The first episode of Alec and Hilaria Baldwin’s new reality series premieres on TLC on February 23. However, she’s now made it clear that she won’t let the controversy about her heritage get to her. “I 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,” she said during a confessional interview in the season premiere of The Baldwins. “I'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.”.
She emphasized that she’s learned to embrace her different heritages with the help of her friends and family. “My 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’s 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,” she added. “That’s normal. That’s called being human.”.
She also opened up about teaching Spanish to her and Alec’s seven children: Carmen, 11, Rafael, nine, Leonardo, eight, Romeo, six, Eduardo, four, María, three, and Ilaria, two. “I'm raising my kids to be bilingual, I was raised bilingual,” she said. “My family — all my nuclear family — 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.”.
“For 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,” one person responded to the recent cooking video on X. “No 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’t wrap my head around it. How do you sound like that when you’re from Boston?” another wrote.
