Alec Baldwin Speaks Out After Wife Hilaria's Heritage and Spanish Accent Is Questioned

Love comes first. Alec Baldwin paid tribute to his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, on her birthday after she was accused of faking her Spanish accent and background last month.

Alec Baldwin is doing his best to keep his embattled wife Hilaria Baldwin in high spirits despite the onslaught of criticism she's received over the past week for allegedly "pretending" to be Spanish. The yoga expert, 36, is at the center of a scandal after it was revealed that she was actually born and raised in Boston, not Spain as she has implied.

Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria Baldwin, are doing their best to deal with the recent uproar over her heritage.A source tells ET that the couple and their family are «very upset» that Hilaria's identity and background «are being questioned,» following social media claims that she has exaggerated her connection to Spain. The Baldwins are parents to five kids, Carmen, 7, Rafael, 5, Leonardo, 4, Romeo, 2, and Eduardo, 3 months.«Hilaria is such a soft-spoken, kind, caring and loving person, and

Hilaria Baldwin, whose heritage, accent and connection to Spain have come into question. The 57-year-old brother of Alec Baldwin, Hilaria's husband, spoke in an interview with last Tuesday, which was published over the weekend. “This is probably an awkward and embarrassing time for Alec and Hilaria,” Billy said.

listed her as having been born in Mallorca, Spain and a clip where she appeared to forget how to say cucumber in English resurfaced.  Baldwin has since spoken out to confirm she was named Hillary and born in Boston, but said she had also spent parts of her childhood in Spain and grew up speaking both languages.

Spanish-accent scandal said in a new interview that the popular yoga guru should “own what she did” — and called her claims of being born in Spain “offensive and wrong.”The woman, who started a thread Monday under @LeniBriscoe that questioned Baldwin’s claim she was born in Mallorca, told the Daily Mail that she has few regrets about being behind the brouhaha.“People were asking me don’t you have anything better to do and the answer is: no I don’t,” she told the news outlet on condition of

There’s a special satisfaction that comes from watching these Hilaria Baldwin Spanish accent videos, as they all but confirm what social media users believe is a decades-long ruse by Alec Baldwin’s wife pretending to be Spanish.

As if this scandal couldn’t get weirder, it seems that even Hilaria Baldwin and Alec’s wedding had Spanish appropriation baked into its theme. Hilaria—who was born Hillary Thomas-Hayward in Boston, Massachusetts—incorporated her self-proclaimed Spanish “culture” into her June 2012 wedding to the 30 Rock actor with readings in both Spanish and English, a flamenco hand fan, and a veil reminiscent of a Spanish mantilla.

Alec Baldwin is continuing to stand by his wife Hilaria Baldwin, fighting off critics who claim she has been misrepresenting the extent of her Spanish heritage. The 62-year-old actor and Donald Trump impersonator shared a Mark Twain quote to his Instagram on Tuesday after the story surrounding Hilaria, 36, dominated news headlines a day prior.

The past is coming back with a BITE!

Ireland Baldwin is speaking out in support of her stepmother, Hilaria Baldwin, who was forced to clarify her heritage amid claims she's faked a Spanish accent for years. Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger's 25-year-old daughter reacted to the controversy in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday in which she discusses her own difficulty of growing up in the limelight and watching details of her family's personal struggles play out in the media.

has been lying about her Spanish heritage. «A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,» the quote reads. In response to the post, Instagram user @Bmimbaugh wrote, «Like your wife being Spanish when she lived In Massachusetts her entire life.

Alec Baldwin has never been one to hold back from speaking his mind, and it looks like 2020 is no different!

Alec Baldwin snapped at several Instagram users as questions about wife Hilaria Baldwin’s background continue to make headlines.The 62-year-old posted a Mark Twain quote about lying on Monday, December 28, the day after social media users accused the 36-year-old former yoga instructor of faking her Spanish heritage.“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes,” the quote read.It didn’t take long for things to get tense in the comments section of the

Alec Baldwin is continuing to stick up for his wife Hilaria following the recent accent controversy.

Hilaria Baldwin came into the spotlight in the last week for all the wrong reasons as people began accusing her of faking her ethnicity.