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– It’s a safe bet Amy Schumer wouldn’t have expected a funny online post featuring Alec’s wife Hilaria Baldwin to cause such a firestorm. It started earlier this week, when 36-year-old Hilaria, a yoga instructor, posted a photo of herself wearing underwear, holding her new son Eduardo. Jokingly, Schumer reposted the photo to her own Instagram feed, pretending the photo was of her and her son Gene. People. Most commenters take it lightly, but others managed to turn it against Hilaria and accuse her of body-shaming. Hilaria responded with a video in which she defended herself, while making it clear that she has no ill will against Schumer. “My only concern is that it seemed to get out of hand,” she says in the video.
Hilaria says she’s all for body positivity, but says it should apply to people of all shapes and sizes, including hers. “There’s something like, ‘Oh, moms don’t look like that,’” she says, reports USA Today. Some mothers do. This mother does. And I am included in the inclusion. ‘ Schumer himself replied, “I’m sorry!” to the video and deleted the funny post from her page. But she’s a comedian after all. On Thursday, Schumer posted another photo of Alec and Hilaria trying to round up their kids for a photo and again passed it on as her own family. “Chris and I had such a lovely day with the kids,” she wrote in the caption, referring to her husband. (Read more Amy Schumer stories.)