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The Baldwins: Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Share Glimpse Into Chaotic Home Life With 8 Kids
Hilaria Baldwin is getting candid about her thoughts on death.
She recently opened up about how she takes her kids to cemeteries as a learning experience.
"I bring my kids to cemeteries a lot," she told Oliver Hudson on the June 16 episode of the Sibling Revelry podcast. "We spend time in cemeteries and you know, everything from like the history of it, and just also acknowledging, this is part of life."
She added that she also wants her and husband Alec Baldwin’s children—Carmen, 11, Rafael, 10 Leonardo, 8, Romeo, 7, Eduardo, 4, María Lucía, 4, and Ilaria, 2—to have an understanding of what it means to die when she passes.
"There's a tremendous amount of peace there as well," she explained, "not being afraid, not of death, but of people who have died."
She added, "I don't want anyone to be afraid of me when I die. So I try to have that kind of connection with them."
And death is something Hilaria has though about a lot since becoming a mom, especially. As she noted, "Once you become a parent, I think that how fragile life can be, it comes into my fears all the time."
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Indeed, a lot has changed since Hilaria became a parent. When the couple met in 2011, Alec—who is also dad to Irelyn, now 29, with ex-wife Kim Basinger—said they never could have expected all that was to come.
“I always joke with her and say, ‘You know where I should be right now, don’t you? We should be on Geffen’s yacht, drinking a cappuccino and reading a book, and having dinner with Spielberg or whatever,’” Alec told People in January. Despite the chaos, he noted, “I wouldn’t change anything."
For more on Alec and Hilaria's love story, 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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