According to Heidi Baldwin, claims that she fabricated a Spanish accent have caused her to feel “hurt.”
The 41-year-old businesswoman opened up on her family’s new reality show ‘ The Baldwins’, where she reflected on the 2020 scandal surrounding her Spanish heritage, admitting the ordeal caused her sadness. Hilaria emphasized her love for both Spanish and English in a heartfelt way.
She said: “I love English, I also love Spanish, and when I mix the two it doesn’t make me inauthentic, and when I mix the two, that makes me normal”. She confessed that the accusations had taken a toll: “I’d be lying if I said]the controversy] didn’t make me sad and it didn’t hurt and it didn’t put me in dark places”.
However, she gained strength from her loved ones and their understanding of a multicultural life: “But it was my family, my friends, my community who have belonged in different places, and realized that we are a mix of all these different things and that’s going to have an impact on how we sound, and we will have an impact on how we speak, and we will choose to speak in our mannerisms.”
Hilaria emphasised the normality and humanity of such experiences: “That’s normal. That’s called being human”. Hilaria emphasizes her children’s ability to speak Spanish and credit her upbringing and their current residence in Spain.
“My entire nuclear family now reside in Spain,” my family said. I want to impart my children’s ability to speak other languages. It’s very special to me to grow up in two different languages and speak them. Hilaria has previously addressed the controversy on social media, and this is not her first.
She addressed her followers on Instagram, saying: “I’ve seen chatter online questioning my identity and culture. This is something I take very seriously, and for those who are asking – I’ll reiterate my story, as I’ve done many times before”. She continued to state her background, saying, “I was born in Boston and spent my early years residing between Massachusetts and Spain. I chose to live in the USA because my parents and sibling live there.
Fans have noticed a change in her accent since watching her on television over the years. While on Good Morning America in 2012, she had a distinctive Spanish accent. A couple of years later, on the Today Show, she appeared to struggle with English while making gazpacho. Then, in 2020, fans noticed her accent was more Americanised.
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