ITthis week, a detail on Twitter sketched as Hilaria Baldwin, the wife of the influential actor (and once SNL star) Alec Baldwin, committed “a decade of imitating a Spanish person.”
The user, who passes the handle @lenibriscoe, shared several scary videos with “Hilaria”, from a Good morning America the appearance in which she used a Spanish accent at a Today show stop in which he was supposed to not be able to remember the English word for “cucumber”.
Further posts showed Hilaria’s mother discussing growing up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and numerous articles show how she spent most of her career practicing medicine in Massachusetts, where she served as “associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor. a medical assistant at Harvard Medical School ”until he“ retired from both positions in 2012, ”according to MassLive. (In video interview she said she moved to Mallorca, Spain, in 2011, the same year Hilaria began meeting Alec.) An obituary for Hilary’s grandfather from her father said he was an American with roots in the country. “It was before the American Revolution,” while a wedding announcement indicated that her grandfather’s first wife (and the mother of their children) was from Nebraska.
CAA spokeswoman Hilaria Baldwin claims she was born in Mallorca, Spain, as is her IMDb biography and Wikipedia page. She said on a podcast earlier this year: “I moved here [to America] when I was 19 to go to NYU from … my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca “, adding” I didn’t know any pop culture “. She arranged his cover Hello! the magazine, a Spanish-language publication based in Madrid, where she was identified as Spanish in both the interview and his press release. Alec Baldwin repeated called “Spanish” online. And he did a series of appearances in Latin magazine, which he enthusiastically promoted (Spain is not part of Latin America, by the way) and has she referred to Spain as her “home.”
If that wasn’t enough, her five children with Baldwin all have Spanish names.
It looks like Hilary’s real name is Hillary Hayward-Thomas, according to her old MySpace page and the latter. who claim to be her old classmates. She attended Cambridge Private School in Weston, Massachusetts, and in her senior yearbook she is listed as “Hillary Hayward-Thomas”:
A search by Nexis revealed that New York voters are registering under the name “Hilaria L. Baldwin” and “Hillary Hayward-Thomas.”
In light of the Twitter Speech, Hilaria took to Instagram to explain her opinion on the story. “The first thing I told my husband was that I was born in Boston,” she said. “I spent most of my childhood in Spain. My nuclear family has lived and lived in Spain for a long time. And I came here – I was moving a lot, but I came here when I was 19 to go to college. “
She continued: “I never said that my mother is Spanish, my family is a big mix of so many different things … I don’t really understand why this turns into something so big. I want to take her seriously, but I don’t even want her to be suddenly, I apologize for who I am. Because, right now, I’m starting to feel like I’m being attacked for who I am and that no answer is the right answer. “
“It looks like Hilary’s real name is Hillary.“
Alec Baldwin also joined Instagram and, within a whirling eight minutes, seemed to deny that there was any merit in the controversy surrounding Hilary.
“Most of what was said and – again, I don’t want to list what those things are – is false,” he said. “And some of them are so spectacularly false … No matter how much it hurts me, the only thing I can do is talk to that half of the audience or a part of the audience that understands what I mean when I say: “Consider the source. ‘Consider the source. ”
Now, there is still the possibility that Hilaria Baldwin spent a considerable amount of time in Spain as a child and had a passion for Spanish culture, but it does not seem likely that she is Spanish. (Her New York Times the wedding announcement says “she was raised in Boston and Spain.”)
In a bizarre twist, the first person to appear to have called Hilaria Baldwin in all of this is none other than Genevieve Sabourin, Alec Baldwin’s stalker. In 2012, Sabourin wrote on Twitter: “Alec Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria, REAL name: Hilary Hayward-Thomas. She was eventually convicted of pursuing Alec Baldwin and sentenced to six months in prison.