Amy Schumer talks about Hilaria Baldwin in Spanish

Amy Schumer feels bad for Hilaria Baldwin and for the role she inadvertently played in launching the controversy that may have derailed Baldwin’s reputation for “authenticity” and her flourishing career as an influencer, dispensing advice on parenting, wellness and yoga.

The controversy over Hilaria Baldwin consumed the internet in early 2021 and focused on Alec Baldwin’s wife apparently posing as a glamorous immigrant from Spain.

In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight, Schumer agrees with many that the controversy was “so crazy” and “entertaining”, especially after a bleak and pandemic-filled 2020 year and just before the news cycle was consumed by the insurgency at the US Capitol.

“I think Hilaria is probably the only person to cheer for the insurgency on Capitol Hill, because she distracted (people) from (her scandal),” the actress joked.

In her comments, Schumer tried to draw a fine line between offering sympathy to someone humiliated in a public scandal and humorously calling Hilaria Baldwin over a situation many say she inflicted on herself.

Hilaria Baldwin, born Hillary Hayward-Thomas in Boston, affected a Spanish accent during television or podcast appearances. The mother of five young children also did not object when official biographies or cover articles in Spanish-language publications stated that she was born in Spain or that Spanish was her “mother” language.

“She’s amazing and I wish her and her family the best,” Schumer told Entertainment Tonight. “I hope she can visit Spain as much as she wants.”

“Look, she’s a mom,” Schumer continued. “She has a million and a half children, and it’s really difficult. So I don’t want them to have a bad time. But also, you can’t just pretend you’re from Spain.

Questions about Hilaria Baldwins’ true legacy had been simmering for years in different corners of the internet. But Schumer has pushed questions into the mainstream after mocking one of Hilaria Baldwin’s photos where she is just wearing lingerie, while holding one of her children or doing a complicated yoga move.

The former ballroom dancer, 37, said she wanted to show her pride in her post-baby body. She posed for a photo, holding her new son and wearing just a bra and panties, which showed an enviably flat stomach. Schumer reposted the image on her Instagram with a cheeky caption, suggesting it was her in the photo.

Hilaria Baldwin challenged Schumer and others for making fun of her photo and took to Instagram with a video post, calling people out for “body shame.”

People watching Hilaria Baldwin’s video noticed that her usual Spanish accent was missing and that’s when people raised questions about her legacy, with Twitter and Instagram catchers uncovering information on how where she grew up in Boston and her family dates back several generations to the United States. States.

Videos also began to circulate, showing Hilaria Baldwin saying in interviews that she had not moved to the United States until she was 19 to attend college, but her parents did withdraw on the island of Mallorca only in 2011, when she was 27 years old. Hilaria also spoke about the “35 or 40 family members who came from Spain” when she married Baldwin in 2012, and she forgot the English word “cucumber” on a cooking show “Today”.

As Hilaria Baldwin was accused of cultural appropriation, questions also arose as to what Alec Baldwin knew about his wife’s true legacy. He told David Letterman in 2013 that his wife was “from Spain,” and he jokingly imitated her Spanish accent.

In an interview with the New York Times, Hilaria Baldwin said she never claimed to be from Spain. She said she divided her time, when growing up, between the United States and Spain, although she did not provide any details about where she lived at that time. She also suggested that she had spent so much time in Spain that she naturally developed an accent and sometimes forgets words as she slips between Spanish and English.