Critics on social media believe they have uncovered Hilaria Baldwin's decades-long ruse of pretending to have a Spanish accent.

If you&#39;ve only recently rejoined the Internet after a phone-free weekend at a cabin in the woods, you may see a lot of chatter on Twitter about <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hilariabaldwin/" target="_blank">Hilaria Baldwin</a> and her Spanish accent of undetermined authenticity. The conspiracy has now snowballed in a case, backed by an onslaught of evidence, that alleges Baldwin has been lying about her Spanish accent for years. Wife to actor Alec Baldwin and aunt to <a href="https://www.lofficielusa.com/fashion/hailey-bieber-birthday-street-style" target="_blank">Hailey Bieber</a> n&eacute;e Baldwin, the wellness influencer was first accused of fabricating her background last week on social media. Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/lenibriscoe" target="_blank">@lenibriscoe</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/lenibriscoe/status/1341095257233125379" target="_blank">tweeted</a>, &quot;You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin&rsquo;s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.&quot; This began a thread of clips and quotes&nbsp;that seems to support the claim.

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@lenibriscoe

According to her bio for <a href="https://www.caa.com/caaspeakers/hilaria-baldwin#biography" target="_blank">CAA Speakers</a>, Hilaria &quot;was born in Mallorca, Spain and raised in Boston, Massachusetts.&quot; On the #MomTruths&nbsp;podcast in early 2020,&nbsp;Hilaria&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/rachel/status/1343063509941235712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1343063509941235712%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thecut.com%2F2020%2F12%2Funpacking-the-drama-around-hilaria-baldwins-spanish-accent.html" target="_blank">said</a>,&nbsp;&quot;I moved [to America] when I was 19 to go to NYU from&mdash;my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca.&quot; However,&nbsp;her old <a href="https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_160916550526011&amp;key=6a36a95420ef4fff0d4ccd0846300d72&amp;libId=kj8niqol0101k4gh000DL1m8auxlq920t0&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Falec-baldwins-wife-hilaria-baldwin-has-been-posing-as-a-spanish-person-for-years%3Fvia%3Dtwitter_page&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fmyspace.com%2F156442767%2Fmixes%2Fclassic-my-photos-554412&amp;title=Alec%20Baldwin%E2%80%99s%20Wife%2C%20Hilaria%20Baldwin%2C%20Has%20Been%20Posing%20as%20a%20Spanish%20Person%20for%20Years&amp;txt=her%20old%20MySpace%20page" target="_blank">MySpace page</a> states that Hilaria attended high school at the&nbsp;Cambridge School of Weston&nbsp;in Massachusetts, using the name Hilary Hayward-Thomas. Someone claiming to be a former high school classmate <a href="https://twitter.com/DavidGolann/status/1342466308194107392" target="_blank">tweeted</a> that &quot;she had no accent, was archetypal northeastern prep schooler. we all mythologize ourselves, but her pretending to be ESL is a level of exaggeration that seems problematic.&quot;

Even more disturbing, her family&#39;s ancestral links&nbsp;to Spain&nbsp;remain to be seen. Her mother, <a href="https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_160916829634814&amp;key=6a36a95420ef4fff0d4ccd0846300d72&amp;libId=kj8niqol0101k4gh000DL1m8auxlq920t0&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Falec-baldwins-wife-hilaria-baldwin-has-been-posing-as-a-spanish-person-for-years%3Fvia%3Dtwitter_page&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.masslive.com%2Fnews%2F2016%2F04%2Fdoctor_to_speak_at_bay_path_un.html&amp;title=Alec%20Baldwin%E2%80%99s%20Wife%2C%20Hilaria%20Baldwin%2C%20Has%20Been%20Posing%20as%20a%20Spanish%20Person%20for%20Years&amp;txt=numerous%20articles" target="_blank">Dr. Kathryn Hayward</a>, has built a career as a&nbsp;Longmeadow, Massachusetts physician. A <a href="https://twitter.com/lenibriscoe/status/1341106801706721280" target="_blank">video</a> of Hayward, who retired in 2012, speaking show that she has no accent, though a <a href="https://evirtualsummits.com/member/dr-kathryn-hayward/" target="_blank">bio for eVirtual Summits</a> says she lives in Mallorca, Spain. On Hilaria/Hilary&#39;s father&#39;s side, an <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bennington/obituary.aspx?n=david-l-thomas&amp;pid=195863246" target="_blank">obituary</a> of her grandfather explicitly states that his famial ties to the United States &quot;pre-dated the American Revolution,&quot; while her grandmother is from Nebraska, per this <a href="https://redirect.viglink.com/?format=go&amp;jsonp=vglnk_160916570330913&amp;key=6a36a95420ef4fff0d4ccd0846300d72&amp;libId=kj8niqol0101k4gh000DL1m8auxlq920t0&amp;loc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Falec-baldwins-wife-hilaria-baldwin-has-been-posing-as-a-spanish-person-for-years%3Fvia%3Dtwitter_page&amp;v=1&amp;out=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lindenwood.edu%2Ffiles%2Fresources%2F1947-01.pdf&amp;title=Alec%20Baldwin%E2%80%99s%20Wife%2C%20Hilaria%20Baldwin%2C%20Has%20Been%20Posing%20as%20a%20Spanish%20Person%20for%20Years&amp;txt=while%20a%20wedding%20announcement" target="_blank">wedding announcement</a>.

