Hilaria Baldwin Explains Why Her Accent Has Changed Over the Years, Defends Herself From Hate
Hilaria Baldwin is offering an explanation regarding the controversy surrounding the authenticity of her Spanish origins.
During the Sunday (March 16) episode of The Baldwins, the 41-year-old fitness instructor said that her seemingly changing accent is caused by pressure to adapt to society’s norms.
“Growing up in a way where you have multiple cultural influences on you means that you’re never going to be able to fit in. You can try. You can chameleon. You know, people who code-switch we’re very good at chameleoning… and you don’t even think you’re not even thinking about it. It’s just normal. It’s just natural,” she said.
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“They say that it’s like communication, if you ever talk to a really old person who cannot hear, and I’m gonna emphasize, I’m gonna speak slower. And you’re not even really thinking about it. You just start to do it. You know what it’s called? Code-switching… I had to learn about it because the whole world was mean to me, and so I had to learn it. It’s code-switching,” she added.
Hilaria also reflected on how the controversy affected her.
“Being in, the spotlight, as people like to call it. People say, ‘Oh, don’t you get used to it?’ No, you don’t get used to it. You never get used to people being mean. But you take a deep breath, and I think you learn to distance yourself from it, and so, you know, you just try turning down the volume in my head a bit… and I’m not gonna take it personally,” she said.
In December 2020, Hilaria, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts under the name Hilary, faced questions surrounding her roots and seeming inconsistencies in her family’s origins regarding whether she is actually Spanish.
Hilaria also addressed the situation in the premiere episode of The Baldwins last month.