Surprising Facts About Hilaria Baldwin
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00:00Surprising Facts About Hilaria Baldwin
00:02Yoga teacher, book author, fake Spaniard,
00:05Hilaria Baldwin has had many identities throughout her life.
00:08Her name isn't actually Hilaria.
00:11Before she took on her husband's famous last name,
00:14Hilaria Baldwin was known by a completely different name.
00:18She was actually born Hilary Lynn Hayward-Thomas,
00:21which is quite a departure from the Spanish identity.
00:24She's been publicly cultivating for years.
00:26She didn't just wake up one day
00:28and decide to start going by Hilaria either.
00:30She legally changed her name in 2010,
00:33one year before meeting Alec Baldwin,
00:35making the timing especially interesting.
00:38This juicy tidbit came to light
00:40after a Reddit user with a knack for online sleuthing
00:42uncovered the official name change document
00:45from the New York County Civil Court.
00:47It wasn't long before people began speculating
00:50about why she made the switch
00:52and whether it was an early step
00:53in the elaborate Spanish persona she would later push.
00:57When confronted about it in a 2020 interview
01:00with the New York Times,
01:02she attempted to downplay the situation,
01:04claiming that she had been called Hilaria by family members
01:08long before making the legal change.
01:10She's not as Spanish as she'd like everyone to believe.
01:14For years, Hilaria Baldwin has spoken with a Spanish accent,
01:18woven Spanish words into interviews,
01:21and emphasized her connection to Spanish culture.
01:23In a 2018 interview with HOLA,
01:26which mysteriously disappeared from the site,
01:28she even stated that she was born in Spain
01:31and had made sure to raise her children
01:33speaking her native language, Spanish.
01:36Her official talent agency bio echoed this,
01:39once stating,
01:40Baldwin was born in Mallorca, Spain,
01:43and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.
01:46There's been some questions about where I'm born.
01:50I'm born in Boston.
01:51But her biography on her agency's website states,
01:54Baldwin was born in Mallorca, Spain.
01:57But when people started digging,
01:59they found that her parents didn't move to Spain until 2011,
02:03meaning Hilaria, or rather Hillary,
02:06spent her entire childhood in the US.
02:08Not exactly the life of a Spanish native.
02:11A genealogist even went as far as building out
02:14a quick family tree for her,
02:16revealing that her ancestry includes English,
02:18Irish, French-Canadian, German, and Slovak roots,
02:23but no Spanish heritage whatsoever.
02:26When confronted, she scrambled for an explanation,
02:29claiming she had never outright said she was Spanish,
02:33only that she spent time in Spain.
02:36But if that's true,
02:37why did she let multiple media outlets and official bios
02:40claim otherwise for years?
02:43Her Spanish accent comes and goes.
02:46The Spanish identity scandal reached another level
02:49when people started noticing that Hilaria Baldwin's accent
02:52mysteriously appears and disappears
02:55depending on the situation.
02:57Take, for example, her 2023 Instagram video
03:00with Alec Baldwin,
03:02where they announced their new reality show.
03:10Viewers immediately noticed that she was speaking
03:12in completely accent-free English.
03:15Which raised eyebrows because in past interviews,
03:18she had used a thick Spanish accent.
03:21People dug up past clips,
03:23and what they found made the situation even more bizarre.
03:27In a 2012 appearance on Good Morning America,
03:30she spoke with a slight Spanish accent
03:32while demonstrating yoga poses.
03:34But then, in an interview with Extra that same year,
03:38her accent had completely vanished.
03:40The inconsistencies didn't stop there.
03:43Following Alec Baldwin's 2021 criminal charges
03:47for the incident on the Rust set,
03:49Hilaria was interviewed outside their home.
03:51And her Spanish accent was stronger than ever.
03:55Some speculated that she leans into the accent more
03:58when she wants to emphasize her Spanish persona.
04:01When asked about this strange inconsistency,
04:04she gave an explanation on the debut episode
04:06of The Baldwins.
04:08She claimed that she was raised bilingual
04:10and that mixing accents was completely normal.
04:13She pretended she couldn't remember
04:15the English word for cucumber.
04:17We have, um, how do you say it in English?
04:20Cucumber?
04:20Cucumbers.
04:21In 2020, Hilaria appeared on Today for a cooking segment,
04:25where she suddenly forgot the English word for cucumber.
04:29While demonstrating how to make gazpacho,
04:31she dramatically paused and asked,
04:34how do you say in English?
04:35Cucumber?
04:37Yes, really.
04:39The internet immediately flooded with reactions,
04:42with people pointing out how suspiciously convenient it was
04:45that a native English speaker forgot the word
04:48for one of the most basic vegetables.
04:51But the cucumber debacle wasn't a one-time thing.
04:54In another resurfaced clip,
04:56she was cooking a Spanish dish
04:58and suddenly couldn't remember the English word for onion,
05:01saying the Spanish word cebolla instead.
05:05The time she made Alec Baldwin beg for Instagram followers.
05:09In early 2023, Alec Baldwin posted
05:12one of the most awkward videos of his career,
05:15and that's saying something.
