Alexander Rechits: Last News

Hilaria Baldwin was always a Spanish-wannabe — but she really put her foot in her mouth when she changed her name from Hillary, her old dance partner says.“The whole ‘Hilaria’ thing is hilarious to me,” Alexander Rechits, who competitively danced with the now-embattled yoga-bending celeb from 2006 to 2009, told the New York Times.

Hilaria Baldwin‘s former dance partner is speaking out amid her ongoing heritage scandal. In Baldwin’s recent New York Times interview, Alexander Rechits, who danced competitively with the mom of five from 2006 to 2009, explains why her post-2009 name change from Hillary Hayward-Thomas to Hilaria is “hilarious” to him.

Hilaria Baldwin's former dance partner is speaking out amid her ongoing heritage scandal. In Baldwin's recent interview, Alexander Rechits, who danced competitively with the mom of five from 2006 to 2009, explains why her post-2009 name change from Hillary Hayward-Thomas to Hilaria is «hilarious» to him.Boston-born Baldwin's name change, as well as questions about whether she exaggerated her Spanish accent and her connection to Spain, were recently raised by social media users. «The whole 'Hilaria' thing is hilarious to me. I understand why she did it,» Rechits says, noting that he knew Baldwin to be kind, caring and talented. «It was always her desire to be considered Spanish.

Hilaria Baldwin was born Hillary Hayward-Thomas and used to dance competitively under her birth name. If you don’t know, there has been a ton of controversy this week about her heritage after it was discovered she was actually born in Boston, Massachusetts, not Spain.