Photo via @hilariabaldwin/Instagram, @lenibriscoe/Twitter
December 28, 2020, 2:09 pm
Alec Baldwin’s wife Hilaria has long talked about her Spanish roots, but over the holidays her name was trending on Twitter after a Twitter thread accusing her of lying about her heritage went viral. The Twitter user, @lenibriscoe, joked about Hilaria’s “commitment” to an alleged “decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.”
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This was followed up by a series of videos that looks to demonstrate that the author and podcaster has been faking her Spanish accent.
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In the final video, an Instagram entry in which Hilaria is promoting a product called Waxelene, she seems to have no trace of non-American accent.
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This Twitter user and others dug up a number of other intriguing tidbits that seemed to suggest Hilaria Baldwin has invented her own background, including a negative podcast review from someone who claimed to know her in school.
“I know Hilary Hayward-Thomas from the Cambridge School of Weston in MA,” the review reads. “She didn’t have an accent then and didn’t change her name to Hilaria. Because she’s not Spanish!”
People also located information on Hilaria’s parents, including a video of her mother talking about growing up in Massachusetts and an obituary of her father tracing his roots back to U.S. colonial times. This all seems to contradict Hilaria’s claims that she was raised at least in part in a Spanish household.
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In response, Hilaria has claimed that though she was born in Boston, she moved back and forth between the U.S. city and Spain, where she says her parents and a sibling lived.
“I’ve seen chatter online questioning my identity and culture,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram video. “This is something I take very seriously, and for those who are asking — I’ll reiterate 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 U.S.A.”
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However, as many have pointed out already, Hilaria had previously claimed to have been born in Spain, including on her Creative Artists Agency profile, though that bit of information is now noticeably absent. Her father’s obituary also noted that the family often traveled to Argentina rather than Spain, which could explain Hilaria’s proficiency with the Spanish language.
Though Hilaria has admitted to being white, she has been widely accused of cultural appropriation and compared to Rachel Dolezal, who gained rapid infamy when it was revealed that she did not have the Black roots she claimed.
Whatever the truth may be, Hilaria possibly pretending to forget the English word “cucumber” on camera is becoming something of a meme.
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*First Published: December 28, 2020, 2:09 pm
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