Posted on 12/28/2020 9:38:14 AM PST by Red Badger
Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria Baldwin is responding to accusations she faked her Spanish accent and lied about her heritage for years.
The Daily Beast reports a Twitter user named @lenibriscoe shared a long thread raising questions about Hilaria, who claimed she was born in Mallorca, Spain, and has given Spanish names to her five children with Baldwin (Carmen, Rafael Thomas, Leonardo Angel Charles, Romeo Alejandro David and Eduardo Pau Lucas). Tweets include footage of Hilaria’s accent fluctuating, including when she said she couldn’t remember the English word for “cucumber” during a “Today” show appearance, and evidence (including her yearbook and old MySpace page) that she grew up in Massachusetts and attended the Cambridge School of Weston, Mass., under the name Hillary Hayward-Thomas.
MassLive.com reports her mother, Dr. Kathryn Hayward, worked as an associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, but retired from both positions in 2012. She and her husband, David L. Thomas, Jr., also co-founded The Integrative Health Collaborative in Boston in 2007. They moved to Mallorca, Spain, in 2011, the same year a yoga instructor named “Hilaria Thomas” began dating Alec Baldwin.
The Daily Beast adds that an obituary for Hilaria’s grandfather and a wedding announcement indicate that her grandfather on her father’s side has U.S. roots that “pre-dated the American Revolution” and her grandfather’s first wife (and mother of their children) was from Nebraska.
Hilaria Baldwin, meanwhile, has a CAA speaker page and IMDb bio that both say she was born in Mallorca, Spain. She’s appeared on the cover of Hola! magazine, based out of Madrid, where she was identified as Spanish. She also told the podcast “Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriages” in April that she didn’t move to the U.S. until she was 19 to attend New York University: “I came for school and I never, ever left.”
On Sunday, she admitted that her name is Hillary and she was born in Boston.
“I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain, my family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everybody is over there in Spain now, I’m here,” she said on Instagram. “When I was growing up, in this country I would use the name Hillary, and in Spain I would use Hilaria and my family, my parents, call me Hilaria.”
Hilaria added that she grew up speaking both English and Spanish, and is trying to raise her children to be bilingual. She said she’ll “enunciate” for work as a social media influencer and TV personality, but will sometimes mix the two languages when speaking especially when nervous or upset: “It’s not something I’m playing at … I want that to be very, very clear.”
“Yes I am a white girl, my family is white,” she said. “Europe has a lot of white people in them. Ethnically I am a mix of many, many things.”
Page Six reports she also called herself a “different kind of Bostonian … you can’t change your background and nor would I want to … this is who I am, and this is my life story … it’s my weird mix of who I am.”
She said she’d take a break from social media while her husband Alec came to her defense.
“We live in a world now where we’re hidden behind the anonymity of social media. People feel that they can say anything,” the Emmy-winning actor said on Instagram. “There’s things that have been said lately about people that I love, that I care about deeply, which are ridiculous.”
Alec Baldwin also called Twitter 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.”
“But I would publicly dump Twitter tomorrow,” he added.
The obsession with national origin is neurotic. Why are people given privileges based on the country of origin of their grandparents?
If you trace us all back, and go back far enough, we all converge on the same distant relatives. So we are all related.
“Race” is just adaptation to the environment.
The further south you go the more you can see influence of the moors (who were kicked out 500 years ago but still ...) and the gypsys down there. But up north they are more related to gaulic or even celtic stock (in Galicia, at least) than mediterranean.
Yeah, same as many other Americans, Hillary, even those who are identified as "white."
I guess she had him hoodwinked! Did he know or did he stand by her fake story all these years?
Who gets to play them in an SNL skit?
That’s true of Italy where Andrea is male & Andreina is female. The Spanish male is usual Andreas or Andrés or less commonly Andreo and the female is Andrea or Andressa.
The Italian names are little weird because they defy the standard Italian -o, (male) / -a (female). This is because certain male Greek names originally entered Italy with an “s” ending, e.g., Nicolas, Andreas, Lucas. The Italians dropped the “s” but kept the “a,” hence Nicola, Andrea, Luca are male names.
You’re 100% right. I had a friend years ago whose parents were natives of Spain. His pet peeve was people who thought he was Mexican rather than European.
If whites have privilege, you wouldn’t see so many namely white women pretending NOT to be white women.
Stalinists lie. Always
How queer. Anytime a regular Joe’s photos are grabbed from Instagram they use a byline (c)Instagram or (c)Facebook. Here they gave Arec the credit and still referenced the site.
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