When Alec and Hilaria Baldwin in a recent , some commenters zeroed in on one aspect of the video in particular: Hilaria Baldwin’s accent. “Where did her Spanish accent go?!” one person commented on the video. “Her accent disappeared!!” another person wrote.
The yoga instructor and influencer, 40, spoke in an American accent in the video, rekindling a controversy that has followed Baldwin for some time now about her connection to Spain. Hilaria Baldwin publicly presented herself as having Spanish heritage for years. Alec Baldwin, during a 2013 interview with David Letterman, said his wife of one year was “Spanish.
” A 2014 profile of Hilaria Baldwin in describes her as being “half Spanish.” A 2012 , which calls her “bi-cultural,” describes her heritage as follows. “Thomas comes from mixed Yankee and Spanish stock, and has lived in both Spain and New England.
(‘I am prum -tone,’ Baldwin says, affectionately mimicking what you’d hear if you asked her where she’s from),” the article reads. For years, Baldwin often spoke English with an apparent Spanish accent during public appearances. At times, she seemed to imply that English was not her first language by using imperfect grammar and forgetting how to say certain words in English.
Then, in December 2020, a social media user who “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,” which sparked a viral response and backlash that .
