New York Post

Hilaria hysteria grips ’gram

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HILARIA Baldwin is defending her fluctuatin­g Spanish accent — after she admitted her real name is Hillary. Alec Baldwin’s wife took to Instagram Sunday after a social-media storm following this tweet: “You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonat­es a Spanish person.”

Baldwin’s bio on her agency’s site states she was born in Majorca, Spain, and raised in Boston. Her 2016 interview with Hola! says: “Hilaria, who was born in Spain, has made certain to raise her children with her native language, Spanish.”

In TV appearance­s, she has spoken with a pronounced Spanish accent, and on one occasion during a cooking segment even seemingly forgot the English word for “cucumber.” But she left fans confused when she recently broke out an American accent defending herself in an Instagram beef with Amy Schumer.

Internet sleuthing then claimed that Baldwin’s given name is Hillary Hayword-Thomas. Former classmates recalled her on Twitter as a high school student who “did not have her current accent.” Baldwin is listed as an alum of the Cambridge School in Weston, but in April she told “Motherhood, Marriage & Miscarriag­es” she moved to NYC from Spain when she was 19 to attend NYU. Baldwin’s parents do live on Majorca after having left the States in 2011.

In lengthy Instagram videos, Baldwin fired back, saying, “I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain, my family, my brother, my parents, my nephew, everybody is over there in Spain now.” She said she grew up speaking Spanish and English, and, “I tend to mix them . . . It’s not something I’m playing at.” She also said, “When I was growing up, in this country I would use the name Hillary, and in Spain I would use Hilaria.” She said, “I feel really lucky that I grew up with two cultures, I grew up speaking two languages,” and, “I’m getting attacked for being who I am . . . people wanting to label me Spanish or American, can’t it be both? It’s frustratin­g that is my story.”

Her rep did not comment to Page Six.

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