L.last week, a Twitter sleuth outlined how Hilaria Baldwin, the actor’s influencer wife (and sometimes SNL star) Alec Baldwin, has committed “a decade in which she poses as a Spanish person.”
The user who takes the handle @lenibriscoe, shared some scathing “Hilaria” videos, of one Good morning America appearance where they had a Spanish accent to a Today showstop in which she supposedly couldn’t remember the English word for ‘cucumber’.
Further messages Hilaria’s mother showed her growing up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and numerous articles indicated that she had spent most of her career practicing medicine in Massachusetts, where she had served as “ associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor. in medicine at Harvard Medical School ”until she“ retired from both positions in 2012, ”said MassLive. (In a video interview She said she moved to Majorca, Spain in 2011, the same year Hilaria began dating Alec.) An obituary for Hilaria’s grandfather on her father’s side stated that he was an American with roots in the country that “ dates back to before the American Revolution ‘. While a marriage announcement indicated that her grandfather’s first wife (and mother of their children) was from Nebraska.
Hilaria Baldwin’s CAA speakers page claims she was born in Mallorca, Spain, as does her IMDb bio and Wikipedia page. She said one podcast earlier this year: “I moved here [to America] when I was 19 to go to NYU from … my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca, “adding,” I didn’t know pop culture. “She graced the cover of it Hello! magazine, a Spanish-language publication from Madrid, where they appear both in the interview and in his press release. Alec Baldwin has said repeatedly called her online “Spanish”. And she has made several performances in Latina magazine, which she enthusiastically promotes (Spain is not part of Latin America, by the way), and has Spain called her ‘home’.
As if that wasn’t enough, her five young children with Baldwin all have Spanish names.
Looks like Hilaria’s real name is Hillary Hayward-Thomas, according to her old MySpace page and all who claim to be her old classmates. She attended the private Cambridge School of Weston, Massachusetts, and is listed in her senior yearbook as “Hillary Hayward-Thomas”:
A search for Nexis revealed that her voter registration in New York is under the name “Hilaria L. Baldwin” as well as “Hillary Hayward-Thomas”.
In light of the Twitter discourse, Hilaria took to Instagram to explain her side of the story. “The first thing I told my husband is that I was born in Boston,” she said. “I spent much of my childhood in Spain. My nuclear family lives in Spain and has lived there for a long time. And I came here – I was moving a lot, but I came here when I was 19 years old to go to college. “
She continued, “I never said my mom was Spanish, my family is a great mix of so many different things… I don’t really understand why this is getting such a big deal. I want to take it seriously, but I also don’t want to suddenly apologize for who I am. Because at this point I feel like I’m being attacked for who I am, and that no answer is the right answer. “
“It looks like Hilaria’s real name is Hillary.“
Alec Baldwin also took to Instagram and, over the course of eight meandering minutes, seemed to deny that the controversy surrounding Hilaria had any merit.
“Most of what has been said, and – again, I don’t want to list what those things are – isn’t true,” he claimed. And some of it is so spectacularly wrong … As much as that hurts, all I can do is talk to that half of the audience or any portion of the audience that understands what I’m saying when I say, ‘Think about the source ‘. Consider the source. ”
Now, there is still the possibility that Hilaria Baldwin spent a significant amount of time in Spain as a child and may have a fondness for Spanish culture, but it does not seem likely that she is Spanish. (Her New York Times wedding announcement says she “grew up in Boston and Spain.”)
In a bizarre twist, the first person who appears to have summoned Hilaria Baldwin is none other than Genevieve Sabourin, Alec Baldwin’s stalker. In 2012, Sabourin tweeted, “Alec Baldwin, wife Hilaria REAL name: Hilary Hayward-Thomas. SONG called 911 using her false name. I will submit 4felony.” She was eventually convicted of stalking Alec Baldwin and sentenced to six months in prison.