a cosmetic line from her grandmother, who used to make her own facial care products.

Hayek was also featured in a series of Spanish language commercials for Lincoln cars. In spring 2006, the Blue Star Contemporary Art Center in San Antonio, Texas displayed 16 portrait paintings by muralist George Yepes and filmmaker Robert Rodriguez of Hayek as Aztec goddess Itzpapalotl.