The Academy Award-nominated actress Salma Hayek spoke out in a new interview to open up about what it was like to begin experiencing menopause in her mid-40s.

While appearing on the latest episode of “Red Table Talk,” Hayek was Jada Pinkett Smith’s mom Adrianne Banfield-Norris if she’s currently experiencing menopause symptoms.

“Oh my god, yes,” Hayek said, adding that she’s actually been experiencing symptoms since she was in her mid-40s.

The Mayo Clinic defines menopause as the time in a woman’s life that marks the end of one’s menstrual cycles. While it can happen in your 40s or 50s, the average age is 51 in the United States. Symptoms of menopause include hot flashes as well as emotional symptoms that can lower your energy and affect your emotional health.

“I had to take a test,” Hayek said, according to Entertainment Tonight. “And the questions were terrifying. They were asking me things like, ‘Are your ears growing and there’s hair coming out of them? Are you growing mustache 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?'” she continues, as both Pinkett Smith and her daughter Willow Smith looked visibly shocked. “And then I thought to myself, it doesn’t matter if you have hair coming out of your ears and nose and a mustache and a beard!”

Hayek also addressed rumors that she got plastic surgery to enhance her breasts, adding that she doesn’t “blame” people for thinking that because she agrees that her breasts used to be “smaller.”

“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,” she said, according to Hello! Magazine. “But they have just kept growing. Many, many sizes. And my back has been really suffering from it. And not a lot of people talk about this.”

Hayek went on to say that during menopause, “The boobs grow a lot.”

“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,” she explained. “Then in some of the cases when you are in menopause they grow again. And I just happen to be one of those women where it happened in every, single step!”