In an interview with the New York Times in December 2020, Hilaria responded to claims that she was pretending to be Spanish.
She downplayed the cucumber incident as a simple error and blamed it on nerves during an early live TV interview.
Hilaria admitted to a disheartening mistake in the online bio provided by her management agency, which said incorrectly that she was born in Mallorca.
She explained that changing her name from Hilary to Hilaria is in line with what her Spanish family calls her.
Although she was born in Boston, she made sure to be transparent about her origins, saying that she was born in Boston, lived in Boston and Spain for a while, and that her family now lives in Spain.
