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Today, we're going to look at how everyone's favorite Spanish celebrity, Hilaria Baldwin,
who's actually just a lady named Hillary from Boston, Massachusetts.
So, who the heck is Hilaria Baldwin?
She's most known for being married to Alec Baldwin, a huge actor in America.
The conflict here is that people on Twitter started getting suspicious of Hilaria's background.
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In 2013, right after Alec Baldwin had gotten married, he went on the Letterman show and
had a few words to say about his wife.
My wife is from Spain.
If you go to her IMDB bio, it used to say, "Hilaria Baldwin was born in Majorca, Spain
as a Hilaria Thomas."
Her agency itself, which you have to submit your info to by the way, it says Baldwin was
born in Majorca, Spain and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.
I had 35 or 40 of my family members come from Spain.
There's this big magazine called Latina Magazine, "At Hilaria Baldwin, we should probably just
give you a permanent spot on our best dressed list," to which she says, "At Latina, ha ha.
I'll take it."
I don't know how exactly you get a whole profile in Latina magazine if you are from Spain and
therefore European.
So, I don't know why she was leaning so hard into the whole Latino thing.
They describe her as the Spanish American belleza.
So, there's a quote from her in Vanity Fair Magazine, the Spanish version, that says,
"I had to tell my family three times Baldwin and then the third time they told me, 'Oh,
we know who he is.
Why didn't you just pronounce it right the first time?'"
So, now not only has she claimed to have 35 or 40 family members in Spain, she has now
claimed out of her own mouth that her family is so Spanish in fact, they can't pronounce
non-Spanish last names like Baldwin.
We have her wearing an Espania Jersey and she has in the caption, "In case there is
any question about 'mi cultura' upbringing."
So you moved here with your parents?
No.
I moved here when I was 19 to go to NYU.
Ah, from?
My family lives in Spain.
They live in Majorca.
It seems to me like she was quite okay having us all think that she was actually from Spain
and I'm sure you know what's coming next because these stories literally all go the same way,
this Twitter user right here says, "You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin's commitment to
her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person."
So, Twitter started doing what Twitter literally always does, they started digging up old things.
People started questioning her Spanish accent and that's where things really started falling
apart for her.
We have- how do you say in English- cucumbers.
We have red peppers.
Married life is really nice.
It feels different.
Then if we fast-forward a bit. ... in shape before I have a baby and then
I stay active when I'm pregnant- And then it's gone.
Over the course of six years, your accent can absolutely disappear.
I didn't see that as enough proof that she was faking anything, but that was not the
end of it.
These are her parents, Catherine Hayward and David Thomas Junior.
As you may have guessed, neither of these people is from Spain.
Hilaria Thomas' name was not Hilaria Thomas.
She was not born in Spain, neither of her parents are of Spanish descent and her name
on her birth certificate is not Hilaria.
It's Hillary whose family just traveled to Spain a lot.
So, she wound up spending a lot of time in Spain as a child as well.
[Spanish] She speaks it.
The problem here is that this is an American woman.
She's bilingual.
That's it.
This does not make you a Spanish person.
This does not give you the right to be on Latina Magazine.
This was the first video she released the day Twitter was like, "Oh snap, your name
is Hillary and you are from Boston and you are not Spanish."
There's been some questions about where I'm born.
I'm born in Boston and then I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood
in Spain and in this country, I would use the name Hillary and in Spain, I would use
the name Hilaria and then a handful of years before I met Alec, I decided to consolidate
the two.
Something about our wedding that I have all these people from Spain come over from my
wedding, we did.
We had 44 people come over.
My family, my friends come over.
In the past, I would get very frustrated when reporters would report this or report that
and I'd try to be very clear.
The point where you're in a Spanish interview claiming that your family is so Spanish they
couldn't even pronounce Baldwin, but your mom and dad are Catherine and Dave from America.
I feel like it's safe to say there was a bit of trickery going on.
She put out the second video.
All the interviews and stuff that I do is a little bit like playing a game of telephone
where you say something and they report something else.
I was reading a direct quote.
And people, they want to label you.
I have dark hair and I speak two languages and stuff.
If she is so worried about people labeling her, why then would you go on Latina Magazine?
And people wanting to label me Spanish or American and then it can't be both together.
It can't be that I have two cultures.
Why do you need so badly to be something other than American?
Maybe that doesn't look like somebody who you've met before, but I mean isn't that the
beauty of diversity?
Diversity?
You are a white woman in America.
So, Alec Baldwin himself, he said, "You know what?
You guys are attacking my wife for misleading you?
I'm going to attack you."
I just want to say to people that, as a quick little thought, which is that you got to consider
the source.
He's the source.
You have to consider the source.
Consider the source.
Okay.
Consider the source.
I mean, if someone said to me- Brainwashing.
He's brainwashing us into forgetting the Hilaria Baldwin controversy.
Consider the source.
Stop.
Consider the source.
When you love somebody, you want to defend them.
What is happening?
What just happened?
Consider the source.
He just evolved into Alec Baldwin, boyfriend ASMR, brainwashing.
So listen, I want to end this stream by highlighting other people's voices.
So, this is from Aura Bogado, "The fact that Hilaria Baldwin pretended to be from Spain
with that ridiculous accent while some of us have been denied opportunities for our
actual accents is disgusting.
The fact that she pretended to be an immigrant at a time of hatred, detention, and deportation
is sick.
These are things that exist in particular to certain people.
Immigrants of color with accents find it even more challenging.
It's beyond defensive that Hilaria Baldwin pretended to be someone she's not.
Next time, hopefully before she spits all those facts, she thinks about considering
the source and then we can take her seriously."
Okay.
The second one I want to listen to, Jesus Rosas.
I'm sure she fell in love with Spanish culture with the paellas and the tapas.
I think it's great that she's raising her children to be bilingual, but it's another
thing to force her Latina attitude to look more Latina and by the way, Latino and Spanish
are two different things and if you mix them up, Sofia Vergara will come and kick you in
the face.
I am mad.
You might say that this is all show business nonsense, but I think it's a very interesting
discussion.
It's great when you feel attracted to a different culture, like for example how the Japanese
love flamenco music, but if you pretend that you're something that you're not even if you're
just vague about it, it's not going to end well especially if you are a very public person.
Did he just spit facts for three minutes in a row?
He didn't miss once, okay?
Listening to minority people, marginalized groups, people of color, all that jazz is
all well and good, but you are allowed to reject their opinions if they fail to consider
the source.
If we've learned anything here, if you ever make a mistake in life, you can just pay Alec
Baldwin to brainwash everyone into forgetting that you did it.
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