Hilaria Baldwin has suggested that she is a "fluid" multi-cultural person following her Spanish heritage controversy.
In a post made on Instagram on Thursday, July 8, the 37-year-old wife of actor Alec Baldwin shared an image of herself and her eldest daughter Carmen with her 907,000 followers on the platform.
Baldwin addressed last year's controversy – in which a Twitter thread claimed that the yoga instructor was misleading others as to her true nationality by pretending to be Spanish – in the post.
Writing in the above Instagram post's caption, Baldwin stated: "When you are multi, it can feel hard to belong. You are constantly going back and forth, trying to be more this or more that.
"You feel you have to explain why you are the way you are, trying to fit into a world of labels when there might not be one that perfectly defines you."
She continued: "You will never quite fit in because the other parts of you shape and influence all your parts. Nothing inside you can truly exist in a segregated environment.
"It's not a light switch that cleanly switches on &off-more of a sliding dial that simply shifts through a rainbow of colors."
She added: "We need to normalize the fact that we are all unique-our culture, languages, sexual orientations, religions, political beliefs are ALLOWED TO BE FLUID. No two of us are completely alike. [sic]"
Baldwin came under heavy scrutiny in late December 2020 after it emerged that she was in the US to American parents.
At the time, a number of clips resurfaced on social media speaking with a Spanish accent and appearing to forget the English word for cucumber during a 2015 Today appearance.
Critics also brought up instances where Baldwin talked about "incorporating Latin culture" into her childrearing and was referred to as being "Spanish-born" or "Spanish-American" in a number of interviews.
She responded to the backlash in a video shared on Instagram in December, stating: "I'm born in Boston, and then I spent some of my childhood in Boston, some of my childhood in Spain. There was, like, a lot of back-and-forths my entire life.
"I've seen some things about, like, 'She's a white girl.' Yes, I am a white girl. I am a white girl. Let's be very clear that Europe, you know, has a lot of white people in there.
"And my family is white. Ethnically I'm a mix of many, many, many things. Culturally I grew up with the two cultures. So it's really as simple as that."
