Posted on 12/28/2020 8:45:13 AM PST by lowbridge
Hilaria Baldwin and her husband, Alec Baldwin, defended her identity on social media after it was revealed she was born in Boston, Mass., not Spain, as she had previously claimed.
The 36-year-old yoga/wellness expert reacted to a tweet over the weekend, which said, "You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person." The tweet has since been deleted.
Hilaria Baldwin has claimed she was born in Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Boston. She explained on a podcast in April 2020, "I moved here [to America] when I was 19 to go to NYU from… my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca." The bilingual mother of five's accent has also noticeably fluctuated over the years when she made appearances on TV.
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Alec Baldwin also stood up for his wife online after she was accused of cultural appropriation.
"Just a lot of s--t," the 62-year-old "30 Rock" star said on Instagram. "You have to kind of hack your way through the debris of Twitter. Twitter is just a vast orchard of crap. And I have certainly slung some crap in that orchard myself every now and then with things I’ve said. So, that’s not lost on me that I’m guilty of that as well."
Her stepdaughter, Ireland Baldwin, also defended her and slammed her detractors as "sad and pathetic."
"She’s a caring person who has always respected my relationship with my dad and I have a great relationship with her. … Hilaria is a wonderful mother who takes great care of her kids and she takes great care of my dad and that’s really all that matters to me," Ireland Baldwin said.
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A friend of mine used to play tennis doubles with (and against) Alec Baldwin when Baldwin and ex-wife Kim Bassinger visited Kim’s father here. My friend said Baldwin was the biggest a-hole he had ever met, and Baldwin would routinely throw tantrums on the court during matches.
That’s not cultural appropriation. That is pathetic lying and fraud.
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