Alec Baldwin's wife 'Hilaria' keeps digging after getting royally busted for allegedly — how you say in English? — lying about Spanish heritage [videos]

Rachel Dolezal (and Shaun King, for that matter) may still hold the crown when it comes to appropriation, but Hilaria Baldwin’s no slouch, either.

See, it seems that Alec Baldwin’s Spanish wife is actually not Spanish at all. She’s just Hillary Hayward-Thomas, American white girl from Boston, a city that is not in Spain:

Further posts showed Hilaria’s mother discussing growing up in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and numerous articles pointed to how she had spent virtually her entire career practicing medicine in Massachusetts, where she’d served as “an associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School” until she “retired from both positions in 2012,” according to MassLive. (In a video interview she said she moved to Mallorca, Spain, in 2011, the same year Hilaria began dating Alec.) An obituary for Hilaria’s grandfather on her father’s side stated that he was an American with roots in the country that “pre-dated the American Revolution,” while a wedding announcement indicated that her grandfather’s first wife (and mother of their children) hailed from Nebraska.

Hilaria Baldwin’s CAA speaker page claims that she was born in Mallorca, Spain, as does her IMDb bio and Wikipedia page. She said on a podcast earlier this year: “I moved here [to America] when I was 19 to go to NYU from… my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca,” adding, “I knew no pop culture.” She has graced the cover of Hola! magazine, a Spanish-language publication based out of Madrid, where she was identified as a Spanish person in both the interview and its press release. Alec Baldwin has repeatedly referred to her as “Spanish” online. And she’s made a number of appearances in Latina magazine, which she’s enthusiastically promoted (Spain is not a part of Latin America, by the way), and has referred to Spain as her “home.”

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It appears that Hilaria’s real name is Hillary Hayward-Thomas, according to her old MySpace page and those who claim to be her old classmates. She attended the private Cambridge School of Weston, in Massachusetts, and in her senior yearbook is listed as “Hillary Hayward-Thomas”

The Hilaria Baldwin thing is riotously funny, and she is 100% dead-to-rights nailed for faking her ethnic heritage her entire adult life. The clip where she (a whiter-than-white Bostonian) pretends to not know how to say "cucumber" in English will make you collapse. Como se dice?

— Jeff B., who on earth is this guy?? (@EsotericCD) December 28, 2020

I will always wonder what possesses people like this to fake their ethnic backgrounds. I know my speculative answer (in the modern woke era, it's far more advantageous socially to be non-white because you get 'progressive stack' and 'exotic' cred), but that's mere speculation.

— Jeff B., who on earth is this guy?? (@EsotericCD) December 28, 2020

I mean, SHE CHANGED HER NAME FROM HILARY TO HILARIA. How f***ing funny is that? Her parents moved to Spain not because they're *from* there, but because it was a nice posh vacation spot for extremely rich people. It's so contemptible.

— Jeff B., who on earth is this guy?? (@EsotericCD) December 28, 2020

It’s so … Baldwinesque.

Alec Baldwin's wife 'Hilaria' keeps digging after getting royally busted for allegedly — how you say in English? — lying about Spanish heritage [videos]

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