Hilaria Baldwin

Baldwin was born Hillary Lynn Hayward-Thomas on January 6, 1984 in Boston, Massachusetts to Dr. Kathryn Hayward and David Thomas Jr.[3][4][5] Her mother grew up in Massachusetts and spent her career practicing medicine there; 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.[6] Her father was an attorney with an undergraduate degree in Spanish literature from Haverford College and a law degree from Georgetown University; together the couple founded International Integrators, an integrative health organization,[7][8][9] after moving to Mallorca, Spain in 2011, not long before Hillary married Alec Baldwin.[10] She is of English, Irish, French Canadian, German, and Slovak descent.[3] Her paternal grandfather was David L. Thomas, Sr. (1927/1928–2020),[11] an "American with roots in the country that pre-dated the American Revolution", and her paternal grandmother Mary Lou (Artman) Thomas was from Nebraska.[6][11] Her grandfather, a native of Ames, Iowa, travelled extensively to Argentina as an auditor for General Electric and at one point lived there.[11][12] He exposed his children to world cultures and raised them to be proficient in Spanish.[11][12] She has a brother named Jeremy Hayward-Thomas.[13]

Baldwin reports that she was raised in a Spanish-speaking household and travelled to Spain annually.[14] She attended the Cambridge School of Weston, a private coeducational high school in Weston, Massachusetts.[13] Baldwin later attended college at New York University.[15] While attending NYU, she was on the ballroom dance team.[16]

Baldwin stated she started yoga around age 20.[17] Shortly after graduating from New York University,[18] Baldwin 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[19][20] in the Noho, DUMBO, and Tribeca neighborhoods.[21] 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."[22] 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.[23][24]

In October 2013, Baldwin released an exercise DVD titled @ Home with Hilaria Baldwin: Fit Mommy-to-Be Prenatal Yoga. Alec appears during a five minute "bonus section" on the DVD; Us Weekly stated "Though the bonus section lasts only 5 minutes, it’s chock-full of classic Alec looks, familiar to anyone who’s seen his hilarious Saturday Night Live sketches."[25] People gave the DVD a positive review, writing Baldwin was a "glowing mom-to-be".[26] In June 2014, El País described Baldwin as the "Gwyneth Paltrow" of New York City in reference to being a working wealthy mother.[27]

Baldwin wrote the book The Living Clearly Method, which was released December 2016. Vanity Fair stated "In her one-on-one work with students to her life with Alec all the way up to publishing the book, she's created a space where making the most out of any situation is the default modus operandi."[28] AM New York Metro stated Baldwin "dives into her own struggles with eating disorders, stress and injury, and it outlines five principles she's developed, teaches and lives by: perspective, breathing, grounding, balance and letting go. The book also features yoga sequences and healthy recipes geared toward busybodies like herself".[29] When The Living Clearly Method released, Baldwin started an associated website under the same name to promote the book.[30]

Hilaria with husband Alec Baldwin on September 18, 2011, at the Tony Bennett Birthday Gala at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City.

In 2017, Baldwin was awarded the Wellness Foundation's Illumination Award at that organization's summer benefit in the Hamptons, where she signed copies of her book.[31]

In 2018, Baldwin partnered with podcaster Daphne Oz to create Mom Brain, a motherhood-focused podcast. Refinery 29 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".[32] The two hosts went on the Today show in December 2018 to talk about the project,[33] followed by The Rachael Ray Show in November of that year.[34]

Baldwin has been on the cover of multiple magazines, including Hello! for July 2012 (with Alec);[35] Mini Magazine for Spring 2013;[36] Hello! for September 2013 (with Alec);[37] Beach for Winter 2013;[38] The Bump for January 2014;[39] Fit Pregnancy for July 2016;[40] Hola! for December 2016 (with Alec);[41] WAG for April 2017;[42] Parents for May 2017;[43] Beach for May 2018;[44] Hola! for October 2018 (with Alec);[45] New York Family for May 2019;[46] Westchester Family for August 2019;[47] and Belgium's Télépro for May 2020.[48]

By August 2011, Hilaria began dating Alec Baldwin.[49] They moved from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village that August.[50] The couple became engaged in April 2012[49] and married on June 30, 2012, in a Catholic ceremony at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in New York City.[51] On their wedding bands they had 'Somos un buen equipo', in Spanish (We're a great team)[52] inscribed on the inside.[53] The couple have five children together, daughter Carmen Gabriela (born August 23, 2013),[54] and sons Rafael Thomas (born June 17, 2015),[55] Leonardo Angel Charles (born September 12, 2016),[56] Romeo Alejandro David (born May 17, 2018)[57] and Eduardo Pau Lucas (born September 8, 2020).[58] She additionally suffered two miscarriages.[59]

Baldwin struggled with anorexia nervosa and bulimia in her high school years and early twenties.[60] In her book, Baldwin recounted, "By the time I was 20 years old, my 5-foot-3 frame was at least 20 lbs. under a healthy weight. My nails were brittle, my hair was falling out, my period was MIA, and my energy had tanked. I was miserable and desperate to feel better."[61] Baldwin stated she started getting better when she started "thinking of weight and health separately".[62]

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