Salma Hayek was in New Orleans recently to visit the first green home built in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans as part of the Global Green project. Global Green USA is the American branch of the international Green Cross organization originally founded by Mikhail Gorbachev to "foster a shift of global values towards a sustainable and secure future."

In September of 2002, Thalia’s two sisters Ernestina and Laura were kidnapped while leaving a theater in Mexico City. Laura Zapata, a popular Mexican soap actress, was held for 16 days. Ernestina Sodi, a writer and former Miss Mexico, would endure a total of 36 days of mental and physical abuse—losing 70 percent of her vision as a result of being blindfolded for hours at a time. Thalia rounded up the hefty ransom and her sisters were eventually set free.