Hilaria Baldwin is speaking openly after receiving a huge negative reaction for revealing that she was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and not in Spain, as she had previously suggested.
The 36-year-old yoga / wellness expert reacted to a tweet over the weekend, which said, “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade of girls, where she pretends to be a Spanish woman.” The tweet has since been excluded.
However, this generated a storm of clips and resurgent interviews in which Hilaria, whose real name is Hillary Hayword-Thomas, seems unequivocally to say that she is from Spain and moved to the United States to go to college. In an interview with The New York Times, Baldwin tried to correct some of the things she says are misconceptions about how she performed.
“It’s very surreal,” she told the outlet. “There is nothing I am doing wrong and I think there is a difference between hiding and creating a limit.”
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Baldwin claimed that she was born in Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Boston. She explained in a podcast in April 2020, “I moved here [to America] when I was 19 years old to go to NYU from … my family lives in Spain, they live in Majorca. “The accent of the bilingual mother of five has also fluctuated noticeably over the years when she appeared on TV. In a terrible clip from the” Today “show, she seems to forget the English word for” cucumber “.
Hilaria Baldwin clarified her heritage after facing adverse reactions on social media.
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Meanwhile, his CAA speaker page, Wikipedia and IMDB page previously listed his country of birth as Spain. Since then, CAA has removed any mention of her birthplace, while the latter two have made corrections. Speaking in his last interview, Baldwin blames the false reports and says he never actively misrepresented his inheritance.
For example, she says she is bilingual and usually speaks in several different accents, depending on her mood. When it comes to articles and biographies that incorrectly list her as Spanish, she notes that she does not read articles about herself and therefore did not know that her ethnicity was being reported incorrectly.
As for the “cucumber” moment, she says she was simply nervous about being live on TV and gave a “brain fart”, which is a colloquial term for when a person forgets something basic.
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Baldwin told the channel that examples of her promoting her Spanish heritage reach limits. Although she invites the public into her home and life with her husband, Alec Baldwin, and their five children, she says she values her parents’ privacy.
Her father and mother, David L. Thomas Jr. and Dr. Kathryn Hayward, used to visit Spain for several reasons when she was growing up. Her brother ended up moving there and her parents followed him soon after, in 2011. As it is where her family resides, she said that she did not mind calling Spain “her home”.
In the meantime, to allow her parents to have a private life while she opted for a public life, she says she avoided talking about her education in depth.
Alec Baldwin has defended his wife, Hilaria, after accusations of cultural appropriation.
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“The things I shared about me are very clear,” said Baldwin. “I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 and have lived here ever since. For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing this story over and over . And now it seems that it is not enough. “
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Despite Baldwin’s explanation, many still accuse the influencer of cultural appropriation. She concluded the interview by saying that she does not agree with this comparison, since Spanish culture has been and has been part of her life since she was a child – regardless of where she was born.
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“This has been a part of my life,” she explained, “and I can’t make it disappear just because some people don’t understand.”
Fox News’ Jessica Napoli contributed to this report.