Alec and Hilaria Baldwin Just Welcomed Their Fifth Child

From Oprah Magazine

• Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have been together for over seven years.

• The couple met in Manhattan in 2011, and clicked instantly despite their 26-year age difference.

• They have five children together–Carmen, Rafael, Leonardo, Romeo, and a baby boy born in September–who are all between 2 and 7 years old.

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin are still going strong. The couple's first chance meeting in 2011–"on an unseasonably warm February evening," per Alec's Instagram–sparked a whirlwind romance. Eight years later, they have welcomed four children, two dogs, and a seemingly happy life together.

The Baldwins welcomed a baby boy—their fifth child together—on September 8. Hilaria shared the joyful announcement on Instagram, saying "We had a baby last night. He is perfect and we couldn’t be happier 🌟," and teasing her fans that they'd reveal the same soon.

The news is particularly touching in light of the fact that Hilaria, 36, has been open about suffering two miscarriages in 2019.

In honor of their happy milestone, here are some key facts about the Baldwins' love story.

Hilaria and Alec Baldwin met by chance in Manhattan.

A real life meet-cute! Alec shared a sweet Instagram post to mark the eight-year anniversary of their first encounter earlier this year, recalling his first chance meeting with yoga instructor Hilaria.

"8 years ago, I wandered into Pure Food and Wine on Irving Place, on an unseasonably warm February evening," he wrote. "My friend, @bocartist and I sat down (outside!) and as I turned to my left I saw a woman who would change my life. Entirely. 8 years today. Thanks for all you’ve given me. You are a gift."

Hilaria told The New York Times that Alec's opening line was pretty smooth. "I was standing near the door with my friends when he walked up and took my hand and said, ‘I must know you,’" she recalled. "You must know me?’” she replied, after which “he gave me his card.”

Hilaria wasn't sure if Alec was into her at first.

Hilaria has also opened up about the early days of the couple's courtship, revealing that she wasn't sure at first whether Alec's intentions were romantic. "He didn’t kiss me for six weeks!" she told Mariska Hargitay for Beach magazine. "He shook my hands for six weeks. We’d have the most romantic dinner date, and afterward he’d drop me off at my house and shake my hand... My girlfriends would call me and say, ‘Anything yet?’ and I’d say, “Nope, nope, nope.” Then they’d say, “Maybe he just wants to be friends.'"

Needless to say, Alec did not just want to be friends–and despite their 26-year age difference, Hilaria said the feeling was instantly mutual. "I didn’t really think too much of it because we’re so different,’" she said of their age gap. "Everyone has commented on our age difference, and it is big; and I’m not someone who watches TV. So he’s somebody completely out of my world—not someone I’d necessarily think of."

The couple married a year and a half after they met.

Though their courtship may have been a slow burn, things between Alec and Hilaria soon began to move quickly. "Five months into our relationship, we got an apartment together; then we started talking about getting married; then he proposed; then we got married; now we have a kid," she has said. "So it all went quite fast!’"

The couple married on June 29, 2012, at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York City. Alec, who was previously married to Kim Basinger for nine years, told The New York Times ahead of the wedding that before meeting Hilaria, he wasn't sure if he would marry again. “I’ve dated a lot of people since my divorce, and have thought a lot about what I wanted and what I wanted to do,” he said. “I thought about it too much, I suppose. I wasn’t really ready to take that chance and to act until I met Hilaria."

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have five children together.

Once again, they move fast! Hilaria gave birth to their first baby daughter, Carmen Gabriela Baldwin, on August 23, 2013. Less than two years later, on June 17, 2015, their son Rafael Thomas Baldwin was born.

The couple's second son, Leonardo Ángel Charles Baldwin, was born on September 12, 2016. Their third son Romeo Alejandro David Baldwin was born on May 17, 2018.

And, of course, their fifth baby boy was brought into world on September 8.

Having five young children is no easy feat, but Hilaria has explained that she and Alec manage by ensuring that they share parenting responsibilities equally. "Everybody says, 'Oh yeah, sure. I’m going to be with you, and I’m going to change diapers and do all these things,'” she told Mom.Me, "and you always worry that at 2 a.m. you’re going to be alone with your child and your husband’s going to be snoring... But no, [Alec's] really great. He wakes up with me every single time that she wakes up. He’s sweet."

Alec also has a 24-year-old daughter, Ireland Baldwin, from his first marriage to Kim Basinger. Hilaria has spoken candidly in the past about her relationship with Ireland, opening up on Instagram in response to people who criticized her for not mentioning Ireland alongside her biological children.

"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," Hilaria wrote. "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 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."

As a result, she explained, "sometimes my language about my biological children does not include her. Because I did not birth her and I never want to disrespect the fact that she has a wonderful mother. 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."

Alec says that his parenting style has evolved since being with Hilaria.

"It's a generational thing," Alec told Elle Decor of his and Hilaria's different parenting styles. "I'm a lot older, and when I grew up there was none of this bargaining and negotiating you do with kids now. Making them understand. My father was like 'Oh, I'll make you understand!' My mother used to hit us with a curtain rod, you know, people used to hit their kids with kitchen utensils. But [Hilaria] is the best mommy, she respects them, she honors them."

Later in the same interview, the couple revealed that Alec is happy to let Hilaria take on the "alpha" role in their household. "He realizes that I'm there with the kids the majority of the day, and he's very, very good at letting me be the alpha," Hilaria said. "Well, I've just never been spoken to the way you speak to me sometimes," Alec joked in response. "It's really just incredible."

Hilaria has spoken candidly about experiencing a miscarriages in 2019.

In April in 2019, Hilaria revealed on Instagram that she was "likely experiencing a miscarriage," explaining that she "always promised myself that if I were to get pregnant again, I would share the news with you guys pretty early, even if that means suffering a public loss."

A few days later, she confirmed the news in another post. "There was no heartbeat today at my scan...so it’s over," she wrote. "But I have some pretty strong and amazing heartbeats right here,” she continued, alongside a sweet photo of herself and Alec with their four children. “I am surrounded by such love and I feel so fortunate.”

More recently, Alec opened up about the loss in an interview with People. "When your wife tells you you're going to have a baby and you lock in to that idea, there's a kind of zone you enter," he said, before opening up about how it felt to realize that the pregnancy was not viable. "When they tell you it's not going to work out, it was sad, it did break my heart a little bit."

In November, Hilaria suffered another miscarriage. "We are very sad to share that today we learned that our baby passed away at 4 months. 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," Hilaria wrote in an Instagram caption, accompanying a devastating video.

But there was good news on the horizon.

Back in 2019, Hilaria revealed to People that she intended to try again for baby number five. "They’re my favorite things in the world so why not?” she said.

On April 7, Hilaria announced that she was pregnant in an Instagram post with the sound of the baby's heartbeat. "I’ll let the baby do the talking because I don’t have the words to express how this sound makes us feel. Just got the great news that all is well and all is healthy with this little munchkin," Hilaria wrote.

In a follow-up video, Carmen, the Baldwins' daughter, learns she's getting a sibling, and seems thrilled. Let's see what happens when baby boy Baldwin comes home.

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