{"id":9898,"date":"2020-12-31T20:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T09:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=183705"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T11:12:57","slug":"hilaria-baldwin-spanish-accent-explained","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/hilaria-baldwin-spanish-accent-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"This Hilaria Baldwin Story Just Keeps Getting Messier"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The last drama of the wild year that was 2020 might just be the most outrageous yet. It all started on Sunday, when comedian Amy Schumer made a joke on Instagram, posting a postpartum photo of Hilaria Baldwin, wife of actor Alec Baldwin, holding her three-month-old baby while wearing lingerie. Schumer was making light of the fact that Baldwin looks like a <\/span>Sports Illustrated <\/span><\/i>model mere months after giving birth to her fifth child. But Baldwin didn\u2019t see the humor in it. In fact, not long after, she took to Instagram to share an Instagram Live in response, calling for \u201cbody inclusivity\u201d and saying that the movement also needs to include women who look like her. But in the heat of the moment, Baldwin forgot to speak in the Spanish accent she\u2019d been allegedly putting on for close to a decade, kicking off a frenzy which has resulted in people finding out the yoga instructor is, in fact, not from Spain, as she\u2019s claimed multiple times in the past, but she was born in Boston, USA. Oh, and her name isn\u2019t Hilaria, it\u2019s Hillary.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to admire Hilaria Baldwin\u2019s commitment to her decade-long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,\u201d Twitter user @lenibriscoe commented on Monday, beginning a long thread which has since gone viral and resulted in stories such as <\/span>The Daily Mail<\/span><\/i>\u2019s deep-dive into the Baldwin wedding, titled: \u201cInside Hilaria and Alec Baldwin’s <\/span>NYC wedding where they said ‘S\u00ed,’ waved flamenco fans and exchanged Cartier rings inscribed in Spanish – before she told Vanity Fair that her family ‘couldn’t pronounce her new surname.’\u201d There\u2019s also the clip where Baldwin says she can\u2019t remember the English name for a \u2018cucumber.\u2019 Just when you thought you\u2019d seen it all\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

As <\/span>Page Six<\/span><\/i><\/a> notes, <\/span>Baldwin\u2019s bio<\/span><\/a> on her agency\u2019s speaker site states: \u201cBaldwin was born in Mallorca, Spain and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.\u201d In a 2018 profile, <\/span>Hola! magazine<\/span><\/a> describes her as \u201cborn in Spain,\u201d speaking Spanish as her native language and, just this year, in an April interview on the <\/span>MomTruths<\/span><\/i> podcast, Baldwin said that she \u201cmoved here when [she] was 19 to go to NYU.\u201d Asked where she\u2019d moved from, Baldwin answered: \u201cFrom \u2014 my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to the drama, the Baldwins have come out swinging. Alec, for his part, uploaded a rather creepy video of himself repeating the words \u201cconsider the source\u201d while refusing to mention his wife\u2019s name or the country of Spain (people in the comments quickly pointed out that Hilaria, for the most part, is the source), while Hilaria herself provided a long list of defenses<\/a>, such as her parents owning a holiday home in Spain and flying the children there for their entire childhood, before later relocating to Spain (Hilaria continued living in the USA but would visit her family for month-long stints).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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