Kim Basinger’s 1983 Playboy issue; Ireland Baldwin.Photo:Ireland/Instagram
Ireland/Instagram
Ireland Baldwinsees her mom everywhere!
The 28-year-old daughter ofAlec BaldwinandKim Basingervisited Las Vegas to celebrate a friend’s upcoming wedding and, while shopping in Sin City, stumbled across one of the most iconic photos of her mom — her February 1983Playboycover.
In an April 6Instagram post, Ireland shared a picture of the issue on a rack filled with other vintagePlayboymagazines.
The $15 copy highlights the blonde beauty as “007’s new woman,” as she starred in 1983’sNever Say Never Againalongside Sean Connery’s James Bond.
“Just thrifting in Vegas 🫣❤️,” the model-turned-writer wrote in the caption, tagging her mom.
Recently, Ireland shared another post dedicated to her mom while celebrating the actress’s 70th birthday.
Alongside a photo of herself — clad in a pink wig for the festivities — posing with a smiling Basinger, Ireland wrote, “Happy birthday mommy 🥹.”
“There’s no one like you,” she continued. “There will never be. you are my forever IT girl. 🩷🫶🏻."
Ireland is the only child of Alec and Basinger, who weremarried from 1993 to 2002. The couple divorced when she was 7 years old.
“So I brought up Ireland in a very unconventional way,” the actress continued. “I just wanted her to be free. If she wanted to have her friends over and write over the walls with pen, that was fine.”
“I wanted her childhood to be full of love and light and animals and friends,” she added.
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Kim Basinger and Ireland Baldwin in 2008.Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic
Now, Ireland is also a mom. The writerwelcomed daughter Holland— her first kid and Alec and Basinger’s only first grandchild — with RAC in May 2023.
Speaking about her hopes for parenthood onGirlboss Radioahead of Holland’s birth, Ireland revealed that she was most excited about “things I really wanted in terms of stability as a child myself.”
“I get to raise this little human and do things completely differently than what I was taught was the norm,” she said at the time. “It’s cool that I get to unconditionally love this person and do my best to make her as equipped for this world and badass as possible.”
source: people.com
