In the age of sexual “fluidity,” actor Alec Baldwin’s wife, Hilaria Baldwin, is saying she can identify as ethnically “fluid.”
“When you are multi, it can feel hard to belong,” she wrote in a recent Instagram post. “You are constantly going back and forth, trying to be more of this or more that. You feel you have to explain why you are the way you are, trying to fit into a world of labels when there might not be one that perfectly defines you. You will never quite fit in, because the other parts of you shape and influence all your parts.”
“We need to normalize the fact that we are all unique — our culture, languages, sexual orientations, religions, political beliefs are allowed to be fluid,” Hilaria Baldwin continued. “No two of us are completely alike.”
The 37-year-old author, wedded to the left-leaning Alec Baldwin, faced backlash last year, when she was rebuked by others of committing a “decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person.”
Hilaria Baldwin, whose birth name is Hillary, has claimed she was born in Mallorca, Spain, before moving to Boston, where she was raised. It has since been revealed the yoga instructor was born in Massachusetts.
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She said in an Instagram post at the time that she takes the charges against her “very seriously,” explaining that she was, in fact, born in Boston but “grew up spending time with my family between Massachusetts and Spain.”
“My parents and siblings live in Spain and I chose to live here, in the USA,” Hilaria Baldwin explained. “We celebrate both cultures in our home — Alec and I are raising our children bilingual, just as I was raised. This is very important to me. I understand that my story is a little different, but it is mine, and I’m very proud of it.”
She added she finds it “frustrating” people won’t accept that she “has two cultures” because that “is my story” and it’s “a really great thing.”
Nevertheless, the criticism has continued.
Journalist Amil Niazi wrote last week that Hilaria Baldwin is exemplary “of a certain kind of wealthy, middle-class white woman who seeks out cultural affections to approximate a personality because they lack any defining character otherwise.”
“Who is Hilary [sic],” she asked, “without ‘Hilaria?’”
New York Post columnist Maureen Callahan compared Hilaria Baldwin to former NAACP chapter president Rachel Dolezal, who, though born white, identifies as ethnically black.
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Like Hilaria Baldwin, Dolezal has also faced widespread rebuke.
Callahan referred to Hilaria Baldwin as “the Rachel Dolezal of the Hamptons,” whom she wrote is “doubling down online, lecturing us ignoramuses on concepts such as ‘fluidity’ and ‘curation,’ invalidation and normalization and all the other junk jargon that permeates college campuses and the cringe-y online self-affirmations of the rampantly insecure.”