Hilaria Baldwin, born Hillary Lynn Thomas in Boston, Massachusetts, was boosted further into the spotlight when a viral Twitter thread claimed she had spent the better part of a decade leading people to believe she was from Spain.
Hilaria, the wife of actor Alec Baldwin, recently said she was indeed born in Massachusetts and that her birth name is Hillary. But her previous public life on social media and in interviews led many to believe a completely different picture of her familial background.
"The things I have shared about myself are very clear," she told the New York Times in her first public interview about the scandal. "I was born in Boston. I spent time in Boston and in Spain. My family now lives in Spain. I moved to New York when I was 19 years old and I have lived here ever since. For me, I feel like I have spent 10 years sharing that story over and over again. And now it seems like it's not enough."
Insider went through Hilaria's full Instagram post history, tweets, her family's blog posts, and seven years' worth of public interviews to see how Hilaria's statements on her background have evolved since she married Alec and joined the public spotlight. Neither Hilaria nor her representatives responded to Insider's request for comment.
Many of the following examples were highlighted in Twitter user @lenibriscoe's viral thread here, while others were discovered by Insider in our research on Hilaria's background and her parent's blog posts.
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