Ahead of her 30th birthday, Ireland Baldwin is taking a look back at her childhood. The daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger shared her thoughts about the trials and tribulations of growing up a Baldwin on her personal Substack page , revealing that she had a “lonely childhood” in a post titled “30, Flirty and Surviving.”

"I grew up without two parents in my home and no siblings to turn to. I had a lonely childhood at times, which is why I grew up feeling like I needed to win over certain people in my own family," she wrote. “For whatever reason, their validation and praise was meaningful to me.”

Baldwin, 67, and Basinger, 71, got married in 1993 before separating in 2000 and finalizing their divorce in 2002. As she heads into her third decade, Baldwin shared that ther

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