“There is not something I’m doing wrong, and I think there is a difference between hiding and creating a boundary.”įor days, the internet and the news media have dogged her, sharing evidence of Baldwin speaking in a Spanish accent in this video but not that one, of fluffy magazine spreads in ¡Hola! that cite her as a native Spanish speaker, of a Today show clip showing her making gazpacho and asking Telemundo’s Evi Sisko what the English word for cucumbers is and of a biography posted on the website of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), the talent organisation, that said she was born in Mallorca, Spain.īaldwin is bilingual, and she speaks English with varying degrees of a Spanish accent depending on how happy or upset she is feeling, she said. “It’s very surreal,” said Baldwin, who said she had been called Hilaria by family members for most of her life.
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We have an opportunity to clarify for people who have been confused – and have been confused in some ways by people misrepresenting me Photograph: Krista Schlueter/The New York Times Over the last week or so, millions of people, cooped up and tired and probably too online at the end of the year, have been surprised to learn that Hilaria Baldwin (36) and the mother of five children with her husband, the actor Alec Baldwin, is not a Spaniard but an American who was born and raised in Boston and who was known, at least until 2009, as Hillary.Īlec and Hilaria Baldwin at the American Ballet Theatre spring gala in May 2019. “It’s a very strange thing and you can just be living your life,” she said, when suddenly comments begin to mount suggesting that you, a famous person who has shared so much of yourself with your hundreds of thousands of followers, are not who they thought you to be, and you find your very identity the subject of international debate and scepticism. “I started seeing comments on my Instagram, ” she said in an interview. The first signs that Hilaria Baldwin’s life was going seriously off the rails came from the same place where she usually derives her sense of control.