On December 27, Hilaria addressed the controversy over her heritage, saying in an Instagram video: “If I have been speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix them up and if I speak more English … then I mix that up.” She added: “I will not apologize for the time I spent in two countries and I will not apologize for speaking two languages and I will not apologize for the fact that I have two versions of my name.”
Three days later, the yoga teacher spoke to The New York Times about the criticism and said that people were “misrepresenting me” when she felt she shared her life story “continuously”.
Alec also defended his wife in recent days, after the couple welcomed their sixth son, daughter Lucia, with the help of a substitute. One person commented on Hilaria’s Instagram announcement on March 1, writing: “Who is the mother? She was not pregnant. She gave birth six months ago.” To which Alec replied, “you should shut up and mind your own business.”
Hilaria and Alec are also the mother and father of Carmen, 7; Rafael, 5; Leonardo, 4; Romeo, two; and Edward, almost 6 months.