Hilaria Baldwin pretended to be Spanish wtf?!

[Ballstothis148]

This is the least important and most weird story of 2020.... this woman comes up on my Instagram a lot as a suggested page. Tbh I don’t find her interesting but know she’s Spanish and is into health, having babies with Alec Baldwin and that’s pretty much it. She speaks with a Spanish accent, on her IG page she calls her children “Baldwinitos” I do remember an article saying when she speaks Spanish to her kids people confuse her for a nanny so I thought an interesting take on a European mum in the States.

Except it’s all a lie. She’s not remotely Spanish. Her wealthy Boston parents (no Spanish ancestry) now have a holiday home there.

What is wrong with people?! I include me for being too interested :) why pretend to be Spanish? In one interview she even pretended she didn’t know the word for cucumber as her English isn’t that good

Oh and she’s not even called Hilaria, she’s called Hilary. This year I swear... what an odd story!! I did know a girl who went very French after a romance there one year... maybe it’s a thing!

@BillLius

My mother thinks she’s Italian. She isn’t. She’s from Liverpool and has only been to Italy on holiday. But now she will only wear Italian clothes, she will only eat Italian food (from and Italian cookbook ostentatiously left open) and speaks Italian to us. I haven’t the faintest idea what she’s in about. I’ve only been to Italy on a school skiing trip and that was many years ago. We don’t even have any Italian connections or ancestry.

Pretentious, much?

Sorry, this made me LOL! Poor you xx

Apropos of nothing - Her step daughter's name is Ireland.

@MellowYellow101

You need to read the article again

She was born in Boston and spent time in both Spain and America. Most of her family live in Spain. Her ancestry is Spanish

So to me, that means she is spanish by blood and American by nationality although I assume she is a dual national.

Really not rocket science and in the grand scheme of things, who really gives a flying hoot what she says she is or isn't.

Talk about rocket science😂😂

You might want to read up on some facts before trying to make others look stupid 🙄

Your American family retiring to Spain when you are almost 30 yrs old doesn’t give you Spanish Ancestry 😂

What if Rachel Dolezal said she was transblack? She clearly identifies as black.

So people who are arguing the fact that Rachel is not genetically black must be committing hate speech surely? If saying that a transwoman who has penis and XY chromosomes is a man is hate speech then saying that Rachel isn't black must also be hate speech?

Yet she could say she was a man and we'd all have to "respect" that.

@Sheleg

Yet she could say she was a man and we'd all have to "respect" that.

Maybe that will be her next move? ‘Dad of six’ ‘Dad of the Year’ etc

I think they've tried to justify it scientifically with there being male and female brains (there aren't). Or you get washed with too many female or male hormones in the womb or something (uh huh).

That was to nanasplit, sorry.

I don't see why you couldn't have a "Spanish brain" born in a US body. Bloody evolution going haywire.

so what does her husband say about it whats the point of it all

Didn't Rachel Dolezal's case happen before the whole trans issue blew up completely? I don't know, I wasn't following but already heard about Rachel Dolezal looong before I started hearing about the TWAW debate.

@TatianaBis

I guess she felt like she needed to make herself more exotic to appeal to a ‘celebrity’ although it’s a long time since Alec Baldwin has been in anything.

I don't know about that, 30 Rock is fairly recent (and hilarious)

Anyone watched Bridgertons on Netflix? Hilary reminds me of the French Modiste speaking with a thick French accent, till her friend the singer walks in and she starts saying 'bloody hell si, scared me outa m wits '

I grew up in a small village in Sussex and when I was 14 I went on a trip to America. Loved it. When I came back I had affected a few americanisms, like pronouncing ice cream as ice cream instead of ice cream.
Anyway, obviously my family mercilessly teased me and it faded away in a few weeks but maybe she was just really committed to the bit she was doing and it’s escalated and then she couldn’t go back
But why, at no point did her parents/siblings not say “Hillary, why are you speaking with that ridiculous accent?”

Surely if you grew up in Mallorca you'd be speaking Catalan not Spanish?

30 Rock ended in 2013.

@Summerdayshaze

If she’s always felt like she’s Spanish, then who are we to say she isn’t? What harm is she doing?

Nationality isn't something you 'feel'. I might 'feel' like I'm a gorgeous mutltimillionare rocket scientist but, well, I'm not.

There are holidays and holidays though, aren't there?

There's a difference between going somewhere for a fortnight and staying in a hotel, and packing up and going somewhere else from the day school breaks up to the day before term begins, and living there in a 'second home' type way.

@Ozgirl75

I grew up in a small village in Sussex and when I was 14 I went on a trip to America. Loved it. When I came back I had affected a few americanisms, like pronouncing ice cream as ice cream instead of ice cream. Anyway, obviously my family mercilessly teased me and it faded away in a few weeks but maybe she was just really committed to the bit she was doing and it’s escalated and then she couldn’t go back But why, at no point did her parents/siblings not say “Hillary, why are you speaking with that ridiculous accent?”

It's like that but as well as a few Americanisns, you just had an American accent half the time, and changed your name to Madison, and called your kids Brett and Taylor, and joked about getting stick from English people for being American.

@MichelleScarn

Just because her birth certificate says she was assigned as born in Boston doesn't mean this is true. She was really born in Madrid as she feelz she was.

Could be we’ve all been getting it wrong about Melania too. Maybe she was born in Brooklyn and adopted a Slovenian heritage and accent to attract the eye of Mr T, who had form for marrying tall blondes with foreign accents.

And , sudden light bulb moment, if they already had it It would go a long way to explain why she and her parents got US citizenship so easily.

I identify as British, but the Home Office insists in me sending a ton of documents to prove I'm entitled to a passport I should contact them and send a copy of this thread.

There will be millions more like her. She’s trailblazing for them. In fact what it means is that she’s MORE Spanish than someone born and raised in Spain.

Anyone who can’t imagine waking up from BIRTH knowing they’re supposed to be Spanish but assigned American needs to educate themselves. And what’s more it can be medically proven.

I wonder if it is partly because Boston accents are so strong (and distinctive). I think they get a little bit of fun poked at them in America, and are sort of associated with being working class. So if she was trying to change her accent to a posher one it might have wound up as a fake foreign one (like someone with a scouse accent in the UK changing to being slighty Italian). A lot of slightly pretentious people in the past have adopted a sort of odd transatlantic accent that becomes their own...

@pinfloy

Surely if you grew up in Mallorca you'd be speaking Catalan not Spanish?

Bravo 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 You would indeed. Or at least, your Spanish accent would be way different than the one she has.

Re Melania I think it's pretty obvious she was putting on an accent too to show her husband isn't a racist, a xenophobe and an overall bigot. How could he be with a Yugoslavian wife?

Only she's lived in English speaking countries for quarter of a century and previously lived in Western Europe since teenage years so such thick Eastern accent would have undoubtedly disappeared or strongly subsided years ago.

I've been to Norway on holiday, I think I'll start calling myself Eric Bloodaxe.