Hilaria Baldwin Biography

Hilaria Baldwin is an American yoga instructor, entrepreneur, podcaster, and author. She was the co-founder of a chain of New York-based yoga studios called Yoga Vida and has released an exercise DVD and a wellness-focused book.

Hilaria Baldwin Education

She attended the Cambridge School of Weston, a private co-educational high school in Weston, Massachusetts. She later started college at age 19 at New York University, where she was on the ballroom dance team.

Hilaria Baldwin Career

Baldwin is a yoga instructor, entrepreneur, podcaster as well as author who started practicing yoga around age 20. While attending New York University, she opened the yoga studio Yoga Vida in 2009 along with Michael “Mike” Patton in the West Village of New York City, which eventually opened three other locations in the Noho, DUMBO, and Tribeca neighborhoods. The Tribeca Citizen wrote in 2016 that their location had a range of classes. In 2013, Spencer Wolff, a former student in one of her classes, sued Baldwin in Manhattan Supreme Court for an injury he allegedly sustained in the class. The lawsuit was settled a year later, with Wolff signing a non-disclosure agreement.

In 2012, after marrying Alec, Baldwin became a lifestyle correspondent for the entertainment show Extra. The New York Times wrote that Baldwin got the position because Alec was a friend of Steve Sunshine, a producer for the show. In 2014, she shared a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment News Program with her Extra colleagues. She periodically worked with Extra in that role through 2014.

Hilaria Baldwin Age

Baldwin was born on January 6, 1984, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. She is therefore 38 years old as of 2022.

Hilaria Baldwin Height

Baldwin stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.

Hilaria Baldwin Family

Baldwin was born to her mother Kathryn Hayward and her father David Thomas Jr. She has a brother named Jeremy Hayward-Thomas. Baldwin also claims that she was raised in a Spanish-speaking household and traveled to Spain annually.

Hilaria Baldwin Mother

Her mother Kathryn Hayward grew up in Massachusetts and spent her career practicing medicine there. Additionally, she was an associate physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School before retiring from both positions in 2012.

Hilaria Baldwin Father

Baldwin’s father David Thomas Jr. was an attorney with an undergraduate degree in Spanish literature from Haverford College and a law degree from Georgetown University. David and Kathryn founded International Integrators, an integrative health organization, after moving to Spain and settling in Mallorca in 2011, not long before their daughter married Alec Baldwin.

Hilaria Baldwin Grandparents

Baldwin’s paternal grandfather was David L. Thomas Sr. an American with roots in the country that pre-dated the American Revolution. Her paternal grandmother Mary Lou (Artman) Thomas was from Nebraska. Additionally, her paternal grandfather, a native of Ames, Iowa, traveled extensively to Argentina as an auditor for General Electric and at one point lived there. He also exposed his children to world cultures and raised them to be proficient in Spanish.

Hilaria Baldwin Husband(Alec Baldwin)

Baldwin started dating Alec Baldwin American actor sometime around August 2011. They moved from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village that August. The couple became engaged in April 2012 and married on June 30, 2012, in a Catholic ceremony at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City. Additionally, their wedding bands, had Somos un Buen Equipo engraved in Spanish inscribed on the inside.

Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin born on April 3, 1958, is an American actor, film producer, comedian as well as a political activist. He is also the eldest of the four actor brothers in the Baldwin family. Baldwin first gained recognition by appearing on the sixth and seventh seasons of the CBS primetime soap opera Knots Landing.

Alec Baldwin Previous marriages and relationships

Alec Baldwin met his first wife Kim Basinger in May 1990 when they played lovers in the film The Marrying Man. They married on August 19, 1993, and had a daughter, Ireland (born October 23, 1995). They separated on December 5, 2000, and divorced on September 3, 2002. Baldwin also called the attorneys in the case opportunists and characterized Basinger’s psychologists as part of the divorce industry. Baldwin wrote that he spent over a million dollars, and has had to put time aside from his career. He also had to travel extensively, and needed to find a house in California (he lived in New York), so that he could stay in his daughter’s life. In 2011 Alec started dating Hilaria and got married to her on June 30, 2012.

Alec Baldwin Radio and Podcasts

Baldwin became the host of The New York Philharmonic This Week on January 12, 2009, the nationally syndicated radio series of the New York Philharmonic. He has also recorded two nationally distributed public service radio announcements on behalf of the Save the Manatee Club. On October 24, 2011, WNYC public radio released the first episode of Baldwin’s podcast Here’s the Thing, a series of interviews with public figures including artists, policy-makers, and performers. The first two episodes featured actor Michael Douglas and political consultant Ed Rollins.

Between 2011 and 2020, Baldwin completed more than 150 interviews, with guests who included musician Wynton Marsalis, filmmaker Edward Norton, comedian David Letterman, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and pianist Lang Lang among many others. Here’s the Thing was developed for Alec Baldwin by Lu Olkowski, Trey Kay, Kathy Russo, and Emily Botein.

Alec Baldwin Awards and Recognitions

Baldwin has also received a number of awards and nominations throughout his career for stage, television, and film roles. He has also been nominated for the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and Tony Award and has received three Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and eight Screen Actors Guild Awards. On May 12, 2010, Baldwin gave a commencement address at New York University and was awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree, honoris causa. Additionally, he was named Esteemed Faculty by Stony Brook University after teaching a master’s class in acting at Stony Brook Southampton.

Hilaria Baldwin Children

Baldwin and Alec have six children together: daughter Carmen Gabriela (born August 23, 2013). Sons Rafael Thomas (born June 17, 2015)and  Leonardo Angel Charles (born September 12, 2016), Romeo Alejandro David (born May 17, 2018), and Eduardo Pau Lucas (born September 8, 2020). They also have a daughter María Lucía Victoria (born February 25, 2021, via surrogate). She is also stepmother to Ireland Baldwin, daughter of Alec’s from a previous marriage to American actress Kim Basinger.

Hilaria Baldwin Allegations of Cultural appropriation

In December 2020, a Twitter user accused Baldwin of impersonating a Spanish person and posted a number of video clips of Baldwin speaking with a contrived Spanish accent. This included a clip from the Today Show in which Baldwin seemingly forgot the English word for cucumber. The tweets prompted a number of news articles and accusations of cultural appropriation since at other times she was heard speaking American-accented English. Her agency’s website listed her birthplace as Mallorca rather than Boston.  Commentators noted that Baldwin is often misidentified as either Mallorcan, Spanish, or Latina, encouraging positive press by Hispanic media such as the Spanish-language celebrity gossip magazine ¡Hola!.