Hilaria Baldwin

Early life Hillary Lynn Hayward-Thomas was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 6, 1984, to Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas Jr. She is of English, French-Canadian, German, Irish, and Slovak descent. She has stated that she has been a vegetarian since age five. after moving to Spain and settling in Mallorca in 2011, not long before their daughter married Alec Baldwin. She has a brother named Jeremy Hayward-Thomas.

Hayward-Thomas's paternal grandfather was David Lloyd Thomas Sr. (1927/1928–2020 ), Thomas Sr. was a native of Ames, Iowa and traveled extensively to Argentina as an auditor for General Electric and at one point lived there. He exposed his children to world cultures and raised them to be proficient in Spanish. She started college at age 19 at New York University, where she was on the ballroom dance team.

Career Hayward-Thomas started practicing yoga at around age 20. After 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, including "pre- and post-natal, restorative, and heated by infrared light". In 2013, Spencer Wolff, a former student in one of her classes, sued her 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, Hilaria Baldwin became a lifestyle correspondent for the entertainment show Extra. The New York Times wrote that Baldwin obtained that position because Alec was a friend of Steve Sunshine, a producer for the show. She periodically worked with Extra in that role through 2014. In June 2014, El País described Baldwin as the "Gwyneth Paltrow" of New York City in reference to being a working wealthy mother.

Baldwin wrote the book The Living Clearly Method, which was released December 2016. When the book released, Baldwin started an associated website under the same name to promote it.

In 2017, Baldwin was awarded the Wellness Foundation's Illumination Award at that organization's summer benefit in the Hamptons.

In 2018, Baldwin partnered with podcaster Daphne Oz to create Mom Brain, a motherhood-focused podcast. Refinery29 described it as "a deep-dive into every single corner of motherhood, ranging from the serious moments to the hilarious ones, and everything in between". The two hosts went on Rachael Ray in November 2018 to talk about the project, followed by the Today show in December of that year. As of May 2021, Baldwin had not recorded any more episodes since the start of the allegations of cultural appropriation in December 2020. Baldwin later launched two other podcasts, What’s One More? with husband Alec Baldwin and Witches Anonymous with jewelry designer Michelle Campbell.

In February 2019, Baldwin and her husband spoke to a United Nations panel about food choices and a sustainable planet at the launch of the EAT-Lancet Commission on Food, Health and Planet initiative. Baldwin was identified as a "wellness expert" on the panel.

Baldwin has been on the cover of multiple magazines, the most notable of which include Hello!, Fit Pregnancy, ¡Hola!, Parents; and Belgium's Télépro.

In September 2025, Baldwin was announced as a contestant on season 34 of Dancing with the Stars; she was paired with professional dancer Gleb Savchenko. Some commentators pointed out that her casting appeared to be in violation of the show's longstanding rule prohibiting contestants with former professional ballroom dancing experience; in response, Baldwin denied that her experience as a competitive ballroom dancer during college would qualify. She was the fourth contestant eliminated, and later blamed her early exit on "[being] bullied off the show" in reference to the controversy caused by her prior dancing experience.

Personal life

In February 2011, Hilaria Thomas met Alec Baldwin at Sarma Melngailis's New York restaurant Pure Food and Wine. Around August that year, the two began dating. They moved from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village that August. The couple became engaged in April 2012, The Spanish phrase somos un buen equipo is engraved on the inside of their wedding bands. The couple has seven children together. Baldwin is also stepmother to Ireland Baldwin, Alec's daughter from his previous marriage to American actress Kim Basinger.

Baldwin has said that she suffered from anorexia nervosa and bulimia in her high school years and early twenties. In her book, Baldwin recounted that she suffered health issues and was miserable; feeling that way motivated her future career as a healthy lifestyle advocate. Baldwin stated she started getting better when she started "thinking of weight and health separately". Baldwin is a pescetarian.

Ancestry and identity Baldwin is of English, French-Canadian, German, Irish, and Slovak descent. The tweets prompted accusations in various media publications of Baldwin's cultural appropriation, since at other times she has been recorded speaking American-accented English. Her talent agent's website listed her birthplace as Mallorca rather than Boston. Baldwin affirmed mistaken statements that she was "half-Spanish" while speaking at the United Nations, and spoke "as if she has a Spaniard's familiarity with that country's food culture". Baldwin responded that she identifies as white, and her ethnic background includes "many, many, many things". Baldwin claims that she was raised in a Spanish-speaking household. She has stated that she began to use the name Hilaria "as she got older". Baldwin also claimed her inability to remember the word "cucumber" resulted from stage fright during one of her first television appearances, and that she is bilingual and her accent comes and goes depending on stress and other factors.

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