In sharing news that she had given birth to a baby girl, Ireland Baldwin concealed her newborn’s face in a photo she posted on Instagram. This gesture that suggests she won’t be adopting the controversial social media habits of her father and stepmother, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, who keep their seven young children in the media spotlight by constantly posting photos and sharing private information about them.
The photo that Ireland Baldwin, 27, posted Thursday showed her cuddling with her new daughter, Holland, and boyfriend RAC in the hospital, Page Six reported. Congratulations and heart emojis flooded in from some of Ireland Baldwin’s celebrity friends, including Rumer Willis and Sailor Lee Brinkley Cook. Word had yet to come from her father and stepmother. Notably, TV host Daphne Oz, the former co-host of Hilaria Baldwin’s long-shuttered mom podcast, also offered congratulations.
Ireland Baldwin is a mama — see what she named her newborn baby! (via @toofab) https://t.co/gtKlJnfVXJ
— TMZ (@TMZ) May 18, 2023
Ireland Baldwin’s relationship with her father and stepmother is a bit of a mystery, as the New York-based couple are immersed in raising their seven children, ages 8 months to 9 years old. Alec Baldwin has has been busy finishing up filming his troubled Western film “Rust,” while dealing with the legal fall-out of fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ on the movie’s set in 2021.
Earlier this month, the 65-year-old TV and film star admitted he forgot to include Ireland, who lives in Oregon, in an Instagram tribute he paid to his “seven children,” saying they had given him reason to “carry on during tough times.” Baldwin later corrected himself to acknowledge he has eight children and to proudly note that Ireland, his daughter with first wife Kim Basinger, was about to make him a grandfather. Baldwin subsequently included Ireland in a Mother’s Day post, praising “all the mothers out there,” including his late mother, his sisters, Hilaria and Ireland, “who is about to become a mother.”
Now that Ireland Baldwin has become a mother, one of her first notable parenting choices was to conceal her child’s face. It’s a choice embraced by a growing number of celebrities who have listened to experts who say that children can be harmed in the long term when their celebrity and influencer parents make them fixtures on social media.
Earlier this month, “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner explained how terrible she felt when she briefly and accidentally posted her young daughter’s photo online. She said that she and her husband, singer Joe Jonas, “have always advocated for our kids’ rights to privacy.” She said she understands that her daughter is too young to give consent to have her image disseminated across the internet. “Our children deserve the right to grow up out of the public eye, to learn and grow in private,” Turner said.
This concern has been long lost the Baldwins, especially Hilaria Baldwin, who has excessively shared images of her children on Instagram as she has tried to build her brand as a lifestyle guru and mom influencer. Many of their seven children were only a few hours old when they made their debuts on her Instagram version of her Baldwin family reality show.
Hilaria Baldwin has posted multiple photos over the years, showing her breastfeeding or sharing personal information about her kids’ struggles — including videos of when they threw tantrums or were otherwise acting out. In 2021, she encouraged fans to laugh along when one of her sons was being disciplined for using a profanity. Hilaria Baldwin can expect that her posts about her children’s personal lives will be picked up by gossip and entertainment sites, leading critics to say that she invades her children’s privacy and uses them “as props.”
Hilaria Baldwin takes selfie while breastfeeding newborn son: ‘We are champs at multitasking’ https://t.co/QaBJrz8qco pic.twitter.com/JZ5arTwWvj
— Yahoo Entertainment (@YahooEnt) September 15, 2020
Following her husband’s accidental killing of Hutchins, Hilaria Baldwin also was accused by entertainment sites, P.R. experts and people online of being insensitive to Hutchins’ grieving husband and son, as she continued to “over-share” information about her children to apparently get attention and to generate sympathy for her husband. Both Alec and Hilaria Baldwin toned down the frequency of their Instagram posts after he was charged with involuntary manslaughter in Hutchins’ death earlier this year. But since prosecutors have dismissed those charges, the couple have returned to posting with more frequency.
With 667,000 followers, Ireland Baldwin also is active on Instagram. She’s shared photos about her growing belly and talked openly about the physical challenges of being pregnant. She also shared photos of the fruit-themed nursery she and RAC had prepared for their daughter. But it will be interesting to see if and how much she reveals about her daughter as she starts to raise her. From the looks of it, Ireland will be far more circumspect and guarded about her privacy than her father and stepmother are with their children.
