India, March 18 -- Hilaria Baldwin is opening up on the controversy surrounding her accent. On a recent episode of her TLC reality series, The Baldwins, the 41-year-old shared that the reason why she alternates between Spanish and American accents is "code-switching." Ever since she shot to fame after her marriage to Alec Baldwin in 2012, the yoga instructor has faced criticism for her Spanish heritage.

In a 2020 podcast, Hilaria claimed she was born in Mallorca and raised in Boston, adding that she moved to the United States at the age of 19. But, social media sleuths uncovered at the time that she was born and raised in the States, according to Fox News. She later apologised for the "confusion" in an Instagram post and argued that "cul...