Ireland Baldwin, the daughter of actors Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, is opening up about her upbringing in a recent blog post ahead of a major birthday.

In a Substack entry published on Monday, the 29-year-old model and actress described her childhood as she approaches her 30th birthday on Thursday. She wrote that she “grew up without two parents in my home and no siblings to turn to,” which at times led to a “lonely childhood.”

Baldwin said she enters her thirties feeling unburdened from what she described as the “need to continue to carry my narcissistic, unreliable, addict family members who I thought I needed in my life.” She explained that this loneliness led her to seek approval from certain relatives.

“For whatever reason, their validation and praise was meaningful to me,” Ba

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