Over the weekend, Alec Baldwin's influencer Hilaria Baldwin was criticized for once more using one in every of the couple's seven young children to advertise herself, this time by supporting their 11-year-old daughter as a skincare visionary who co-authored a book along with her own recipes for “natural” beauty products.
But critics of the Baldwins' attention-grabbing ways can take heart from a brand new report that resurrects Hilaria Baldwin's 2020 Spanish “cultural appropriation” scandal. This report comes from satirical news site The Onion, which published a damning fake news story headlined “Hilaria Baldwin Deported.”
“In a surprising end to the 40-year-old media personality's rise to fame, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed on Monday that Hilaria Baldwin has been deported to Spain,” the story begins.
The story touches on some real-life elements of the Hilaria and Alec Baldwin saga, including the way in which the couple prepares to star on a TLC reality show about their hectic family life with so many young children. For Baldwin, a long-acclaimed, Emmy-winning television and film actor, working on reality TV was seen as a downfall. However, the 66-year-old “SNL” star complains that his profession options have been limited since his involvement within the fatal shooting of camerawoman Halyna Hutchins on the set of his western film “Rust” in 2021.
The Onion post humorously suggests that the truth TV show could also be a no-go, as Hilaria Baldwin was “taken into custody” in a raid on the couple's Greenwich Village penthouse and “put on a repatriation flight at New York's Kennedy Airport was sent”.
The satirical article then delves into some of the most memorable details of the bizarre but strangely entertaining scandal surrounding the former yoga teacher's Spanish heritage. In late 2020, social media users revealed a decade's worth of instances in which Boston-born Hillary Hayward-Thomas spoke with a Spanish accent in television interviews or indirectly identified herself as being from Mallorca, Spain, and coming to the United States to study at New York University.
The Onion quoted an “ICE spokesperson” as saying, “Hilaria Baldwin has publicly stated that she moved to the United States in 2003 to attend college and there is no record of her obtaining a visa , we assume that she lived illegally. “I have been working in this country ever since.”
The “spokesman” also said that agents seized “what’s believed to be a fake birth certificate” identifying her as Hillary Lynn Hayward-Thomas and listing her birthplace as Boston. The spokeswoman added: “Although she has begun to discover as American in recent times, she has admitted on quite a few previous occasions that she is Spanish.”
“Even while speaking to our agents, Baldwin continually switched back and forth between American and Spanish accents,” the spokesperson continued. “She was clearly faking it.”
The Onion writer also “interviewed” so-called residents of her building who complained about the noise from the Baldwins' penthouse and noted that she often stumbled “over basic English words.” Hilaria Baldwin was notoriously captured on tape I'm doing a “Today” show cooking demo for gazpacho and I'm looking for the word for cucumber. She actually asked in the section, “How do you say cucumber in English?”
A “neighbor” wondered if the “Spanish” Hilaria Baldwin gave birth to so many children in the hopes of gaining a foothold in America. “This marriage is clearly a sham marriage,” said the “neighbor.” “I can only imagine how she must have thrown herself at this man in the hope that it would get her a green card. Why else would an attractive young woman like her want to be with someone her age?”
Ouch.
The Onion also criticized Baldwin's involvement in the “Rust” tragedy, saying that the New York City Department of Child Protective Services had taken into custody the couple's seven children, all of whom have Spanish-inspired first names. An agency representative “confirmed that they were not allowed to remain in the care of their father, who shot and killed a woman in New Mexico.”
But in real life, of course, Hilaria Baldwin won't be deported. Instead she showed up on Instagram on the weekendShe shares a photo of herself with her 11-year-old daughter Carmen on the cover of a new book they reportedly collaborated on, Glowing Up: Recipes to Rock Your Natural Beauty.
“If your child is like ours, skincare is an obsession,” Hilaria Baldwin began her caption. She said that Carmen enjoys making her own skin care products in the kitchen and told fans that the book is available for pre-order.
Alec Baldwin agreed to the book project and wrote in her caption: “I'm happy with you each.” Other fans found it funny to see mother and daughter involved in such a project.
But many others asked what special beauty products an 11-year-old girl needs or why you need to trust a baby's skincare recommendations. Still others despaired that the Baldwins appeared to be pushing their daughter “into an adult world” of social media and the commercialization of 1’s appearance. One number said that Carmen was made as much as look much older than 11.
“We are becoming a nation of Kardashians. Sad,” one person said. “This is so wrong on so many levels. Do better mom,” one other person said.
And like The Onion article, someone reminded Hilaria Baldwin of her big scandal: “Are there any recipes with…how do you say, cucumbers?”
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