Salma Hayek turns 50 today

"I'm excited, turning 50 didn't cause sadness or anxiety. It's a nice number, I think when I was younger I thought that at 50 you're already old. I don't feel old at all. I have high hopes to do more things in my life," says a relaxed Salma without a drop of makeup.

“I think the most important thing is not to be bored, that's why you get old, because you have no more expectations or you feel you live in a routine from which you don't know how to get out. I still have a lot of curiosity. When you die, you age.” Salma adds.

Salma recalls when she was younger she thought that the best time in her life would be at 30, but she was wrong.

"You are very optimistic in your twenties and you think you know everything, but when I turned 30 I was depressed, the thirties were the worst time for me. I cried on my 30th birthday: I felt unsuccessful, alone, a little lost, very scared, though I was working, at that age all I could think about was that I should have more achievements. At 30 you realize how difficult life is.

"When I turned 40 I was very happy. I understood that this whole plan I had was not going to happen, but it's OK, no problem. I am not married, I said no problem; I have no children, I said no problem. I had already met Francois -her husband- and I thought, 'hey, is not that bad'. I had already given up and I said, 'wow, I have something extra, I didn't see that coming."

At 50, Salma says she feels she has done many things of which she is proud.

One of these things is she made her way into Hollywood at a time when there was no place for Latinos.