Salma Hayek has said that one of the symptoms she didn’t expect when she started going through menopause was the enlargement of her breasts.

Today, the 54-year-old actress appeared on a new edition of Red Table Talk, where she discussed her menopausal symptoms, which she has been dealing with for almost a decade.

“A lot of people said that I had breast augmentation. I don’t blame them! My boobs were smaller! So was the rest of my body,” the 54-year-old actress said Wednesday on “Red Table Talk,” the Facebook Watch series Jada Pinkett Smith co-hosts with her daughter Willow Smith and mother Adrienne Banfield-Norris.

Her growth, on the other hand, is entirely natural. It occurred often during life transitions such as pregnancy, menopause, and periods of weight increase, according to Hayek.

‘I’ll tell you what they don’t tell you. The boobs grow — a lot,’ she said.

‘For some women they get smaller. But there are some women that when you gain weight, your boobs grow, and other women that when you have children and you breastfeed your boobs grow and they don’t go back down, and then in some of the cases when you are in menopause, they grow again.

‘And I just happen to be one of those women that it happened in every, single step! When I gain weight, when I got pregnant, and when I am in menopause.’

It’s been a problem for her since her breasts “just kept growing,” she added.

“Many, many sizes. And my back has been really suffering from it,” she said. “And not a lot of people talk about this.”

Hayek also began discussing some of the signs and symptoms of menopause, many of which she had not anticipated.

Hayek said, “I’ve been menopausal for a long time. I think since I was 40 years old.

“I had to take a test and the questions were terrifying.

“They were asking me things like, ‘Are your ears growing and there’s hair growing out of them? Are you growing a moustache and a beard? Are you easily irritable? Are you crying for no reason? Are you gaining a lot of weight really fast that doesn’t go away no matter what you do? Are you shrinking?’ And then they ask you, ‘Is your vagina dry?’ ”

‘Nobody’s coming near you at night,’ she joked, so it doesn’t matter if all of those horrible things are true.

She has had mood swings and heat flashes, but she tries to stay cheerful.

‘I have gone through those periods, I still kind of am, but you got to kind of notice those moments and take a deep breath and kind of say, “Okay, it’ll pass. You got to hold it together.” And also the hot flashes aren’t fun,’ she said.

However, as she has gotten older, she has learned that clichés about women being done at a particular age are a terribly damaging story.

“There’s no expiration dates for women. That has to go. Because you can kick ass at any age. You can hold your own at any age, you can dream at any age, you can be romantic at any age,” she said. “We have the right to be loved for who we are at the place that we are. We’re not just here to make babies, we’re not just here to baby the men.

‘We’re not just here to service everything and everyone around us and then when the kids go away.

‘It’s almost like expiration date for the eggs, that means expiration date for you as a woman. It’s a misunderstanding that has been going around for centuries.’