Salma Hayek's spur-of-the-moment decision to breastfeed a desperate mum's hungry baby during a fact-finding trip to Sierra Leone, Africa in 2008 is something that runs in her family.The Latino actress reveals her great-grandmother did something similar when she came across a young mum sobbing in the street.
Hayek says, "My great-grandmother was in a Mexican little village (sic) and they found a woman on the street inconsolably crying and the baby was also crying, crying, crying, and my great-grandmother went up to her and said, 'What is the matter?'
"(She said) 'My baby is very hungry and I have no more milk,' and, in the street, my great-grandmother took the baby from her, took her breasts out and breastfed that baby, who instantly stopped crying and went peacefully to sleep."
Footage of Hayek feeding the hungry baby in Sierra Leone as the tot's worried and grateful mother looked on, has now been posted on community website YouTube.com.