{"id":145379,"date":"2020-12-31T20:35:58","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T17:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hilaria-baldwin-always-wanted-to-be-spanish-ex-dance-partner\/"},"modified":"2020-12-31T20:35:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T17:35:58","slug":"hilaria-baldwin-always-wanted-to-be-spanish-ex-dance-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hilaria-baldwin-always-wanted-to-be-spanish-ex-dance-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hilaria Baldwin always wanted to be Spanish: ex-dance partner"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hilaria Baldwin always wanted to be Spanish: ex-dance partner<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Hilaria Baldwin was always a Spanish-wannabe \u2014 but she really put her foot in her mouth when she changed her name from Hillary, her old dance partner says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole \u2018Hilaria\u2019 thing is hilarious to me,\u201d Alexander Rechits, who competitively danced with the now-embattled yoga-bending celeb from 2006 to 2009, told the New York Times. <\/a><\/p>\n

Rechits, who knew the 36-year-old American wife of actor Alec Baldwin by her given name, Hillary Hayward-Thomas, said it was clear even then that she wanted to portray herself as something she wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand why she did it,\u201d Rechits said in an interview published Wednesday, adding that he considered Hilaria sweet and talented.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was always her desire to be considered Spanish,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

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Hilaria Baldwin<\/span>Patrick McMullan via Getty Image<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cShe had roots in Spain, her brother lived there, she visited there a lot,\u2019\u2019 he said, referring to the fact that Hilaria\u2019s parents now live in Mallorca and her family would travel<\/a> to Spain when she was a child.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Hillary is a very good strong name, so why would you change that when you were born here and you weren\u2019t born in Spain?\u201d said the Belarus native.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a lot of nicknames in Russian. But I\u2019m still Alexander everywhere I go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hilaria, who has no Spanish ancestry, has been under fire for allegedly misrepresenting herself as Spanish \u2014 repeatedly publicly referring to Spain as her \u201chome,\u201d adopting a bad thick Spanish accent at times and failing to correct numerous publications and even one of her official web bios that falsely said she was born on Mallorca.<\/p>\n

For her wedding to Alec in 2012, she wore a traditional white Spanish mantilla veil and waved a flamenco fan at her groom at an altar in St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Manhattan, while the pair traded rings inscribed in Spanish and danced to Puerto Rican crooner Luis Miguel.<\/p>\n

The lifestyle influencer was forced to take to social media<\/a> over the weekend to acknowledge she is \u201ca white girl\u201d<\/a> who was born in Boston, originally named Hillary and went to high school in Massachusetts.\n <\/div>\n