On the latest episode of her family’s reality television show The Baldwins, Hilaria Baldwin once again played the victim. This time, instead of whining about the fallout from the Rust shooting, the wife of Alec Baldwin whined that “the whole world was mean” to her after her infamous 2020 controversy in which her Spanish origins were questioned by the public.
Hilaria’s Controversy
In December of 2020, Hilaria was accused of fabricating her Spanish roots. Indeed, she often spoke with a faint Spanish accent despite the fact that she was born and raised in a wealthy area of Boston, Massachusetts. It was also discovered that her real name is Hilary, not Hilaria.
“I went to high school with her. Genuinely lovely person, I recall, but fully a white girl from Cambridge,” a former classmate of Hilaria’s told The New York Post at the time.
Horrendously embarrassing, and utterly confusing.
‘The Whole World Was Mean To Me’
Hilaria addressed the backlash that she received on Sunday’s episode of The Baldwins.
“Growing up in a way where you have multiple cultural influences on you means that you’re never going to be able to fit in. You can try,” she said on her TLC reality show. “You can chameleon, you know, people who code-switch we’re very good at chameleoning… and you don’t even think you’re not even thinking about it. It’s just normal. It’s just natural.”
While talking to the 15-year-old sister of her daughter Carmen’s friend, Hilaria brought up the idea of “code-switching.” This is a term for “adopting one’s accent or mannerisms to fit social norms,” according to People Magazine.
“They say that it’s like communication, if you ever talk to a really old person who cannot hear, and I’m gonna emphasize, I’m gonna speak slower,” Hilaria explained. “And you’re not even really thinking about it. You just start to do it.”
“You know what it’s called? Code-switching,” she continued. “I had to learn about it because the whole world was mean to me, and so I had to learn it. It’s code-switching.”
Hilaria later doubled down on this in a confessional.
“Being in, the spotlight, as people like to call it. People say, ‘Oh, don’t you get used to it?’ No, you don’t get used to it,” she said. “You never get used to people being mean. But you take a deep breath, and I think you learn to distance yourself from it, and so, you know, you just try turning down the volume in my head a bit… and I’m not gonna take it personally.”
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Hilaria Defends Her Accent
Last month, on the premiere of The Baldwins, Hilaria defended her ever-changing accent.
“I love English, I also love Spanish,” she gushed. “And when I mix the two, that doesn’t make me inauthentic, it makes me normal.”
“I’d be lying if I said it didn’t make me sad and hurt and put me in dark places … but my family, my friends, my community are the [people] who speak multiple languages, who have belonging in multiple places, and realize that we are a mix … that’s gonna have an impact in how we sound,” Hilaria concluded. “That’s normal. That’s called being human.”
Hilaria, a former yoga instructor, has been married to Alec since 2012. Their reality show follows them and their seven children: Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo and Marilu, 4, and Ilaria, 2.
The Baldwins airs on Sunday nights at 10 p.m. ET on TLC. Be sure to check it out if you want to see more of this strange family.
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