Hilaria Baldwin shares the limelight with teenage daughter during her big red carpet moment

Hilaria Baldwin is used to the limelight, but she had to share the spotlight with her teenage daughter, Carmen, on Thursday.

The 42-year-old brought the 13-year-old as her date to the 2026 Dancers Against Cancer’s Gala of the Stars at The Beverly Hilton in LA, where she was honored as Philanthropist of the Year. Hilaria looked beautiful in a strapless, sheer floral dress with a plunging neckline and delicate train. 

Carmen is already taller than her 5’4 mom. The teenager looked elegant in a champagne, strapless gown with ruched detailing and proudly stood tall beside her mother as they posed together for photos at the event.

Carmen is the eldest of Hilaria’s children with her husband, Alec Baldwin. They are also parents to Rafael, 11, Leonardo, 10, Romeo, eight, Eduardo, six, Lucía, five, and Ilaria, four.

Age-gap romance

Hilaria and Alec made headlines in 2011 when they began dating due to their 26-year age gap.

The former yoga instructor was only 27 years old when she met the 30 Rock alum, who was 52 at the time, and they married the following year.

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In July, Hilaria addressed the “gold digger vibes” she was associated with when she began dating Alec, whom she described as “a rich and famous older man.”

“I’m not that way,” she said on SiriusXM’s PageSix Radio. “From the beginning, he would always try to buy me things, and I would be like, ‘No, I don’t want this.’

“I was living in a small apartment, and any New Yorker knows that the temperature inside of an apartment is a little complicated, right?” Hilaria continued. “I actually had a computer that didn’t work very well, and I would use it to heat my hands at night.”

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She added: “I was like, ‘I don’t want you to buy me something because I want to know that I like you for you,’ because I don’t want to be a prisoner either. It’s two ways.”

Joking about their large brood of kids, Hilaria further quipped that that’s not “what gold diggers should do.”

A successful gold digger, she teased, would “have one then get out. Don’t have seven because they’re very expensive.”

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Earlier this year, speaking with the Daily Mail, Hilaria also addressed her age gap with Alec, joking: “Take a 27-year-old yoga instructor married to a rich and famous older man — it sounds ridiculous. It sounds like a bad SNL sketch.”

The Dancing with the Stars alum nonetheless noted that her marriage to Alec “worked out, luckily,” and she and her husband “poke fun at each other in our family all the time.”

“I think people expect that Alec wanted somebody he could boss around, and we’re on the same level together,” she added.