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Ireland Baldwin is vowing to ignore the negative comments that come her way.
The daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger participated in the recent social media trend in which celebrities introduce themselves with their real name but then mention names of characters they’ve played. In Ireland’s case, however, she used cruel names she’s heard over the years, including her father’s 2007 “thoughtless little pig” comment.
“My name is Ireland… but the media likes to call me…” she wrote in the TikTok video that was set to The Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name.”
As she dances to the song, the words “fat,” “attention seeking, voluptuous, promiscuous” and “thoughtless little pig” appear onscreen.
It’s unclear why she blamed the media for the latter comment when it was the embattled “Rust” actor who infamously called her the horrible nickname in an angry voicemail when she was just 11 years old. That being said, she’s moved on from the ordeal.
“My name is Ireland. I’m a writer. And I think pigs are cute so jokes [sic] on you,” she ended the video.
In a lengthy Instagram caption that accompanied the post, the 26-year-old called the time being upset over nicknames “wasted.”
“I can’t even tell you how much time I’ve wasted worrying about headlines and comments. Can you believe that?” she wrote. “Can you believe how much control we give others and how much power we give their narratives. Maybe you don’t experience this on the scale that I do, but the majority of us have been called names and have had assumptions made about us.”
Ireland went on to say she no longer “could give less of a s–t” what the media calls her because it’s “one giant garbage dump.”
“I know who I am for the first time in a long time and I’m excited to show you what I’ve been working on,” she wrote, adding that she knows her future work in the entertainment industry will draw comparisons to the “achievements of both my parents.”
The self-described writer ended her caption with one final note of self-confidence.
“I don’t give a f–k what you think about how I look, what I wear, what I think and say, and damn does it feel good to get to this point,” she concluded.
Alec, 63, left the voicemail in question in the midst of his bitter custody battle with Basinger, 68, to whom he was married from 1993 to 2002.
The “Saturday Night Live” alum later admitted the audio “hurt [Ireland] in a permanent way,” though the duo poked fun at it together as recently as 2015.
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