Hilaria Baldwin fires back at fake accent criticism: It makes me normal

Hola! Hilaria Balwin addressed criticism that her Spanish accent – which often mysteriously vanishes – is “fake” in her new TLC show.Called “The Baldwins,” the reality show premieres Sunday, Feb.23 (10 p.m.) and follows her home life with Alec Baldwin and their seven kids in their five-bedroom Manhattan apartment. In the series premiere, Hilaria defends her there-and-gone accent.“I love English, I also love Spanish,” she told the cameras.

“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,” she said regarding criticism that her accent is fake.“That’s normal.

That’s called being human.”The former yoga instructor, 41, and actor, 66, have been married since 2012.They’re parents of Carmen, 11, Rafael, 9, Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 6, Eduardo and Marilu, 4, and Ilaria, 2.

Alec and ex-wife Kim Basinger are also parents of daughter Ireland, 29.Ever since she rose into the spotlight, her ethnicity and background has been a subject of public speculation. Hilaria claims to be Spanish, and has a Spanish accent that often vanishes as her voice becomes English.  In 2020, a tweet from Leni Brisco read: “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.”Hilaria took to Instagram to respond in a video. “There’s been some questions about where I’m born, I’m born in Boston … I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain, my family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everybody is over there in Spain now, I’m here,” she said at the time. Her former classmates also came forward around that time, tweeting: “I went to high scho...