Hilaria Baldwin has been forced to defend her fluctuating Spanish accent – admitting her name is ‘Hillary’.
Alec Baldwin’s wife took to Instagram Sunday morning after a Twitter storm erupted after a tweet that read: “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s dedication to her decade-long engraving of posing as a Spanish person.”
Baldwin’s own bio on her agency’s speaker site states that she was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain, and grew up in Boston. Her 2016 interview with Hola! magazine also stated, “Hilaria, who was born in Spain, made sure to raise her children in her native language, Spanish.”
During TV appearances she spoke with a distinct Spanish accent, and once during a cooking clip she even seemingly forgot the English word for ‘cucumber’.
However, the mother of five left-wing fans was confused when she broke an American accent on Instagram last week to complain about her shame after Amy Schumer comically posted a photo of Baldwin wearing lingerie and holding her newborn son Eduardo Pau Lucas.
Internet research then claimed that Baldwin’s real name is actually Hillary Hayword-Thomas, and that she grew up in Massachusetts. Former classmates came forward when someone tweeted, “I went to high school with her. A really nice person, I remember, but completely a white Cambridge girl. “
Another said, “I went to high school with her. She was very nice and serious about ballroom dancing. Indeed, her name was Hillary Hayward-Thomas, and she did not have her current accent.
“I believe she and her brother Jeremy grew up (too nice) in Boston and were white people.”
Although Baldwin is listed in April as an alum of the Cambridge School of Weston School in Weston, Massachusetts, she told Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriages that she moved from Spain to New York at the age of 19 to go to NYU: came for school and i never, never left. “
Asked if she would “ever want to move back” to Mallorca, she replied, “All the time.”
Baldwin’s parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayword and David Thomas do live in Mallorca after leaving the United States in 2011.
The yoga teacher returned on Sunday regarding her Spanish heritage via an Instagram video, in which she said, “There are some things that need clarification” and, “There are some questions about where I was born, I was born in. Boston … I spent part of my childhood in Boston, part of my childhood in Spain, my family, my brother, my parents, my cousin, everyone is there now in Spain, I’m here. ”
She said she grew up with both English and Spanish and tries to raise her children bilingually.
She responded to questions about her accent and said in the video, “I am that person, if I have spoken a lot of Spanish I tend to mix them or if I speak a lot of English I mix that, it’s one of those things I’ve always been a little insecure about. “
She said she tries to “preach” for work, but added that when she gets “nervous or upset,” she starts mixing the two languages. “It’s not something I’m playing on … I want that to be very, very clear,” she said.
Speaking of her name, she said: “Growing up, I used the name Hillary in this country, and in Spain I used Hilaria and my family, my parents, called me Hilaria. She said that “it always bothered her” that neither name sounded right in both languages.
A few years before meeting her famous husband, she said she “consolidated” things because it got confusing, and that she uses the name Hilaria because her family calls her that.
“One of the things I like about how my parents called me, it means luckily in both languages, we can all be very clear it’s the same name, it’s just a few letters different, we wouldn’t be so upset about it should be, “she said, adding,” Whatever you want to call me, I’ll respond to both. “
She added, “Ultimately, this boils down to this idea where this is a country with many different cultures and I think we can be different parts of ourselves with different people,” and, “I’m someone I’m really lucky. that I grew up with two cultures, I grew up speaking two languages. “
She said, “Yes, I am a white girl, my family is white… Europe has a lot of white people in it. Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many things. She also called herself a “different kind of Bostonian … you can’t change your background and I wouldn’t want to … this is who I am, and this is my life story … it’s my weird mix of who I am am. “
Baldwin later posted another Insta video in which she said she won’t apologize for living between two countries, having two cultures, and speaking two languages - or spelling her name differently.
She clarified that her mother is not Hispanic, as previously stated in other reports.
‘I care because it’s about being authentic – and then when people say I’m not authentic, it hurts my feelings … I don’t really understand why it’s getting such a big deal.
‘I’m being attacked because I am who I am … people who want to call me Spanish or America, can’t they be both? It’s frustrating, that’s my story. “