Hilaria Baldwin detailed the excruciating moment she was publicly shamed by a fellow celebrity parent in front of her husband, Alec, that left her ‘heart pounding.’  

In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Manual Not Included, obtained by Us Weekly, the mother-of-seven recalled being ‘undermined’ by a ‘very famous actress.’

The moment occurred when she told her eldest daughter, Carmen, now 11, ‘to stop eating bread until after dinner’ after she ‘got to slice five.’

Hilaria explained that  told her little one that if she was still hungry she could ‘have more.’

‘She got upset with me, and the people nearby took notice,’ Hilaria wrote. ‘I felt that what I was saying was reasonable and I just wanted to make sure Carmen ate well.’

As her then-toddler got ‘visibly madder and madder’ by what her mom said,  Hilaria explained she was hit with ‘self-consciousness and embarrᴀssment.’

Hilaria Baldwin detailed the excruciating moment she was publicly shamed by a fellow celebrity parent in front of her husband, Alec Baldwin, that left her ‘heart pounding’

This got even worse as an unnamed celebrity scolded her by saying: ‘Oh, gosh! Children just know what they should eat and are very in tune with their bodies, so trust their wisdom and let her eat bread!’ 

‘She had spoken with such loftiness that she might as well have been Marie Antoinette talking about cake,’ Hilaria noted.

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The woman then proceeded to pick up the breadbasket and offer Carmen another piece, against her mother’s wishes.

‘I became very quiet, stunned at being undermined in front of my daughter at the very moment I was trying to parent,’ the former yoga instructor remembered. 

As Carmen slowly took a piece and ate it, Hilaria said as much as she wanted to stop what was happening she did not want to ‘be seen as the bad guy’ by her child. 

Then, after Carmen was finished, the woman offered Carmen ‘another piece of bread.’

‘By this point, my toes were digging into Alec’s legs, my just-given-birth hormones roiling, and I whispered to him, “Will you please take Carmen inside and I’ll bring Rafa?”’ she wrote. 

As she walked away, Hilaria said she defensively told the actress: ‘I don’t have a problem with her eating bread, I just want her to eat other things too. I don’t want her to feel sick.’ 

In an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, Manual Not Included, obtained by Us Weekly, the mother-of-seven recalled being ‘undermined’ by a ‘very famous actress’

The moment occurred when she told her eldest daughter, Carmen, now 11, ‘to stop eating bread until after dinner’ after she ‘got to slice five’

Hilaria admitted that the exchange left her silently fuming ‘for the rest of the day’ as she nodded at other people’s small talk and forced herself to smile.

As they left the gathering, Hilaria claims the woman stumbled behind her ‘in the dark on the rock driveway’ to get in one more sH๏τ. 

Hilaria revealed how the actress, who she described as quite drunk, slurred to her and Alec: ‘I gave your daughter so much bread. I hope she doesn’t get a tummy ache!’

She opted to ignore her and keep walking with Alec and her kids.

Still, she admitted part of her wishes she left this ‘famous actress schooled, with her mouth open’ by saying something witty or snarky back. 

As her then-toddler got ‘visibly madder and madder’ by what her mom said, Hilaria explained she was hit with ‘self-consciousness and embarrᴀssment’

‘Over the years I realized that the real problem wasn’t the bread or the potential tummy ache,’ Hilaria concluded. ‘The problem wasn’t even that she’d gotten involved in a private mom-and-child moment. The problem was that I didn’t have the confidence or know-how to stand up for what I felt was right.’

In that moment,  Hilaria explained that she gave her power away because she saw the woman as someone more ‘famous and beautiful and older’ than herself.

‘I didn’t have the confidence that my children would love me even if my choice was less fun than what someone else was offering,’ she wrote. ‘I should have looked the actress in the eye and thanked her for her experience, then removed my kids from her presence. But I was young and easily intimidated.’ 

Hilaria, then, jokingly praised herself for politely maneuvering the ‘situation without throwing her off the balcony.’