Hilaria Baldwin’s ADHD claim fails to explain her many Spanish falsehoods ...Middle East

Five years after Hilaria Baldwin was called out for spending the better part of a decade allegedly misleading people into believing that she’s an exotic Spanish immigrant, the influencer wife of Alec Baldwin is now using her new memoir, “Manual Not Included,” to once again try to rebut her “grifter” label.

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In her book, the Boston-born-and-raised yoga teacher discusses having ADHD and blames the condition for her Spanish identity scandal. The one-time Hillary Hayward-Thomas describes how her brain is wired differently and argues that her neurodivergence is the reason that she shifts between English and Spanish accents and words — most notoriously when she acted as though she couldn’t remember the English word for “cucumber” during a 2015  “Today” show cooking segment.

Hilaria Baldwin first revealed her ADHD diagnosis on “The Baldwins,” the “bizarre” and “dreadful” TLC reality TV show that she recently co-starred in with her husband and their seven children.

But among the many reasons that Baldwin’s ADHD excuse is problematic is that she only focuses on how the condition supposedly impacts how she talks. Conveniently, she avoids addressing all the times she offered false or misleading information about her heritage in interviews and on social media, which would allow reasonable people to believe she’s not American. She also repeatedly let the media or others talk about how she was born in Spain, or grew up there, without correcting them.

Meanwhile, Baldwin writes: “I have ADHD and dyslexia, and these greatly impact my speech, my reading, my listening, my focus, my memory, and my self-confidence.” She also describes her accent “fluidity” as a form of code switching — as when pro soccer players move around teams in different counties, and their accents, voices and speech change, depending on the cultural context.

Baldwin, though, isn’t just blaming her ADHD for the controversy. She also cites her upbringing, which she acknowledges took place in Boston. She said she grew up with parents who love Spanish culture, especially her father, and it’s well-known that they retired to the island of Mallorca. In her book, Baldwin says she was raised in a home where both English and Spanish were freely spoken. This bilingual upbringing, coupled with her ADHD, has caused her to sometimes forget words — presumably like cucumber.

But gossip reporter Perez Hilton is among the many online challenging her ADHD explanation. He declared on Instagram: “You don’t forget words because you have ADHD and dyslexia. It’s because you’re a grifter.” It’s also not hard to find numerous examples of Baldwin trying to spin a tale of being a glamorous Latina, who captured the heart of a famous American film and TV star and who is raising her seven children in a cosmopolitan, multicultural household. Here are some of those examples:

— Baldwin’s new book makes no mention of the fact that she once referred to herself as a “Spanish yoga teacher” on Twitter — all the way back in September 2011, seven months after she met her future husband.

— Around the time that the then-27-year-old yoga teacher married the 53-year-old “30 Rock” star in 2012, she gave multiple interviews in which she presented herself as being from Spain. She told People magazine that she chose her Spanish mantilla bridal veil to bring “a bit of my culture” into the ceremony and boasted to Extra about the “35 or 40″ family members who came to her wedding from Spain,” while she and her new husband planned to honeymoon in “España.”

— Hilaria Baldwin also told the Spanish-language Vanity Fair España that her family had a hard time pronouncing her new American married name, despite the fact that her mother is a fourth-generation Massachusetts resident and her father’s family ties in the United States go back to the American Revolution. “I had to repeat it to my family three times: Baldddwinnn,” Hilaria Baldwin told the magazine. Incidentally, that article was reportedly headlined  “The Spanish Woman Who Seduced The Seducer,” and it’s been removed from the site.

— Over the years, other publications, including the Spanish-language Hola, published features on Hilaria Baldwin that described her as Spanish, Latina or Spanish-American, according to Business Insider and the Hilaria Baldwin sub-Reddit. In one of those articles, Hilaria Baldwin told Hola that Spanish was her “native language,” while she took to social media to boast that Latina magazine had picked her as one of the best-dressed Latinas during one week in 2013.

— Up until the scandal erupted, Baldwin’s biography page on her agency’s speakers website stated that she “was born in Mallorca, Spain, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, according to a 2020 report in The Sun.

— In interviews, Baldwin talked about coming to the United States from Spain to go to school, or she made countless references to how “we do things” in Spain.” In 2020, she said on her “MomBrain” podcast that she’s long been a fan of Zara because, “you know it is a Spanish brand, so I’ve known about it for very, very, very long time before I was in this country.” On another parenting podcast, she said she moved to the United States “when I as 19 to go to NYU.” Asked where she moved from, Baldwin answered: “From — my family lives in Spain, they live in Mallorca.”

— In 2019, she strongly implied that she was a person of color when she posted an Instagram clip with her oldest daughter Carmen, comparing her “darker” skin to her daughter’s in order to offer a lesson on racism in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

— Alec Baldwin also seemed to go along with his wife’s Spanish identity “grift,” knowingly or not. He notoriously imitated her Spanish accent during interviews with David Letterman and Howard Stern. In 2013, he outright told Letterman: “My wife is from Spain.” The next year, the “Rust” star promoted a new movie in Spain and told reporters — accurately — that his wife was born in Boston. But he then offered since-disputed information about her family’s background, saying: “Her father’s mother’s family, the paternal grandmother, is from Spain.”

— The couple appeared more than willing to continue the alleged “grift” at the United Nations in 2019, where they were both invited to speak at a special UN session on healthy eating and the environment. During the panel discussion, Baldwin spoke with a slight accent, and neither she nor Alec corrected the moderator when he referred to her as “Spanish as well as American,” according to a clip of the event.

The moderator, a top international health expert, also asked about the Mediterranean diet of Spain that Baldwin’s family “might have been eating at home.” To that, she spoke with a Spaniard’s familiarity with the country’s food culture. She said, “And so in Spain, we eat a lot of dairy. There is a lot of meat. There is a bit of a shift, but, yes, it is more typical of the diet (in Spain) than it is in this country.”

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