Mystery Surrounds Arrival of Alec, Hilaria Baldwin's 6th Baby

Their fifth child together was just born Sept. 8
By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 2, 2021 1:48 AM CST
Alec, Hilaria Baldwin Welcome 6th Baby, Months After 5th Baby
Actor Alec Baldwin, left, and wife Hilaria Baldwin attend the American Ballet Theatre's annual spring gala at the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday, May 20, 2019, in New York.   (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Alec and Hilaria Baldwin have welcomed a sixth baby to their family, a source confirms to People, hours after Hilaria posted a photo to Instagram showing herself with the couple's five known children, plus a newborn. The news set off rampant speculation on Twitter, considering she just gave birth to baby No. 5 on Sept. 8 of last year. "I texted Hilaria’s publicist and asked if the child was adopted or if Hilaria was pregnant late last year when I interviewed her," New York Times reporter Katherine Rosman tweeted. "(I know these are not the only two possible scenarios.) 'Not sharing!' the publicist replied." Page Six got a similar response: "We’re still not issuing a statement or confirming anything—what she posted stands," a rep says.

Reads one theory on the Twitter thread of another NYT reporter, Jessica Grose, "My guess: After 2 pregnancy losses in 2019 they decided to go the surrogacy route to have Baby #5, then she got pregnant they found out it was a boy (& they were trying for a girl), said YOLO and went through with the surrogacy too. Looks like the baby is a girl dressed in pink." Another commenter on that same thread was concerned with the caption on the Instagram photo, which read "7" with a heart emoji. "but they have 6 kids...unless she’s counting Alec’s previous daughter do you think she may be pregnant again in the pic??" A source, however, tells Page Six it was, indeed, Ireland Baldwin that Hilaria was including in that number. (More Hilaria Baldwin stories.)

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