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Alec Baldwin and Hilaria Baldwin’s Daughter Carmen Pokes Fun at Her Parents’ 26-Year Age Gap
Hilaria Baldwin and Alec Baldwin’s relationship isn’t all that complicated.
In fact, the wellness guru revealed the simple secrets to her and the It’s Complicated star’s successful marriage, including how the couple finds humor in their 26-year age difference.
“Take a 27-year-old yoga instructor married to a rich and famous older man—it sounds ridiculous,” Hilaria told the Daily Mail in an interview published May 29. “It sounds like a bad SNL sketch.”
“It worked out luckily, but we poke fun at each other in our family all the time,” she added. “I think people expect that Alec wanted somebody he could boss around, and we’re on the same level together.”
As for Alec, he knew when the pair first connected that he’d met a “very special person.”
“When I met her, she was unknown; she wasn’t a famous person,” the Beetlejuice actor explained. “She was a hard worker and I really admired that. She’s beautiful beyond measure, inside and out.”
But when it comes to their differences, Hilaria, 42, and Alec, 68, have found ways to keep the peace.
“We just let each other be,” the yoga teacher explained, “and I think that’s one of the reasons our relationship has gone on as long as it has, because we are polar opposites and so different.”
As for how they keep the spark alive?
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“We’ve been traveling a lot for work recently but we try to have a lot of date nights,” Hilaria said, which she noted “usually involves dinner.”
“He loves a good dinner,” she added. “We either go out or I cook and we usually end up chatting and catching each other up on our seven kids and our projects.”
But since tying the knot in 2012, Hilaria and Alec—who share kids Carmen, 12, Rafael, 10, Leonardo, 9, Romeo, 8, Eduardo, 5, Maria Lucia, 5, and Ilaria, 3, together—have faced their fair share of challenges.
“There’s been so much chaos in our lives,” Hilaria explained, “so much of it wonderful, some horrible things but we’ve managed to figure it out.”
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And Alec—who also shares daughter Ireland, 30, with ex-wife Kim Basinger—wouldn’t have it any other way.
“For me, I don’t want to leave my home anymore,” he told the outlet, despite confessing that he also loves “to go to work.”
As he put it, “I want to stay home and do nothing and be with the kids.”
For a look back at Hilaria and Alec’s road to romance, read on…
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Summer Lovin'
Alec Baldwin told the New York Times he gave his future wife, then Hilaria Thomas, his number upon meeting her at Pure Food and Wine in New York in February 2011. The two played phone tag until they finally arranged a time to meet for dinner.
That August they enjoyed their first US Open together, one of Alec's favorite events.
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Black Tie Date Night
Alec looked into his future and saw Hilaria at the 10th Annual Elton John AIDS Foundation's "An Enduring Vision" benefit at Cipriani Wall Street in October 2011. They moved in together the following month.
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Swept Away
Hilaria accompanied Alec to the Cannes Film Festival in 2012. "I've dated a lot of people since my divorce, and have thought a lot about what I wanted and what I wanted to do," he said. "I thought about it too much, I suppose. I wasn't really ready to take that chance and to act until I met Hilaria."
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He Put a Ring On It!
In April 2012, Alec's rep confirmed to E! News that he and Hilaria were engaged.
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Daughter-Approved!
Hilaria and Ireland Baldwin frequently tweet about their friendship. Ireland joked on the social networking site she was going to serve as a "flower girl" in the wedding, but actually was a bridesmaid.
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They Do!
On June 30, 2012, the happy couple tied the knot in front of family and friends at the Basilica of St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Manhattan. The bride wore a silk magnolia trumpet Amsale gown and the groom donned a tux from Tom Ford.
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Full House
The couple are now parents of seven, welcoming Carmen Gabriela (Aug. 23, 2013), Rafael Thomas (June 17, 2015), Leonardo Ángel Charles (Sept. 12, 2016), Romeo Alejandro David (May 17, 2018), Eduardo "Edu" Pao Lucas (Sept. 8, 2020), María Lucía Victoria (Feb. 25, 2021, via surrogate) and Ilaria Catalina Irena (Sept. 22, 2022).
The whole family will be starring on TLC's The Baldwins, premiering Feb. 23, 2025.
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