Alec Baldwin did not plan on getting married again.

A messy divorce from ex-wife Kim Basinger had left him soured on the institution, while he also felt that remarrying would send their daughter Ireland Baldwin , as Alec wrote in his 2017 memoir Nevertheless , "a signal that looked like abandonment."

Now 29, Ireland was only 5 when her parents first separated in 2000, and the headline-making fallout from the Baldwin-Basinger custody battle lasted for years.

But the way Alec remembers it, his misgivings simply vanished when he met Hilaria Baldwin —then Hilaria Thomas—on Feb. 18, 2011, in New York. He and a friend were "wandering around downtown with no destination in mind," Alec wrote in his book, when they popped into Pure Food and Wine, a restaurant with a raw vegan m

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