Hilaria and Alec Baldwin have welcomed a sixth child, just six months after the yoga guru gave birth to her fifth baby Edu following two heartbreaking miscarriages.
The 37-year-old mother sparked a flurry of interest and speculation on Monday when she shared an image of herself cradling a newborn baby, alongside the couple’s five other children, Edu, Romeo,Leonardo, Rafael, and Carmen.
Hilaria gave little away about the identity of the baby, simply captioning the post ‘7’ and adding a heart emoji, however a source close to the Boston-born yoga guru confirmed to People that she and Alec are now parents to six babies.
Expanded brood? Hilaria and Alec Baldwin have welcomed a sixth child it has been claimed – just after the yoga guru shared an image of herself cradling a newborn with her five other kids
Newcomer: The 37-year-old, who gave birth to her fifth child Edu in September, is seen holding a tiny baby in her arms, however she shared little information about the child’s identity
Hint: Hilaria simply captioned the image ‘7’, referencing herself and the six children pictured, and revealed that the snap was taken by her husband Alec, 62
Hilaria welcomed her fifth child, son Eduardo in September 2020, after suffering two devastating miscarriages; it is not known whether her sixth child – whose name has not yet been shared – was adopted or born via a surrogate.
A spokesperson for the yoga guru refused repeated requests for comment on the new addition, instead referring DailyMail.com back to Hilaria’s Instagram post.
In the image, which was taken by SNL star Alec, 62, shows Hilaria lying in bed surrounded by her children – however while the couple’s five known kids are all seen, the proud mother is also seen cradling another baby in her arm.
The infant, whose identity is not known, is curled up against Hilaria’s stomach and wearing a pale pink outfit; the tiny infant is nestled up alongside six-month-old Edu, who is almost twice the size of the newborn.
In a teasing post shared on her Instagram Stories, the proud mom also asked her followers to count ‘how many babies’ they could see in the photo, giving them the option of choosing ‘5’ or ‘6’.
The latest addition to the brood is Alec and Hilaria’s sixth child together – however the SNL star also has another daughter, 25-year-old model Ireland, with his ex-wife Kim Basinger.
Beyond the social media posts, neither Alec or Hilaria have commented on the reports of their new arrival – which comes less than two years after the yoga guru suffered the first of two miscarriages.
She shared her devastating news in April 2019, when she took to social media to document her miscarriage in a series of very candid photos and videos, the first of which showed her posing in her underwear, alongside a caption which read: ‘I want to share with you that I am most likely experiencing a miscarriage.’
Hilaria went on to document subsequent doctors’ appointments, and even shared selfies from her D&C procedure.
In November of that same year, she revealed that she’d had a second miscarriage, four months into her pregnancy, once again sharing the news on Instagram alongside an image of herself and daughter Carmen.
‘We are very sad to share that today we learned that our baby passed away at 4 months,’ she wrote. ‘We also want you to know that even though we are not ok right now, we will be. We are so lucky with our 4 healthy babies – and we will never lose sight of this.
Family: Hilaria and Alec, pictured with their five children, Edu, Romeo, Leonardo, Rafael, and Carmen, have made no comment about the baby pictured in Hilaria’s latest post
Hint hint: Posting the image on her Instagram Stories, Hilaria teased followers by asking them to reveal ‘how many babies they see’
‘I’m really devastated right now… I was not expecting this when I went to my scan today. I don’t know what else to say.’
The couple then announced that they were expecting their fifth child in April 2020, however the arrival of a sixth baby is not something that either have addressed publicly, although Hilaria stated in November of last year that it ‘felt very much’ like they were ‘done’ expanding their family.
‘It very much feels like we’re done,’ she told People one month after giving birth to Edu when asked if she was hoping to have more children.
However the wellness expert admitted that she would never say never, joking that she had thought she was ‘done’ in the past – only for the couple to decide that they wanted to expand their family further.
‘Everybody’s asking me this question,’ she continued. ‘I don’t know. I’ve said in the past that I was done when I wasn’t done.
‘I think, right now, I’m so tired. And I feel, just with COVID, it’s just insanity. Right now, during times of COVID, it very much feels like we’re done.’
She added that her children have all grown accustomed to ‘new siblings coming in’, revealing that they were already asking her ‘when the next one is going to come’.
But while Hilaria has previously been very open about her motherhood journey – documenting her pregnancy on Instagram, and sharing intimate details about both of her miscarriages – both she and Alec have kept the news of their youngest arrival very much under wraps.
Hilaria has only made a return to regularly posting on social media in recent weeks, after issuing an apology for faking her Spanish heritage following weeks of furious controversy over the scandal.
The influencer, whose real name is Hillary Hayward-Thomas, finally said ‘sorry’ for the saga in a post shared to her Instagram account on February 5 – six weeks after a Twitter thread about her faux European background went viral.
Quiet: In the past, Hilaria (pictured while pregnant with Edu) has been open about sharing her motherhood journey on Instagram, posting images from throughout all her pregnancies
Candid: Hilaria even documented her two miscarriages on social media, revealing in April 2019 that she ‘was most likely’ losing her unborn child while sharing an image of herself in lingerie
Heartbreak: In November that same year, Hilaria suffered her second loss, and once again shared the devastating news on Instagram
Hilaria stopped short of confessing she had misled people about her Spanish roots instead doubling down on her previous claims that she was raised ‘with two cultures, American and Spanish’ and that she feels ‘a true sense of belonging to both’.
In a caption alongside a photo of her with Alec and their five children, she wrote: ‘I’ve spent the last month listening, reflecting, and asking myself how I can learn and grow.
‘My parents raised my brother and me with two cultures, American and Spanish, and I feel a true sense of belonging to both.
‘The way I’ve spoken about myself and my deep connection to two cultures could have been better explained – I should have been more clear and I’m sorry.
‘I’m proud of the way I was raised, and we’re raising our children to share the same love and respect for both.
‘Being vulnerable and pushing ourselves to learn and grow is what we’ve built our community on, and I hope to get back to the supportive and kind environment we’ve built together,’ she said.
At the end of December, it emerged that Hilaria – who in the past claimed to have grown up in Majorca and spoke with a Spanish accent – actually spent her childhood in Beacon Hill, Boston, and went by Hillary.
It started with a single tweet on December 21 which read: ‘You have to admire Hilaria Baldwin’s commitment to her decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person’.
The woman then continued to post videos and proof of how Hilaria’s accent has changed over the years.
Several former classmates came forward to confirm that Hilaria was in fact raised in Weston, Massachusetts, by American parents without a hint of a foreign accent.
In the wake of the scandal, Hilaria took a break from social media and retreated to the Baldwins’ home in East Hampton, where she was staying with her children, while Alec was renting a nearby property so that he could quarantine away from his family and commute back and forth to the city for work.