Hilaria Baldwin had to defend her fluctuating Spanish accent – and admitted that her name was “Hillary”.
Alec Baldwin’s wife took to Instagram on Sunday morning after a storm broke out on Twitter following a tweet that read: “You have to admire Hilary Baldwin’s commitment to her decades of care in imitating a Spanish person.”
Baldwin’s own biography on his agency’s website states that he was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain and grew up in Boston. Her 2016 interview with Hola! The magazine also said: “Hilaria, who was born in Spain, made sure she would raise her children in her mother tongue, Spanish.”
During her TV appearances, she spoke with a pronounced Spanish accent and, on one occasion, during a cooking segment. he even seemed to forget English word for “cucumber”.
However, the mother of five fans was confused when an American accent erupted on Instagram last week to mourn her body shame after Amy Schumer posted a comedy photo of Baldwin wearing underwear and holding her son. newborn Eduardo Pau Lucas.
The Internet claimed that Baldwin’s real name was actually Hillary Hayword-Thomas and that he grew up in Massachusetts. Former classmates introduced themselves while one wrote on Twitter: “I went to high school with her. I remember a really nice person, but a white Cambridge girl. “
Another said, “I went to high school with her. She was perfectly nice and serious about ballroom dancing. Her name was really Hillary Hayward-Thomas and she didn’t have the current accent.
“I think she and her brother Jeremy (also cute) grew up in Boston and were white people.”
Although Baldwin is listed as a graduate of Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, Massachusetts, in April, she told “Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriages” that she moved to New York from Spain when she was 19 to attend NYU: “I I came to school and never left. “
Asked if she “would ever want to move back” to Mallorca, she replied: “All the time.”
Baldwin’s parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayword and David Thomas, live in Mallorca after leaving the state in 2011.
The yoga teacher responded on Sunday about her Spanish heritage through a video on Instagram, in which she said: “There are some things that need to be clarified” and “There were some questions 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 now there in Spain, I am here. “
She said she grew up speaking both English and Spanish and is trying to raise her bilingual children.
Answering questions about her accent, she said in the video: “I’m that person, if I speak a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix them or if I speak a lot of English I mix that, it’s one of those things I’ve always been a little unsure about.”
She said she was trying to “say” for work, but added that if she became “nervous or angry”, she would start mixing the two languages. “It’s not something I play … I want it to be very, very clear,” she said.
Discussing her name, she said: “When I was older, in this country I would use the name Hillary, and in Spain I would use Hilaria and my family, my parents, my name is Hilaria. She said it “always bothered her” that no name sounded good in both languages.
A few years before meeting her famous husband, she said that she “strengthened” things, becoming confused and that she uses the name Hilaria, because that’s what her family calls her.
“One of the things I love about what my parents called me is that they are happy in both languages, we can all be very clear that it’s the same name, it’s just a few different letters, we shouldn’t be so upset about it, “she said, adding,” Whatever you want to tell me, I’ll answer both of you. “
She added: “Finally, this boils down to this idea where this is a country with a lot of different cultures and I think we can be different parts of ourselves with different people” and “I’m someone who feels really lucky that 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 a lot of whites in them. Ethnic, they are a mixture of many, many things. ”She also called herself“ another type of Bostonian … you can’t change your past and I wouldn’t want to … this is who I am, and this is my life story … it’s my weird mix who I am. ”
Baldwin later posted another Insta video, saying he would not apologize for living between two countries, having two cultures and speaking two languages - or writing his name differently.
She clarified that her mother is not Spanish, as other reports have previously stated.
“I care because my job is to be genuine – and then if people say I’m not genuine, my feelings hurt … I don’t really understand why it turns into such a big thing.
“I’m attacked because I’m who I am … people who want to label me Spanish or American, can’t they both be? It’s frustrating that it’s my story. “