Salma Hayek opens up about experiencing imposter syndrome before her SI Swimsuit cover photoshoot

Salma Hayek opens up about experiencing imposter syndrome before her SI Swimsuit cover photoshoot

I had a very bad case of in impostor syndrome. No way. But look at you. You look so beautiful. Eventually I said yes. And then when it was time to do it, I I I tried to back out. Oh no. And I started to say no because the bathing suits never fit me. How am I going to do this? There’s nothing my size. I always suffer. They send me 200 bathing suits. I tried them. I tried about a hundred. Jeez. More than a hundred. A lot of them needed to be uh altered. And then I was I was in LA. So we did all the alterations in LA. I took the suitcase with me to Mexico because of course we shot it in Mexico. And guess what? They lost the suitcase. No. Come on. Yeah. After. So then what? So what you they had a small selection of extras there that you know went with the magazine and that’s what I wore. So you will see they don’t all fit perfectly. I’m glad I saw the pictures. They seem like they fit just fine. If they’re extra small, it was accidental. And I was really not not confident and very nervous. And then I showed up feeling, oh my, what am I doing here? The first shot is on the beach. I stood up and a whale jump behind me, which they didn’t get because it was like just as I walked in and all of a sudden I felt This is magical. This is like my land. I’m 58.

Salma Hayek opens up on TODAY about experiencing imposter syndrome before her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2025 cover photoshoot, the challenges she faced in the lead up and how her mindset shifted once she got to Mexico for the shoot.