Hilaria Baldwin was always Spanish, but she really put her foot in her mouth when she changed her name to Hillary, says her old dancing partner.
“Everything about‘ Hilaria ’is fun for me,” Alexander Rechits, who danced competitively with celebrated yoga people doubling yoga from 2006 to 2009, told the New York Times.
Rechits, who knew actor Alec Baldwin’s 36-year-old American wife by name, Hillary Hayward-Thomas, said it was clear even then that he wanted to portray himself as something he wasn’t.
“I understand why he did it,” Rechits said in an interview posted Wednesday, adding that he considered Hilaria to be sweet and talented.
“It was always her desire to be considered Spanish,” she said.
“He had roots in Spain, his brother lived there, he visited a lot,” he said, referring to the fact that Hilaria’s parents now live in Mallorca and her family would travel to Spain when she was little.
“But Hillary is a really good name, why would you change it when you were born here and you weren’t born in Spain?” said the Belarusian.
“I have many nicknames in Russian. But I’m still Alexander everywhere I go. “
Hilaria, who has no Spanish ancestry, has been burned for allegedly misrepresenting herself as a Spaniard, repeatedly referring to Spain as her “home”, sometimes adopting a bad Spanish accent and not correcting numerous publications and even one of his officers. bios web that falsely said he was born in Mallorca.
For her wedding to Alec in 2012, she wore a traditional white Spanish mantilla veil and waved a flamenco fan to her boyfriend at an altar in St. Mary’s Cathedral. Patrick in Manhattan, while the couple traded in rings inscribed in Spanish and danced with Puerto Rican crooner Luis Miguel.
The person who influenced the lifestyle was forced to go on social media over the weekend to acknowledge that she was a “white girl” who was born in Boston, who was originally named Hillary and went to high school in Massachusetts.