05:17He wasn't promoting a new film
05:19or discussing a serious topic.
05:21Instead, he was begging his followers
05:23to help Hilaria hit one million Instagram followers.
05:26My wife is just centimeters shy.
05:30A million followers on Instagram.
05:32Would you follow her on Instagram?
05:34In the video, Alec looks completely serious as he asks,
05:37would you follow my wife on Instagram as a birthday gift?
05:41Please.
05:42It was cringe at a level rarely seen before.
05:45Not only did he make multiple pleas for people to follow her,
05:48but he did it with the urgency of someone
05:50asking for charity donations,
05:52as if Hilaria reaching one million followers
05:55was some kind of noble cause.
05:57The most embarrassing part?
05:58It didn't even work.
06:00She posed in the fetal position for a social media pic.
06:03What Hilaria did after Alec Baldwin's charges were dropped
06:07in connection to the Rust case was so strange.
06:11You'd think a moment like that
06:12would call for a statement of relief,
06:14or maybe a simple family photo.
06:17But Hilaria, she went a completely different route.
06:21She shared an ultra bizarre photo of herself
06:24curled up in the fetal position on Alec Baldwin's lap.
06:28That's right.
06:28While her husband had just narrowly avoided
06:31serious legal trouble,
06:33she chose to depict herself as a literal baby
06:36cradled in his arms like a child.
06:38Critics immediately pounced on the odd photo choice,
06:42with one writer from Jezebel summing up
06:44the collective confusion.
06:46The curled up pose begs to suggest that she is baby,
06:50despite Alec being the one who was facing charges
06:53and their babies being the actual babies.
06:56Her yoga classes can be dangerous.
06:59Believe it or not, Hilaria Baldwin's yoga classes
07:01once nearly ended in disaster,
07:04and not just for her reputation.
07:06Before becoming Mrs. Baldwin,
07:08she taught yoga at Yoga Vida in NYC,
07:11where her classes were known for being insanely crowded.
07:15And in 2013, that overcrowding led to a serious injury.
07:19A student, Spencer Wolfe,
07:21was attempting a handstand when things went terribly wrong.
07:25He lost his balance,
07:26fell straight into a sixth floor window,
07:29shattered the glass,
07:30and sliced open his leg in the process.
07:33He later sued the studio,
07:35arguing that the class was too packed,
07:37making dangerous situations inevitable.
07:40Now you'd think Hilaria would show some sympathy
07:42for a student who literally fell through a window,
07:45but nope.
07:47She apparently felt like she was the real victim.
07:50According to Wolfe's friend, Zev Star Tambor,
07:52Hilaria ran into Wolfe sometime after the lawsuit
07:55and unleashed a rant about how he traumatized her.
07:59Star Tambor recalled the absurd exchange.
08:02Hilaria recognized him
08:03and proceeded to rant about how he traumatized her.
08:06Spencer said,
08:08but I was the one who was hurt.
08:10I'm the one with the leg that still hurts.
08:13And she went on,
08:14but yes, you traumatized me.
08:17The experience was so terrible.
08:20She posted a photo of her and Alec Baldwin arguing.
08:24Most married couples try to keep their arguments private.
08:27Not Hilaria Baldwin.
08:29In 2020, she dug up an old photo of herself
08:33angrily confronting Alec Baldwin at a red carpet event
08:36and proudly posted it on Instagram
08:39for all the world to see.
08:41What was the purpose of this public airing
08:44of Baldwin marital drama?
08:46Well, according to Hilaria,
08:48the photo documented their very first argument.
08:50And apparently she thought that was worth celebrating.
08:54In the caption, she described the scene.
08:56You got frustrated with someone on the red carpet
08:58and walked away.
09:00I had to waddle in this mermaid tail dress after you
09:03and didn't like being left behind.
09:04A Reddit group thinks she faked her pregnancies.
09:08A dedicated Reddit group with over 25,000 members
09:11has been obsessing over whether Hilaria
09:13actually carried all of her children herself.
09:16The theory gained traction after she and Alec
09:18welcomed seven children in rapid succession,
09:22including a daughter via surrogacy.
09:24Some users on r slash Hilaria Baldwin
09:28have even speculated that she wore a moon bump,
09:30a prosthetic belly used to fake a pregnancy.
09:33Others believe that she used surrogates more than once,
09:36but didn't admit it.
09:38She bought four cats despite Alec Baldwin's severe allergy.
09:42If there's one thing most people try to avoid
09:44in a relationship,
09:45it's actively endangering their spouse's health.
09:47But apparently that memo didn't reach Hilaria Baldwin.
09:51On an episode of the Baldwins,
09:52Alec Baldwin shared a bizarre revelation.
09:55He's super allergic to cats.
09:58How allergic?
09:59Well, when he was younger,
10:00just staying in a house with cats
10:02triggered a severe asthma attack
10:04that landed him in the hospital.
10:06He made it very clear to Hilaria
10:08that they could never have cats in their home.
10:11And what did she do?
10:13She went out and bought four of them.
10:16Four.
10:17What do you guys think of Hilaria Baldwin?
10:20Let me know in the comments
10:21and I hope you have a great day.