Daughter of actors Kim Basinger (68) and Alec Baldwin (63) has been in the spotlight ever since she was a little girl. However, it has also had its downsides.
Wednesday let namely Ireland Baldwin (26) released a TikTok video, in which she looks back on her past. In the video, she refers to some of the condescending words she has been called up over the years – both by the media and by her own father.
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Condescending towards the daughter
The celebrity daughter recently joined the popular trend, where you can, among other things, make your own video versions of the song “That’s Not My Name”.
“My name is Ireland, but the media likes to call me…”, it was initially stated in the text above the video, which was also shared on Instagram, according to Us Magazine.
Further in the video, the 26-year-old points out that she has, among other things, been called “fat” and “attention-sick”, followed by “a thoughtless little pig”.
The latter quote belongs to her famous father.
Back in April 2007, a voice message was leaked, in which he called his then eleven-year-old daughter the condescending words. This happened in the middle of the divorce with Ireland’s mother, Kim Basinger.
Shortly after the incident, the “It’s complicated” actor gave a public apology to his daughter, during a TV appearance on the talk show “The View”, according to ABC News.
– Calling your child a pig or something else is obviously inappropriate, and I apologize to my daughter for that. Everyone who knows me knows that I have a good relationship with my daughter, he said, according to the website.
Furthermore, in the mentioned Instagram post, the 26-year-old also shares her thoughts that she has previously spent a lot of time worrying about headlines and comments.
“Can you believe it? Can you believe how much control we give others and how much power we give their stories. You may not experience this to the degree that I do, but most of us have experienced being called by various names.
Today, she tries to avoid the negative comments, and instead looks forward to a new project that she has been working on for a long time.
“I know that my decision to work in the entertainment industry will lead to a constant comparison with the achievements of both my parents, and I continue to embrace the parts of me that actually resemble them,” she writes, adding:
“But I am very happy to show you the person I am, and the person I have become very proud of.”