Hilaria Baldwin, author and wife of actor Alec Baldwin, addressed the online controversy over her Spanish heritage, accent and name over the weekend.
In a video posted on Instagram on Sunday, Baldwin said he was born in Boston and “grew up” in Massachusetts and Spain speaking Spanish and English.
She said she and her husband are trying to raise their children in a bilingual home.
“I tend to mix them up,” said Baldwin of Spanish and English. “This is just something I’ve always been a little unsure about.”
“When I was growing up in this country, I used the name Hillary and in Spain I used the name Hilaria, and my family, like my parents, called me Hilaria, my whole family called me Hilaria,” she said.
“A few years before I met Alec, I decided to consolidate the two,” she said, “and I identify more with Hilaria, because that’s what my family calls me.”
“Whatever you want to call me, I will answer both,” she said.
However, Baldwin’s profile at the Casting Agency of America says that she “was born in Majorca, Spain, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts”.
A public record poll shows that Hilaria Baldwin was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas and was registered to vote under that name in New York until at least 2008.
Last week, several Twitter users posted long chains of music videos showing Baldwin under development and losing a Spanish accent.
In an appearance on the “TODAY” program in 2015, released last week, Baldwin apparently forgot the English word for cucumber.
In a 2020 podcast interview published online, Baldwin said, “I moved here when I was 19 to go to NYU.”
“In?” one of the interviewers asked Baldwin.
“From? My family lives in Spain, they live in Majorca,” replied Baldwin.
However, Baldwin wrote on his own Twitter account in 2012 who was born in Boston.
A Baldwin spokesman directed reporters to the video she shared on Instagram and declined to comment further.
Alec Baldwin also posted a video on Sunday entitled “Consider the source …” with sinuous thoughts about “poison” and “hate” on social media, “pizzagate” and “Epstein”.
