What's her secret? As Penelope Cruz turns 50, a look at how the smoldering star is aging in reverse (hint: she uses Bioidentical hormones)

Penelope Cruz is turning 50-years-old connected April 28 and she seems to beryllium looking guardant to it.

'Turning 50, it's a huge, beautiful thing, and I really want to observe that pinch each my friends,' she told Elle earlier this year. 

The prima from Spain does not look to property arsenic she looks unthinkable youthful while approaching nan large milestone.

With her wrinkle-free face, heavy achromatic hairsbreadth and mini but toned frame, nan siren has managed to support herself very good preserved, making her look for illustration she is successful her precocious 30s and not almost 50.

She has logic to enactment young-looking: nan Oscar winning character not only acts connected nan large screen, but she besides models for Chanel and Lancome.

The woman of Javier Bardem, pinch whom she has 2 children, has addressed staying young looking saying she eats full foods, uses wrinkle creams, takes Bioidentical hormones, useful retired astir 4 times a week, sleeps 8 hours a nighttime and meditates.

The Vanilla Sky prima besides told Elle that she is often asked astir ageing. 'People person been asking maine astir property since I was twenty-something,' she shared. 'I was much bothered past than now.'

Still, she must beryllium alert of trying to enactment young looking to support her spot connected apical of nan A-list.

Turns out, she goes to awesome lengths to support that glow arsenic she sleeps plenty, eats good and moves her assemblage often. 

SKIN 

In 2021, Cruz told Elle Canada she is mindful of nan wellness of her skin.

'I hydrate my tegument pinch Lancôme Rénergie Lift Multi-Action Ultra,' she said. 'And I usage Lancôme Hydra Zen Anti-Stress Moisturizing Cream-in-Gel. It’s cleanable for erstwhile your tegument needs other hydration. I usage it each day.

'I do barren assemblage brushing each erstwhile successful a while; it helps to destruct toxins,' she besides told nan publication.

'Also, my constitution artist, Pablo Iglesias, utilized a jade roller connected maine connected nan group of our past movie, and conjecture what? It really works.'

And Penelope uses Bioidentical hormones.

'I’m perpetually reference astir nutrition and medicine, particularly erstwhile it comes to hormones. 

'I person learned truthful overmuch successful nan past fewer years from doctors for illustration Habib Sadeghi, Nigma Talib, Valentín Fuster and Dominique Fradin-Read, and I’m truthful grateful for nan unthinkable knowledge they share.'

HAIR

The photogenic wonderment takes awesome attraction of her hairsbreadth because her mother utilized to ain a hairsbreadth salon. 

'I cognize a fewer tricks for keeping it healthy. I cognize really to cut, colour and blow-dry people’s hair,' she offered. 

'I did Salma Hayek’s hairsbreadth and constitution correct earlier a premiere once; nan location mislaid powerfulness truthful I had to do it by candlelight! It was a challenge.'

When it comes to styling her ain raven locks, she often does it herself.

'I support it natural,' shared nan Volver star. 'If I’m having a bad-hair day, I make it moreover messier by adding immoderate barren shampoo for volume.' 

 EXERCISE

The looker has besides talked her routine. She wakes up astir 7:30am each greeting because she needs 'seven aliases 8 hours of slumber a night.'

She added to Elle Canada: 'If I’m not working, I effort to workout successful nan morning. I studied classical ballet for 17 years, and it had truthful galore benefits for me. Now I conscionable do guidance activity and a small cardio for an hr astir 3 aliases 4 times a week.

'I besides practice Transcendental Meditation; I did it for years successful my 20s, and it really helped me. An occasional agelong massage is besides great.'

Cruz is besides known to deed nan gym erstwhile successful Los Angeles and has taken to Pilates. 

Often she does Bikram yoga which is simply a strategy of basking yoga, a type of yoga arsenic exercise, dispersed by Bikram Choudhury and based connected nan teachings of B. C. Ghosh. 

DIET

The reddish carpet favourite eats sensibly.

And she besides does not skip breakfast. 'I person meal pinch my family.... Eggs, fruit, homemade cereals aliases spelt toast and sometimes celery juice,' said nan pinup.  

'I besides return immoderate earthy supplements and person an integrated macromolecule shake. I emotion integrated arabica java pinch almond milk, but I person nary much than 2 a day.'

As acold arsenic her fridge, it is stocked pinch patient options: 'We person tons of integrated consequence and vegetables and free-range nutrient and fish. In our cupboards, we person quinoa, pasta, brownish rice, coconut sugar, stevia and chocolate. 

'I emotion eating healthily. I don’t travel a peculiar diet, but I emotion organic, patient food; my kids besides eat this way.'

Cruz besides uses her Vitamix 5200 to make home-made gazpacho.

'In Spain we eat gazpacho almost each day, truthful you get a batch of vegetables successful a measurement that is very delicious,' she told InStyle. 

CAREER 

'The astir difficult point successful nan world is to commencement a profession known only for your looks, and past to effort to go a superior actress. No 1 will return you earnestly erstwhile you are known arsenic nan beautiful woman,' she has said.

But she has managed to beryllium recognized arsenic a very tin actress. 

Cruz made her acting debut connected tv astatine 16 past was successful nan movie Jamón Jamón (1992) pinch Bardem.

She past went connected to onshore sizable roles successful Belle Époque (1992), Open Your Eyes (1997), Don Juan (1998), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000), and Woman connected Top (2000). 

Her champion activity has been pinch Spanish head Pedro Almodóvar successful Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), I'm So Excited! (2013), Pain and Glory (2019), and Parallel Mothers (2021).

She won her Oscar moving for Woody Allen successful Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008). When she filmed Vanilla Sky (2001) pinch Tom Cruise, they started dating. She besides worked pinch Johnny Depp connected Blow (2001) and Pirates of nan Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011).

More precocious she has been successful Murder connected nan Orient Express (2017), Everybody Knows (2018), Official Competition (2022), L'immensità (2022) and Ferrari (2023).

She received a Primetime Emmy Award information for her domiciled arsenic Donatella Versace successful nan miniseries The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018).

She wed Spanish character Bardem successful 2010 aft they starred successful Vicky Cristina Barcelona. 

And Cruz has modeled a ton. She worked for Mango, Ralph Lauren, L'Oréal, Chanel and Lancome.