Hilaria Baldwin is telling fans about her role as a stepmother to Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger’s daughter.
Baldwin, 35, opened up about how her involvement in Ireland Baldwin’s life shaped her relationship with Alec, 61. “I rarely address being a stepmom, but it is part of our family,” she wrote on social media. “I always want to deal with it with such care.”
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“So often you hear horror stories about evil stepparents and I wanted to make sure I did right by the family I was stepping into when I married Alec,” Baldwin continued. “I love my stepdaughter as much as I love my biological children and I become a mommy lioness when I see comments that insinuate otherwise.”
“Having a stepchild is a delicate matter. Especially one who is grown. I think my relationship with her has been so successful because I never tried to step in as her mommy,” she expressed. “She has a good mother, who I have tremendous respect for…and I put myself in Kim’s shoes: if my children ever had a stepmother, I’d want her to let me be number one.”
Baldwin made it clear to her now-husband that Ireland must be okay with their relationship. “When I met Ireland, I said to Alec, ‘If she is not ok with our relationship, I cannot go further,’” Baldwin shared. “Family is first and she needed to be ok with me. We have never had a fight or a bad moment. Nor have I with her mother.”
“I don’t ever expect her to be anyone other than herself. As someone who loves her, my job was not to step in and take over… but rather respect what had been for the first 15 years of her life and then become a part of that, in a way that works for everyone,” Baldwin shared. “So yes, sometimes my language about my biological children does not include her.”
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“Because I did not birth her and I never want to disrespect the fact that she has a wonderful mother,” she concluded. “But this will never take away from how much I love her, need her in my life, and think that she is one of the best things that has ever happened to me.”
Hilaria and Alec tied the knot in 2012 and share four other children together: Carmen Gabriela, 5, Rafael Thomas, 3, Leonardo Angel Charles, 2, and Romeo Alejandro David, 11 months.
