Hilaria Baldwin Accused Of Pretending To Be Spanish, Claps Back At Critics

Hilaria Baldwin is not backing down and has fired back at her critics who questioned her accent and ethnicity on social media.

Last week, one Twitter user questioned the 36-year-old yoga instructor's Spanish roots, citing her "fake Spanish accent" and noting that she grew up in Massachusetts where she went by Hillary when she was a student. The tweet had gone viral and triggered discussion and mockery.

"as someone who can’t commit to anything at all in my life, I must say that I am impressed by Hilaria Baldwin’s decades-long commitment to a false identity and instilling that in five children she grew inside of her body, gave Spanish names, and is now forcing to grow up bilingual," one person tweeted.

"Her mother is Dr. Kathryn Hayward, who grew up in Western Mass. The parents now live in Spain but neither have Spanish heritage," another user wrote.

"I read that she’s been faking a Spanish accent and is actually from Boston?! Absolutely crazy woman," another commented.

"I don’t begrudge Hilaria Baldwin for coming up with a Spanish persona to spice up her life. But bringing up flamenco in interviews and naming your child 'Carmen' is just lazy character work imo," a fourth netizen wrote.

Alyssa Bereznak, a writer who once interviewed Baldwin, recalled their conversation about her prenatal yoga series with husband Alec Baldwin. The yoga instructor allegedly "sorta brought up Spain out of nowhere" during their conversation, Bereznak said.

Addressing the speculations, Baldwin stressed in a new Instagram video that she was born in Boston and divides her time between Massachusetts and Spain, where her parents and siblings live. She added that she and her husband are raising their children — daughter Carmen, 7, and sons Rafael, 5, Leonardo, 4, Romeo, 2, and Eduardo, 3 months — to be bilingual, just as she was raised, and she's proud of it.

"If I've been speaking a lot of Spanish, I tend to mix them and if I'm speaking more English...then I mix that," she explained. "It's one of those things that's always been a little bit, I've been a little insecure about," she said, adding that she starts to mix languages when she feels nervous or upset."

Baldwin also asked her haters to "just leave me alone."

"Leave me alone. I'm not doing anything wrong by being me and maybe that doesn't look like somebody who you've met before, but I mean, isn't that the beauty of diversity?" she said.

She continued, "There's nothing wrong with me and I'm not going to apologize for the amount of time that I spent in two countries and I'm not going to apologize for the fact that I speak two languages and I'm not going to apologize for the fact that I have two versions of my name."