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@DavidGolann

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As for the depth of Hilaria&#39;s alleged lie, not only has she been heard in several interviews with a hint of a Spanish tongue, in a cooking segment for The&nbsp;Today Show, she seemingly forgets the English word for &quot;cucumber,&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/lenibriscoe/status/1341103380899442689" target="_blank">saying</a>, &quot;We have&mdash;how you say in English&mdash;cucumbers.&quot; In 2012, she posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/SophRossss/status/1343379689142964228" target="_blank">photo</a> on Instagram wearing an Espa&ntilde;a jersey with the caption, &quot;in case there was any question about mi cultura upbringing.&quot; Her five children with Alec bare traditional&nbsp;Spanish names:&nbsp;Carmen Gabriela, Rafael Thomas,&nbsp;Leonardo &Aacute;ngel David, Romeo&nbsp;Alejandro, and Eduardo Pau Lucas. She has also appeared in several Latin magainzes, including <a href="https://us.hola.com/en/celebrities/2018102912905/alec-baldwin-hilaria-baldwin-hola-usa-exclusive/" target="_blank">Hola!</a> and <a href="http://www.latina.com/lifestyle/health/hilaria-baldwin-living-clearly-method-exclusive-interview" target="_blank">Latina</a>,&nbsp;though Spain&nbsp;is not a Latin American country.

However, other interviews and <a href="https://twitter.com/lenibriscoe/status/1341103989878902787" target="_blank">videos</a> show her without a Spanish accent at all.

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In response to the accusations, Hilaria took to Instagram to clear the air. In a video, she&nbsp;refers to herself as a &quot;different kind of Bostonian,&quot; explaining that though&nbsp;she was born in Boston, she &quot;grew up spending time with [her]&nbsp;family between Massachusetts and Spain.&quot;&nbsp;She states, &ldquo;There was a lot of back-and-forth my entire life, and I&rsquo;m really lucky that I grew up speaking two languages.&quot;

She goes on to say, &quot;I think some people ask sometime about how I speak. I am that person that if I&#39;ve been speaking a lot of Spanish, I, you know, tend to mix them. If I&#39;m speaking a lot of English, or more English, I tend to mix that.&quot;

In regards to her name, she says that Hilary is the name she used in school, while Hilaria is what her family calls her.&nbsp;She continues, &quot;Yes I am a white girl &hellip; Europe has a lot of white people in there. My family is white. Ethnically, I am a mix of many, many, many things; culturally, I grew up with the two cultures. So it&rsquo;s really as simple as that.

After her response was still met with critism, she posted another video continuing to tell her side of the story,&nbsp;&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve never said that my mother was Spanish, my family is a big mix of so many different things,&rdquo; she explains. &ldquo;My thing is about being authentic and when people say I&rsquo;m not being authentic, it hurts my feelings.&quot;

She continues, &quot;I don&rsquo;t really understand why this is turning into such a big thing. I want to take it seriously, but I also don&rsquo;t want it to be all of a sudden I&rsquo;m apologizing for who I am. Because at this point, I&rsquo;m starting to feel that I&rsquo;m being attacked for who I am, and that no answer is the right answer.&rdquo;

Did Hilaria Baldwin Fake a Spanish Accent?

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