Hilaria Baldwin confirms she’s a white woman in passionate Instagram post

If you stayed off social media for the past few days to enjoy a well-earned Christmas break, then you definitely missed the tea and dessert that was the internet doing a deep dive on one Hilaria Baldwin. Who, by the way, is not Spanish as she may have previously led people to believe.

“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,” Hilaria said in a passionate video defending her heritage after many questioned it online. The model also addressed those who have questioned her changing accent, revealing that she spoke both Spanish and English growing up. “I am that person, if I’ve been speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix them or if I’m speaking a lot of English, I mix that, it’s one of those things I’ve always been a bit insecure about,” she revealed, adding that 2021 may be the year for her to get over that.

The mother of five also addressed allegations that she changed her name from Hillary to Hilaria after using the former name in high school. “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,” she confirmed, adding that after she and husband Alec Baldwin got together she decided to officially go by Hilaria.

“Yes I am a white girl, my family is white… Europe has a lot of white people in [it]. Ethnically I am a mix of many, many things,” she added. “I care because my thing is about being authentic and then if people say I’m not being authentic, it hurts my feelings… I don’t really understand why it’s turning into such a big thing… I’m getting attacked for being who I am… people wanting to label me Spanish or America, can’t it be both? It’s frustrating that is my story.”

Alec Baldwin wasn’t about to leave the mother of his children out there alone, and so he also shared a long video on Instagram blasting those who pass judgement on social media. “We live in a world now where we’re hidden behind the anonymity of social media,” he 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. Because they can’t do that, because that involves real commitment to do something, to express those feelings, they say things, no profile picture very often, sometimes yes, no identifying features there, hidden behind the anonymity of social media, they want to just shoot it all over you and spray it all over you, their venom and their hate… And you have to consider the source. There’s things that have been said lately about people that I love, that I care about deeply, which are ridiculous. I mean, just ridiculous.”

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For those who need a refresher, this all started back before the break when Amy Schumer mocked Hilaria’s sexy Instagram post promoting an ointment cream. The comedian recreated her own hilarious, dishevelled version of shot, which prompted an onslaught of mean comments. Schumer deleted the post and Hilaria took to Instagram to defend herself in a video, saying she appreciated the joke (funny), but not the body shaming (unfunny). Sounds fair, right? But there was a rub. Some users noticed that Baldwin didn’t have a Spanish accent in the video, and so they did some investigating.

“You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,” wrote a user named @lenibriscoe, who has since made her profile private. She pointed out that although Hilaria was born in Boston, she once told Hola! Magazine she was born in Spain and “has made sure to raise her children with her native language, Spanish.” (Her agency’s website also claimed that Hilaria was born in Mallorca and raised in Boston.) The user also called out Baldwin’s penchant for switching up her accent over the years, and she also pointed to a cooking segment on the Today show where the personality apparently forgot the English word for “cucumber.”

After the string of tweets went viral some of the model’s high school classmates stepped in to reveal that Hilaria did not move to New York from Spain when she was 19 years old as she suggested in a podcast earlier this year. In fact when they went to high school with her in Boston she went by the name Hillary Hayword-Thomas. Later, a self-proclaimed genealogist on Twitter said that a “quick and dirty tree” for Baldwin revealed “English, Irish, French-Canadian, German and Slovak” lineage on her mother’s side.

And then Schumer, a.k.a. Hilaria’s new Instagram bestie, weighed in on it all by posting a photo of herself in a sundress with shades and an oversized sun hat with a coffee in-hand. “I get it. I went to Spain a couple times and loved it too,” she wrote in another since-deleted post.  

Schumer wasn’t the only one who found the narrative ridiculous.

And just when you thought 2020 couldn’t get any stranger, too. Your move internet. Your move.

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