In sharing news that she had given birth to a baby girl, Ireland Baldwin concealed her newborn’s face in a photo she posted on Instagram. This gesture that suggests she won’t be adopting the controversial social media habits of her father and stepmother, Alec and Hilaria Baldwin, who keep their seven young children in the media spotlight by constantly posting photos and sharing private information about them.
The photo that Ireland Baldwin, 27, posted Thursday showed her cuddling with her new daughter, Holland, and boyfriend RAC in the hospital, Page Six reported. Congratulations and heart emojis flooded in from some of Ireland Baldwin’s celebrity friends, including Rumer Willis and Sailor Lee Brinkley Cook. Word had yet to come from her father and stepmother. Notably, TV host Daphne Oz, the former co-host of Hilaria Baldwin’s long-shuttered mom podcast, also offered congratulations.
Ireland Baldwin is a mama — see what she named her newborn baby! (via @toofab) https://t.co/gtKlJnfVXJ
— TMZ (@TMZ) May 18, 2023
Ireland Baldwin’s relationship with her father and stepmother is a bit of a mystery, as the New York-based couple are immersed in raising their seven children, ages 8 months to 9 years old. Alec Baldwin has has been busy finishing up filming his troubled Western film “Rust,” while dealing with the legal fall-out of fatally shooting cinematographer Halyna Hutchins’ on the movie’s set in 2021.
Earlier this month, the 65-year-old TV and film star admitted he forgot to include Ireland, who lives in Oregon, in an Instagram tribute he paid to his “seven children,” saying they had given him reason to “carry on during tough times.” Baldwin later corrected himself to acknowledge he has eight children and to proudly note that Ireland, his daughter with first wife Kim Basinger, was about to make him a grandfather. Baldwin subsequently included Ireland in a Mother’s Day post, praising “all the mothers out there,” including his late mother, his sisters, Hilaria and Ireland, “who is about to become a mother.”
Now that Ireland Baldwin has become a mother, one of her first notable parenting choices was to conceal her child’s face. It’s a choice embraced by a growing number of celebrities who have listened to experts who say that children can be harmed in the long term when their celebrity and influencer parents make them fixtures on social media.
Earlier this month, “Game of Thrones” star Sophie Turner explained how terrible she felt when she briefly and accidentally posted her young daughter’s photo online. She said that she and her husband, singer Joe Jonas, “have always advocated for our kids’ rights to privacy.” She said she understands that her daughter is too young to give consent to have her image disseminated across the internet. “Our children deserve the right to grow up out of the public eye, to learn and grow in private,” Turner said.
This concern has been long lost the Baldwins, especially Hilaria Baldwin, who has excessively shared images of her children on Instagram as she has tried to build her brand as a lifestyle guru and mom influencer. Many of their seven children were only a few hours old when they made their debuts on her Instagram version of her Baldwin family reality show.
Hilaria Baldwin has posted multiple photos over the years, showing her breastfeeding or sharing personal information about her kids’ struggles — including videos of when they threw tantrums or were otherwise acting out. In 2021, she encouraged fans to laugh along when one of her sons was being disciplined for using a profanity. Hilaria Baldwin can expect that her posts about her children’s personal lives will be picked up by gossip and entertainment sites, leading critics to say that she invades her children’s privacy and uses them “as props.”
Hilaria Baldwin takes selfie while breastfeeding newborn son: ‘We are champs at multitasking’ https://t.co/QaBJrz8qco pic.twitter.com/JZ5arTwWvj
— Yahoo Entertainment (@YahooEnt) September 15, 2020
Following her husband’s accidental killing of Hutchins, Hilaria Baldwin also was accused by entertainment sites, P.R. experts and people online of being insensitive to Hutchins’ grieving husband and son, as she continued to “over-share” information about her children to apparently get attention and to generate sympathy for her husband. Both Alec and Hilaria Baldwin toned down the frequency of their Instagram posts after he was charged with involuntary manslaughter in Hutchins’ death earlier this year. But since prosecutors have dismissed those charges, the couple have returned to posting with more frequency.
With 667,000 followers, Ireland Baldwin also is active on Instagram. She’s shared photos about her growing belly and talked openly about the physical challenges of being pregnant. She also shared photos of the fruit-themed nursery she and RAC had prepared for their daughter. But it will be interesting to see if and how much she reveals about her daughter as she starts to raise her. From the looks of it, Ireland will be far more circumspect and guarded about her privacy than her father and stepmother are with their children.