{"id":206510,"date":"2025-02-20T22:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T22:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peoplebugs.com\/life-style\/hilaria-baldwin-addresses-fake-spanish-accent-criticisms-in-familys-new-show\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:15:44","slug":"hilaria-baldwin-addresses-fake-spanish-accent-criticisms-in-familys-new-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peoplebugs.com\/life-style\/hilaria-baldwin-addresses-fake-spanish-accent-criticisms-in-familys-new-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilaria Baldwin addresses \u2018fake\u2019 Spanish accent criticisms in family\u2019s new show"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hilaria Baldwin<\/a> has hit back at the criticism she\u2019s faced for her Spanish accent<\/a>. <\/p>\n The 41-year-old yoga instructor spoke candidly about her heritage during the season premiere of her and her husband Alec Baldwin\u2019s new show<\/a>, The Baldwins<\/em>, which airs on TLC on February 23. <\/p>\n Back in 2020, Hilaria was accused of faking<\/a> her Spanish heritage, prompting her to later confirm that while she was born in Boston \u2014 under the name Hillary Haward-Thomas \u2014 she spent a lot of her childhood in Spain, where her family still lives.<\/p>\n However, she\u2019s now made it clear that she won\u2019t let the controversy about her heritage get to her. <\/p>\n \u201cI love English, I also love Spanish, and when I mix the two it doesn’t make me inauthentic, and when I mix the two, that makes me normal,\u201d she said during a confessional interview in the season premiere of The Baldwins<\/em>. \u201cI’d be lying if I said [the controversy] didn’t make me sad and it didn’t hurt and it didn’t put me in dark places.\u201d <\/p>\n She emphasized that she\u2019s learned to embrace her different heritages with the help of her friends and family. <\/p>\n \u201cMy community who speak multiple languages, who have belonged in multiple places and realize that we are a mix of all these different things and that\u2019s going to have an impact on how we sound and an impact on how we articulate things and the words that we choose and our mannerisms,\u201d she added. \u201cThat\u2019s normal. That\u2019s called being human.\u201d <\/p>\n She also opened up about teaching Spanish to her and Alec\u2019s seven children: Carmen, 11, Rafael, nine, Leonardo, eight, Romeo, six, Eduardo, four, Mar\u00eda, three, and Ilaria, two.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m raising my kids to be bilingual, I was raised bilingual,\u201d she said. \u201cMy family \u2014 all my nuclear family \u2014 now lives over in Spain. I want to teach my kids pride in speaking more than one language. I think just growing up and speaking two languages is extremely special.\u201d<\/p>\n In December 2020, there was a viral investigation into Hilaria\u2019s ethnicity after an X user accused the entrepreneur of impersonating \u201ca Spanish person<\/a>.\u201d Many people shared videos<\/a> of Hilaria not knowing the English word for cucumber, while others pointed out that she claimed she was born in Spain in several interviews.<\/p>\n After she clarified to The New York Times<\/em><\/a> that she was born in Boston, she addressed the controversy again, reiterating that she was raised with two cultures, American and Spanish. <\/p>\n \u201cI feel a true sense of belonging to both,\u201d she wrote on Instagram<\/a> in February 2021. \u201cThe way I\u2019ve spoken about myself and my deep connection to two cultures could have been better explained \u2013 I should have been more clear and I’m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n Since then, she\u2019s continued to face mockery over her Spanish accent. In January, fans lambasted her for appearing to forget the English word for onion while cooking and instead said the Spanish word, \u201ccebollas.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cFor context, her English is her first and native language. She has been pretending to be Spanish for years now. Gotta love the dedication to the bit,\u201d one person responded to the recent cooking video on X.<\/p>\n \u201cNo cause I understand forgetting certain words if you speak multiple languages, even if English is your first language cause that happens to me too. But the accent? I can\u2019t wrap my head around it. How do you sound like that when you\u2019re from Boston?\u201d another wrote.<\/p>\n Others defended Hilaria with one person arguing: \u201cAnyone who speaks more than one language knows very well it\u2019s extremely common to forget regular words in your own language, I\u2019m not sure what we\u2019re supposed to be laughing at here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>