It took time for Hilaria Baldwin to adjust to Alec Baldwin‘s life — and their age gap had a little something to do with that.
During the Sunday, March 30, episode of The Baldwins, Hilaria, 41, recalled moving in with Alec, 66, saying, “I used to do things very much the way Alec wanted them. I lived with tremendous anxiety and tremendous stress.”
Hilaria felt the difference between her and Alec’s generations. “I almost felt like I was a kid in an adult’s home,” she added. I don’t want to say parent because that sounds weird. But someone’s home and I didn’t feel like it was my home.”
The newest installment of Hilaria and Alec’s show followed the couple as they tried to agree on a new rug for their home. Elsewhere, Hilaria and Alec explored dog training for their pets that have permanently marked parts of their house with their pee and poop stains.
Before pulling back the curtain on their marriage, Hilaria and Alec tied the knot in 2012. They have since welcomed seven children: 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. (Alec also shares daughter Ireland, 29, with ex-wife Kim Basinger.)
Hilaria previously recalled being “judgmental” about couples with large age gaps before she met Alec.
“Before I got together with Alec, I would judge women and men that had big age differences,” she said during a November 2022 episode of her “Witches Anonymous” podcast. “I would look at it like, ‘This older man wants some, like, young bimbo with no opinions whatsoever.’ And then that younger woman is obviously a gold digger, and she obviously doesn’t even care and is just like, ‘OK, whatever, I hope you die and I’m gonna take all your money.’”
She continued: “Now that I’m in that relationship, and people will say those things about me regularly, I realize, I’m like, ‘Oh, my God, what was this trained into my head?’ And why was I so judgmental about other people who are literally just finding love? Maybe their love looks different from you and from your love or from what I thought love would be, but it doesn’t make it not valid.”
More recently, Hilaria elaborated on her first impression of Alec.
“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 on The Baldwins earlier this month. “I was in the land of splitting the check, and it was a big deal that he paid. I didn’t take that lightly. 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.’”
The Baldwins airs on TLC Sundays at 10 p.m. ET.
