The presence of animals calms us. And Salma Hayek understood this well. This Sunday, the 57-year-old actress and producer indulged in a meditative session with her owl resting on the top of her head. “I like to meditate with an owl on my head,” she said in the caption of the video published on April 14 on her Instagram account.
Cross-legged, eyes closed and dressed in a t-shirt bearing the image of Janis Joplin, Salma Hayek seems to be fully enjoying this moment spent with her pet. The Mexican actress has never hidden her affection for this owl, named Kering - in homage to the luxury company run by her husband, François-Henri Pinault. Originally, it was to him that she had given the animal for Valentine's Day, she told
People
magazine in 2021 . Receiving his gift, François-Henri Pinault said to him: “Well, thank you, but I know that you first made this gift for yourself.” Since then, the producer has maintained a special bond with said owl. “When my husband is not there, she sleeps in the room with me. We have our little habits before bed. I'm watching TV on my iPad and she's standing above it,” she confided to the American magazine.
Anti-aging meditation
Salma Hayek practices meditation to “slow down skin aging.” This is what she said in an episode of the American podcast
Let's talk off camera
, broadcast in July 2023. “Because of many pains in my body and health problems, in a certain way I developed this strange form of meditation that I continue to evolve,” she already said a year ago. “I can do this for hours because I don't feel the time passing, and it's so much fun! It's not about sitting and thinking about nothing. It's about feeling the energy. It moves and dances inside you, there are different feelings and sensations.” Five minutes during the day is enough to feel “powerful” effects, she said. Results ? "When I do it, sometimes when I walk out of the room, people say to me, 'Oh my God. You look like you're 20 years old'."