Salma Hayek celebrates 55th birthday in swimsuit post - but fans refuse to believe her age

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Salma Hayek celebrates 55th birthday in swimsuit post - but fans refuse to believe her age

Salma Hayek has celebrated her 55th birthday in style - but some fans still can't get their heads around her actual age.

Earlier this month, the Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard turned 55, and decided to mark the occasion with a stunning swimsuit pic on her Instagram.

Sharing the snap with her 18.7 million followers, the Mexican-American star captioned the post: "Happy 55th birthday to me [...] looking forward to new adventures #grateful".

Hayek looked incredible in a bright blue one-piece swimsuit, as she stood in the tropical seas and gazed out into the distance. As of this writing, the post has amassed over 1.2 million 'likes'.

Celebs like Jason Momoa, Richard Madden, and Hayek's After the Sunset co-star Pierce Brosnan also sent the actor some love in the comments section.

But it was her fans' responses that served as a birthday treat for Hayek, with many of them refusing to believe that she was actually 55 years old.

"Don’t like a day older 25 [Mamacita]," one person commented. Another person simply wrote: "55? No way."

A third asked: "55? WHERE?"

Over on Twitter, one person tweeted: "Wow, @salmahayek is 55? I thought she was early 40's."

Hayek also shared a video of her celebrating her birthday alongside her Marvel Eternals co-star Angelina Jolie.

In the clip, a hesitant Jolie can be seen performing the Mexican tradition "mordida" - in which the person whose birthday it is has their face pushed into a cake for their first celebratory bite.

With Hayek holding her hair out of her face, Jolie can be seen shoving her friend's face into the cake, before covering her face and laughing.

Hayek captioned the post: "My brother @hayekstudio and me trying to teach Angie how to do the mexican mordida [sic]."

The pair appear to have become close friends since starring in Chloe Zhao's upcoming MCU movie, with Hayek writing on Instagram: "Gosh am I so lucky... I thought I was just going to be working with great actors playing aliens; little did I know, I was going to befriend amazing human beings."

In the cute snap, Hayek can be seen smiling in between the Maleficent star and Kumail Nanjiani.

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