Hilaria Baldwin, wife of popular Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin, has finally replied to asserts she misguided the public about her Spanish heritage.
Ms Baldwin, a popular yoga instructor and podcaster, has been cited on social media of faking her Spanish accent.
In a seven-minute video posted on her Instagram, Ms Baldwin has now stated” she was born in Boston, US, but was partly raised in Spain even though her management’s biography of her states that she was born on the Spanish island of Mallorca”.
In a previous interview, she also allegedshe did not move to the United States until she was 19 to attend university in New York.
“I’ve seen chatter online questioning my identity and culture,” Ms Baldwin wrote.
“This is something I take very seriously, and for those who are asking – I’ll restate my story, as I’ve done many times before.
“I was born in Boston and grew up spending time with my family between Massachusetts and Spain. My parents and sibling live in Spain and I chose to live here, in the USA. We celebrate both cultures in our home – Alec and I are raising our children bilingual, just as I was raised.”
Ms Baldwin explained that “her accent can change because she regularly switches between Spanish and English, adding that she mixes the two when she gets “nervous or upset”.
She said in the video that “she had grown up using the name Hillary in the US and Hilaria in Spain, before later “consolidating” under Hilaria”.
Fitness entrepreneur Hilaria Baldwin, the wife of actor Alec Baldwin, posted a lengthy video on Instagram over the weekend after claims that she was faking her Spanish accent went viral on Twitter.
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Claims about her heritage went viral on social media after a video of Ms Baldwin asking how to say cucumber in English trended.
People claiming to be former classmates of Ms Baldwin in Boston then disputed her Spanish accent. “I went to [high school] with Hillary Hayward Thomas in Boston and she had no accent, was archetypal northeastern prep schooler,” wrote David Golan on Twitter.
Alec, her husband posted a video, appearing to defend her but not by name. “We live in a world now where we’re hidden behind the anonymity of social media,” BaldwinMr said.
“People feel that they can say anything. They can say anything. They probably would like to do anything if they weren’t at risk of getting caught and going to prison.”
Ireland Baldwin has also leapt to her stepmother’s defence”.
“It’s so pathetic that anyone would want to play detective, and dig that deep into someone’s life that they don’t know, don’t know anything about, how they were raised, who they were actually raised by,” she said on Instagram.
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