Hilaria Baldwin’s fake Spanish past is revealed

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Hilaria Baldwin was born in Boston and attended an exclusive Massachusetts high school despite claiming to have come to America when she was 19 and presenting herself as a Spanish person. 

The 36-year-old wife of Alec Baldwin confessed to her 859,000 Instagram followers on Sunday that her real name is Hillary, that she is ‘a white girl’ and that she spent only ‘some of’ her childhood in Spain.  

Hilaria’s biography on her agency’s speakers site states that she was born on the island of Majorca and raised in Boston, without specifying a timeline for her upbringing. In interviews over the years Hilaria has indicated that she moved from Spain to the US when she was 19 to attend New York University.   

The influencer was forced to issue the rambling seven-minute video Sunday amid an online frenzy days after a woman tweeted: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.’  

In the next few days, several videos of Hilaria’s past TV appearances resurfaced showing her commitment to a Spanish accent, including one where she appeared to forget the English word for ‘cucumber’. 

Additional posts revealed that Hilaria’s mother discussed growing up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where she spent most of her career practicing medicine.  

Now it has emerged Hilaria, who was actually born Hillary Hayward-Thomas, attended exclusive $64,900-a-year The Cambridge School of Weston in Massachusetts.

Internet sleuths were also quick to uncover details about Hilaria’s parents, Dr Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas, who worked as professors in the US for years before retiring to Majorca in 2011, according to Page Six. 

According to MassLive, Hayward, served as ‘an associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School’ until she retired.

While Hilaria has long described her mother as Spanish, records revealed that Hayward is in fact a fourth-generation Massachusetts resident. 

Hilaria’s father’s family has even deeper ties to the US, having lived here since before the American Revolution. 

Hilaria, who co-hosts the Mom Brain podcast, is listed as a 2002 alumni of The Cambridge School of Weston, despite claiming in April of this year that she moved to New York from Spain in 2003 to attend New York University. 

‘I came for school and I never, ever left,’ she said in an interview entitled Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriages.

Class ratios at her exclusive school are six students to one teacher. Other alumni include Lion King screenwriter Jonathan Roberts (1973) and American Pie actress Jennifer Coolidge (1979) who played Stifler’s mom.    

Several former classmates also came forward to confirm that Hilaria was in fact raised in Weston, Massachusetts, by professor parents without a hint of a foreign accent.  

‘I went to high school with her. Genuinely lovely person, I recall, but fully a white girl from Cambridge,’ one wrote.

Another added: ‘I went to high school with her. She was perfectly nice and serious about ballroom dancing. Her name was indeed Hillary Hayward-Thomas and she did not have her current accent.’  

Hilaria’s accent has also fluctuated as recently as last week when she took to Instagram Live to react to a prank post from comedian Amy Schumer. 

Schumer had shared a photo of Hilaria posing in lingerie with her newborn son Eduardo Pau Lucas along with a caption that painted Schumer as the person in the snap. 

Seeking to quell the social media firestorm in her video on Sunday, Hilaria said that she spent ‘some of’ her childhood in Spain and ‘some’ of it in Massachusetts, where she was born. She maintained that her entire family lives in Spain now.

The influencer has graced the cover of Spanish magazine Hola! where she was identified as a Spanish person throught the interview. 

Her husband Alec has also called his Spanish. 

He defended his wife on Instagram, saying: ‘The majority of what’s been said, and—again, I don’t want to enumerate what those things are—is false. And some of it’s so spectacularly false.’

‘There was a lot of back and forth my entire life,’ the Mom Brain podcaster explained.

‘And I’m really lucky that I grew up speaking two different languages and I’m trying to raise my kids, so they speak two languages too. And that’s something very important to me especially having my family abroad.’

‘Let’s be very clear that Europe has a lot of white people in there and my family is white. Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things. Culturally, I grew up with two cultures so it’s really as simple as that’, Hilaria said Sunday. 

Hilaria added: ‘Yeah I’m a different kind of Bostonian but that’s who I am, and you kind of can’t change your background – nor would I want to – I’m really, really proud of who I am.’

Hilaria noted that ’44 people from Spain’ attended her 2012 wedding to Oscar nominee Alec Baldwin, but she hasn’t seen her family since September 2019 because of ‘the pandemic’.

The NYU alum and her 62-year-old husband gave all five of their children Spanish names – daughter Carmen Gabriela, 7; son Rafael Thomas, 5; son Leonardo Ángel, 4; son Romeo Alejandro, 2; and son Eduardo ‘Edu’ Pao Lucas, 3 months.

As for her name, Hilaria said she’d use Hillary in the US and Hilaria in Spain. 

‘My whole family call me Hilaria. 

It always kind of bothered me that neither name sounds good in the other language. So I would use one or the other one,’ she said. 

‘A handful of years before I met Alec, I decided to consolidate the two…It means happy in both languages. I think we can all be really like clear that it’s the same name just a few letters difference, so I don’t think we should be upset about it.’  

She indicated that in her youth she tried to be her ‘coolest self,’ but ‘as you get older you kind of just embrace who you are and you just kind of want to be open about it and that’s what I’m trying to do here’. 

Hilaria – who boasts 852K Instagram followers – later shared on her Instagram story never-before-seen snaps of herself in Spain. 

She also shared a Spanish-language text from her brother and concluded: ‘I’ve said my piece.’    

Speaking about the ‘spectacularly false’ printing claims, Alec said: ‘And as much as that hurts, the only thing I can do is talk to that half of the public or that portion of the public who understands what I mean when I say: “Consider the source.” It’s a sunny day here. We’re going to enjoy a sunny day – me and my little pack.’