Hilaria Baldwin, wife of actor Alec Baldwin, has been the subject of controversy this week as she faces accusations on the internet that she is faking a Spanish accent and falsely claiming to have been born in Mallorca, Spain.
In the wake of all this drama, the author, yoga instructor and podcaster clarified that she was actually born in Boston, Massachusetts, and that she identifies herself as “a white girl” – with the proviso that “Europe has many whites ”And“ ethnically I am a mixture of many, many, many things. ”She also said that Hilary Thomas was born, but says that she decided to“ consolidate ”the two names when she married Alec.
Over the years, Baldwin also said that she moved from Spain to the USA for the first time when she was 19 to study at NYU, and that she had Spanish parents. But others claim to have gone to school with her in Massachusetts, and his parents seem to have recently moved to Spain in 2011.
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As Oprah once asked, “So, what’s the truth?” For your pleasure, we’ve compiled a collection of seven times that Baldwin dropped his Spanish accent and became a normal American white girl.
One of the most publicized clips is this 2012 ABC interview, right after her wedding to Alec Baldwin. In the clip, she puts on a very strong Spanish accent, but seems to come and go at the beginning of the sentences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkaW3acUp7Q
This “Extra” interview from the beginning of the same year also features many confusing accent changes. Listen to how she says, “And I don’t remember the rest because I started crying” at the 16-second mark, and how she sounds different at the 50-second mark when she says “With us, everything is – we talk about everything. We have no secrets. “
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And, of course, there is the infamous “Today” cooking segment, in which she has an even heavier Spanish accent and seems to forget how to say the word “cucumber” in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu5-OqiNO7k
But in this 2018 “Today” interview with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager, she ditches her accent completely and sounds like just another Massachusetts suburban mom.
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Here she is again in 2016 with her husband Alec and two of their children, Carmen Gabriela and Rafael Thomas, discussing what they should call their third child (they ended up going with Leonardo Angel Charles, and later added Romeo Alejandro David and Eduardo Pau Lucas). But in the clip, his Spanish accent is nowhere again.
In this 2019 Elle video, she mostly prefers the American accent, but occasionally uses some soft Spanish pronunciations.
Even in her Instagram video on Sunday, in which she tries to explain herself, she speaks predominantly with an American accent, but still announces words like “really” with remarkably Spanish diction.