Hilaria Baldwin Claims She Never Said She Was from Spain
by EG
Hilaria Baldwin, wife of former 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin, is still embroiled in a gossipy controversy about her nationality. After years of apparently covering up her posh Boston upbringing and suggesting that she was born and raised in Spain, she now says that she was speaking figuratively about her European upbringing. It was the fault of everyone else for taking her literally, she says. Read on for details.
Via Page Six.
Hillary “Hilaria” Baldwin has opened up about being accused of faking her background — insisting it was everyone else’s fault for assuming she was Spanish.
Alec Baldwin’s wife told The New York Times in an interview posted early Wednesday that she had always hidden her parents’ true background as bourgeois Bostonians purely in an innocent attempt to protect their privacy.
And she claimed she was raised by a father with such “deep, deep, deep bonds” with the European nation that, “When we weren’t in Spain, we called it ‘we brought Spain into our home.’”
The world then misrepresented her innocent pronouncement about “going home” to Spain, because they did not realize that “home is where my parents are going to be,” Baldwin claimed to the outlet.
“If my parents move to China, I am going to go to China and say, ‘I’m going home,’” claimed Baldwin, who was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas.
People were also far too literal about her statements about family roots in Spain, she claimed, saying she was merely speaking colloquially about family friends there.
“These people who I call my family, I am learning in this particular situation, I have to say, ‘People who we have considered to be our family,'” she claimed.
The problem was compounded by her reps at Creative Artists Agency using unverified information from the internet to write a sloppy bio about her, which she was unaware about until the scandal blew up, she claimed.
“It was very disappointing,” she griped.
Similar mistakes led to magazines like ¡Hola! and Latina repeatedly calling her a Spaniard, including on cover stories.
Yet despite twice posing for the cover of ¡Hola! — which has written some 20 items about her on its English-language website so far this year — she simply never realized the error because she never reads about herself, the Instagram-loving, selfie-obsessed former yoga teacher claimed.
Even the most viral video of her — seemingly forgetting the English word “cucumber” while speaking with a heavy Spanish accent on the “Today” show — can innocently be explained as a “brain fart” as she nervously made one of her first major TV appearances, she said.
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