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Hilaria Baldwin is still dealing with backlash for posing as a Latina girl for years and utilizing a faux Spanish accent amid her marriage to Alec Baldwin.

Since being uncovered in 2020 for pretending to be of Spanish descent, Hilaria has tried to come back from the public humiliation by presenting her more genuine self. For those who are only acquainted with Hilaria from watching Season 34 of Dancing with the Stars and are unaware of her offensive id scandal, let’s delve into who she claimed she was before being uncovered.

Hilaria was born Hillary Lynn Hayward-Thomas, but she started utilizing the identify Hilaria at some level when she was a yoga instructor in New York City before marrying the 30 Rock alum. Also, before Alec pushed her to be part of DWTS.

She was a yoga instructor before she met and married Alec in 2012. However, after they obtained married and began their household, she went on to place herself as a lifestyle guru and mother podcaster.

Wanting to make herself distinctive and be seen as different as a rising media persona, she started utilizing an vague Spanish accent and even bragged about her trumped-up Spanish heritage.

Hilaria’s invented Spanish bubble was busted in late 2020 after web sleuths found she truly grew up in Massachusetts and had come from a household with strong roots in New England and the Midwest.

Before the premiere of DWTS, she told USA Today, “Everybody these days has their critics, whether they’re in the spotlight or not. I’ve learned in my 40s that if you go through life trying to prove things to people, then you’re missing the point and you’re missing being present.”

Despite being who she truly is now, skeptics are still unsure if she’s truly down with pretending to be Spanish.

While talking with Good Morning America about her time on DWTS and moving her kids to Los Angeles during filming, many couldn’t help but notice she slipped back into a Spanish accent, which was already revealed to be fake.

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The clip, which came to light on TikTok and Instagram, showed her switching between the fake accent and her natural American one, and viewers quickly criticized her for using it.

“Why the accent is my only question,” one individual questioned on Instagram.

“The accent, Please stop, She is from Massachusetts,” another slammed.

“Still trying to sound hispanic@ Stop it already,” a third added.

Meanwhile, on TikTok, others famous that her DWTS dance companion, Gleb Savchenko, who stood next to her during the interview, used a myriad of facial expressions that appeared to show he wasn’t fond of her.

“Gleb is FIGHTING to not laugh at her slipping back and forth into the accent,” one individual wrote.

“Gleb is going on vacation in his mind lmao,” another penned.