Some people take a boat to get somewhere. Salma Hayek takes a boat to dance on the table, and she has the hashtag to prove it. When we first wrote about her yacht photos, in July 2022, she was 55 and her feed was all sun, sails and swimwear. She turned 60 on September 2, 2026, and the feed hasn’t changed much. What has changed is how loudly she now explains it.
The yacht post that started this page
The photo that sent us here was posted on June 7, 2022, with a caption made of exactly two hashtags: #dancingontables and #sailing. I like a caption that does not explain itself. You get the sea, you get the mood, you work out the rest.
The sea is not a pose for her. Hayek was born in Coatzacoalcos, a port city in Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico, and grew up by the water. She has been married to François-Henri Pinault since 2009, and their holidays tend to end up on a boat or in a pool, which is fair enough for someone who grew up on the Gulf.
The birthday swimsuit has become a tradition
Every September she posts a birthday photo, and every year it’s a swimsuit. For her 58th, in 2024, she posted a yellow bikini in Ibiza with the caption “Yellow bikini + White hair = perfect combination.” For her 59th, in 2025, a crimson two-piece at sunset with a red drink to match and the line “59 trips around the sun and still dancing.”
My read is that the important word in 2024 was not “bikini.” It was “white hair.” Hollywood has spent decades telling actresses to hide grey hair, and she wrote it into the caption.
The Sports Illustrated cover at 58
In May 2025 she was named one of four cover stars of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, alongside Jordan Chiles, Olivia Dunne and Lauren Chan. Ruven Afanador photographed her at Cuixmala, a resort on the Pacific coast of Mexico, in a green Johanna Ortiz bikini. Her explanation was simple: “I don’t see why, after a certain age, we have to retract ourselves from embracing life to the fullest.”
I think that line explains the whole feed better than any of our old captions did. The 2022 version of this page was busy admiring her “toned body in every detail” and wondering how she stays in shape. She was making a different point: a woman over 50 does not have to leave the beach.
Sixty, in the water
For her 60th, she did not post a swimsuit at all. The series she shared the week of her birthday shows her in the water without makeup, wet hair over one shoulder with the natural grey showing, and a caption of three words: “60 and grateful.” Fans answered with lines like “You give the 60s beautiful hope!”
What strikes me is how quiet it is. There is no product, no announcement, no film to promote. A woman turns 60 and goes swimming. It’s the best birthday post she has made.
What she actually says about her routine
Our old page credited a list of gym tricks that we could not trace to anything she said, so here is only what is on the record. In a 2015 interview she said: “I don’t do cardio, I mean, I didn’t do it when I was young. But I do like yoga.” In the same interview she described bone broth, the dish she swears by, as “sort of disgusting. You take a bunch of bones from a cow and slow-cook them for many hours.” (A rare celebrity recommendation that comes with a warning.)
In 2023, on Kelly Ripa’s podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera, Ripa asked her directly about Botox. Her answer: “No Botox.” She talked about meditation instead, which she said helps with a herniated disc and with problems in her neck, hip and ankles. I like that she gave the boring, true answer: her routine is partly about pain, not looks.
Back at work: Grown Ups 3 and Sacrifice
The yacht season is over for now. In late August 2026 she was photographed with Adam Sandler on a ride at an amusement park in New Jersey, both in bright orange rain jackets, on the set of Netflix’s Grown Ups 3. Netflix has confirmed the film, directed by Kyle Newacheck, but has not given a release date. Sixteen years after the first film, Hollywood has sent her back to a theme park.
Before that comes Sacrifice, Romain Gavras’s satire with Chris Evans and Anya Taylor-Joy, in which she plays a pop star named Gloria Bracken. It premiered at Toronto in 2025 and comes to Netflix in the US on October 16, 2026.
My take
In 2022 we called this a story about a body on a yacht. Four years later it reads as a story about a woman who decided the beach was not something she would age out of, and then posted about it every September. The table dancing, as far as we can tell, is still on. Follow her at @salmahayek.
Sources
- Salma Hayek on Instagram, September 2026
- Salma Hayek on Instagram: #dancingontables #sailing (June 7, 2022)
- Salma Hayek Pinault on Instagram
- The Daily Beast: Hayek’s “60 and grateful” birthday post (Sept. 8, 2026)
- TODAY: Hayek celebrates her 59th birthday (Sept. 2, 2025)
- People via AOL: Hayek’s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover at 58
- SI Swimsuit: Salma Hayek Pinault
- HOLA!: Hayek on Let’s Talk Off Camera, “No Botox” (2023)
- Glamour: Hayek on bone broth and yoga (2015)
- Entertainment Now: Sandler and Hayek on the Grown Ups 3 set (Sept. 2026)
- Wikipedia: Sacrifice (2025 film)
- Wikipedia: Salma Hayek
