Hilaria Baldwin planned to end her relationship with Alec Baldwin if his eldest daughter, Ireland Baldwin, didn’t approve.
During the Sunday, March 23, episode of TLC’s The Baldwins, Hilaria, 41, reflected on her bond with Ireland, 29,.”I feel like it is unique for a stepmom and stepdaughter relationship.” she said. “First of all, I am 11 years older than her, I didn’t raise her and we find tremendous humor in that.”
Hilaria valued Ireland’s opinion when she first started dating her father.
“Before I was her stepmother, when I met her I told Alec, ‘If she doesn’t like me, I am not staying,’” she revealed. “I [was] not going to be the wicked stepmother. My place in life is not to come into a family and cause problems.”
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Hilaria said she had “too much respect for the family” to cause issues, adding, “[Ireland] immediately welcomed me and we have never fought and it is so easy.”
Before finding love with Hilaria, Alec, 66, was married to Kim Basinger from 1993 to 2002. Their divorce was finalized after a bitter custody dispute that later caused tension between Alec and Ireland. They were able to work out their differences and Ireland has since become close to Alec and Hilaria — and the couple’s seven kids: Carmen Gabriela, 11, Rafael Thomas, 9, Leonardo Ángel Charles, 8, Romeo Alejandro David, 6, Eduardo “Edu” Pao Lucas, 4, María Lucía Victoria, 4, and Ilaria Catalina Irena, 2.
On Sunday’s episode, Hilaria also elaborated on her first meeting with Alec.
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“Obviously our age difference is there. I am always insecure. Even when I had dinner with him, I felt like it was a big deal that someone was bringing me out,” she recalled. “I was in the land of splitting the check and it was a big deal that he paid. I didn’t take that lightly.”
She continued: “Then he texted me asking, ‘What do you think about dating someone 26 years older than you?’ What I appreciated about him was that he was very into consent. He asked to kiss me for the first time.”
According to Alec, Hilaria previously dated men “who were age appropriate” for her. “She was very young so they were very young,” he told the cameras. “I would meet them and be like, ‘I get it. They are very handsome and very super fit.’”
Hilaria valued good appearance in a potential partner because of her plans for children.
“I wanted to have my kids and I wanted them to look good. I wanted to have a baby with a good looking guy. It could have been anybody, you were just the first good looking guy who walked up to me,” she quipped before being asked by producers if she dated other actors. “I wouldn’t date an actor when he was an actor. I dated an actor who went on to be on Broadway and we went and saw him naked.”
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Alec poked fun at how he attended Broadway’s Take Me Out to see “the love” of Hilaria’s life, which she denied. The meeting got even more awkward when Alec saw Hilaria’s ex naked after the musical.
“He is there and he turns out with his personality hanging out,” Alec revealed. “He had like a clarinet hanging from his pants.”
The Baldwins airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
