Hilaria Baldwin has been forced to defend her fluctuating Spanish accent and admitted that her name is “Hillary”.
Alec Baldwin’s wife took to Instagram Sunday morning after a Twitter storm erupted after a tweet that says: “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her struggle for a decade where she impersonates a Spanish person.”
Baldwin’s own biography as his agency’s speaker indicates that he was born on the island of Mallorca, Spain, and grew up in Boston. His 2016 interview with Hello! The magazine also stated: “Hilaria, who was born in Spain, has made sure to raise her children with her mother tongue, Spanish.”
During his television appearances, he has spoken with a strong Spanish accent and on one occasion during a cooking segment he even apparently forgot the English word for “cucumber”.
However, the mother of five fans was confused when an American accent erupted on Instagram last week to lament a bodily embarrassment after Amy Schumer comically posted a photo of Baldwin dressed in underwear and her newborn son Eduardo Pau Lucas.
The Internet then claimed that Baldwin’s real name was actually Hillary Hayword-Thomas and that he grew up in Massachusetts. Former classmates introduced themselves as she tweeted, “I went to high school with her. I remember a genuinely charming person, but a totally white Cambridge girl. ”
Another said, “I went to high school with her. She was perfectly friendly and serious with ballroom dancing. Her name was Hillary Hayward-Thomas and she did not have her current accent.
“I think she and her brother Jeremy (also nice) grew up in Boston and were white people.”
Although Baldwin is listed as a student at Cambridge School of Weston School in Weston, Massachusetts, in April, he told “Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriages” that he moved to New York from Spain when he was 19 years to attend New York University: “I came to school and never, ever, I left”
Asked if she “wanted to return to Mallorca”, she replied: “All the time”.
Baldwin’s parents, Dr. Kathryn Hayword and David Thomas, live in Mallorca after leaving the United States in 2011.
The yoga teacher responded on Sunday about her Spanish heritage through an Instagram video, in which she said: “There are things that need to be clarified” and: “There have been 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 there now, I am here “.
He said he grew up speaking both English and Spanish and is trying to raise his bilingual children.
Answering questions about her accent, she said in the video, “I’m this person, if I’ve been speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix it up or if I speak a lot of English I mix it up, it’s one of those things that I’ve always been a little insecure “.
She said she tries to “enunciate” to work, but added that if she gets “nervous or upset” she starts mixing the two languages. “It’s not what I’m playing at … I want it to be very, very clear,” he said.
Discussing her name, she said: “When I was older, I would use Hillary’s name in this country, and in Spain I would use Hilaria and my family, my parents, call me Hilaria. She said it “always bothered her” that neither name sounded good in both languages.
A few years before she met her famous husband, she said she “consolidated” things, as she became confused and used Hilaria’s name because that’s what her family calls her.
“One of the things I love about what my parents used to say to me is happy in both languages, we can all be clear that it’s the same name, that it’s a few different letters, that we shouldn’t be so upset, “He said, and added, ‘Whatever you want to call me I’ll answer you both.’
He added: “Ultimately, this boils 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 who I feel very lucky to have. growing 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 white people. Ethnically I’m a mix of many, many things. ”She also called herself“ a different kind of Bostonian … you can’t change your training and I wouldn’t want to … that’s who I am, and that’s my story of life … it’s my weird mix of 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 spelling his name differently.
He clarified that his mother is not Spanish, as other reports have said.
“I care because what I do is be authentic, and then, if people say I’m not authentic, my feelings hurt … I don’t really understand why it’s becoming such a big thing.
“They attack me for being who I am … people who want to label me Spanish or American, can’t they be both? It’s frustrating that this is my story.”