Hilaria Baldwin was forced to defend her floating Spanish accent – and admitted that her name is “Hillary”.
Alec Baldwin’s wife accessed Instagram on Sunday morning after a Twitter storm broke out after a tweet that said: “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her long decade of life, where she pretends to be a Spaniard.
Baldwin’s own biography on his agency’s speaker website states that she was born on the island of Mallorca in Spain and raised in Boston. Your 2016 interview with Hola! The magazine also stated: “Hilaria, who was born in Spain, took care to raise her children in her native language, Spanish.”
During TV appearances, she spoke with a strong Spanish accent and, on one occasion, during a culinary segment she even apparently forgot the English word for “cucumber”.
However, the mother of five confused fans when she blew up an American accent on Instagram last week to mourn the body’s shame after Amy Schumer comedically published a photo of Baldwin wearing lingerie and holding her newborn son Eduardo Pau Lucas.
The Internet investigation then claimed that Baldwin’s real name is actually Hillary Hayword-Thomas, and that she grew up in Massachusetts. Former classmates introduced themselves as a tweet: “I went to school with her. A really lovely person, I remember, but a totally white girl from Cambridge. “
Another said: “I did high school with her. She was perfectly cool and serious about ballroom dancing. Her name was in fact Hillary Hayward-Thomas and she didn’t have her current accent.
“I believe that she and her brother Jeremy (also legal) grew up in Boston and were white.”
Although Baldwin was listed as a former student at the Cambridge School of Weston School in Weston, Massachusetts, in April, she said “Maternity, Marriage and Abortion Abortions” who moved from Spain to New York when she was 19 to study at NYU: “I came to school and I never, never left. “
Asked if she “would like to return” to Majorca, she replied: “All the time”.
Baldwin’s parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayword and David Thomas, live in Majorca after they left the United States in 2011.
The yoga teacher replied on Sunday about her Spanish heritage through an Instagram video, in which she said, “There are some things that need to be clarified” and, “There have been some doubts 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 nephew, everyone is there in Spain now, I am here. “
She said she grew up speaking English and Spanish and is trying to educate her children as bilingual.
Answering questions about her accent, she said in the video: “I am that person, if I have been speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix it up or if I am speaking a lot of English I mix it up, it is one of those things I have always been a little insecure about. “
She said she tries to “enunciate” for the job, but added that if she gets “nervous or upset” she starts to mix the two languages. “It’s not something I’m playing … I want it to be very, very clear,” she said.
Discussing her name, she said: “When I was a child, in this country I used the name Hillary and in Spain I used Hilaria and my family, my parents, called me Hilaria. She said she “always bothered her” that neither name sounded good in both languages.
A few years before meeting her famous husband, she said that she “consolidated” things as she got confused, and that she uses the name Hilaria because that’s what her family calls her.
“One of the things I love about my parents’ name is that it means happiness in both languages, we can all make it very clear that it is the same name, it has only a few different letters, we shouldn’t be so upset about it,” she said, adding : “Whatever you want to call me, I will answer both”.
She added: “At the end of the day, it comes down to this idea that this is a country of many different cultures and I think we can be different parts of ourselves with different people” and “I am someone that I feel very lucky 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 many whites in them. Ethnically, I am a mixture of many, many things. ”She also called herself a” different type of Bostonian … you can’t change your background and neither would I … this is who I am, and this is the story of my life … it’s my strange mix of who I am.”
Baldwin later posted another Insta video, saying that she will not apologize for living between two countries, having two cultures and speaking two languages - or for writing her name differently.
She clarified that her mother is not Spanish, as other reports have already stated.
“I care because my business is to be authentic – and so if people say I’m not authentic, it hurts my feelings … I really don’t understand why this is becoming such a big deal.
“I’m being attacked for being who I am … people wanting to label me Spanish or American, can’t they be both? It is frustrating this is my story. “