Is Alec Baldwin Quitting Acting for his Second Child?

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(Far left Hilaria Thomas, middle Alec Baldwin, and far right Ireland Baldwin)

30 Rock Actor Alec Baldwin has had a tumultuous relationship with the media and being in the spot light.  Baldwin has voiced his struggles to deal with the pushy cameras and negative press that comes with being famous. Alec and his wife Hilaria Thomas are expecting a daughter in late summer or early fall and he’s hoping that his second daughter (Alec is already father to daughter Ireland, 17, with Kim Basinger) won’t know he was ever an actor.

Alec shared,   “I’m having a baby. And everyone has seen how certain things have played out with my daughter, which as been very painful – it’s been really unpleasant. That has consequences, and I do not want that to happen with my next child. I have one dream in my life and that is that this daughter I’m having – she comes to me about seven or eight years from now, she has a friend, and she’s at her house and she says, ‘Daddy, Susie’s mom says you used to be on TV. Daddy, is that true?’ She has no knowledge of me as a public person. That would be heaven for me.”

The unpleasantness Alec is referring to was the voice mail he left for Ireland in 2007. In the voice mail he angrily ranted at Ireland and the recording was released to the public.

Alec Baldwin is known to consistently complain about the media and the spotlight. It could be the case that he is been acting for such a long time, he started acting in the early 80's, that he is lost perspective and forgot how lucky he is.  After all, it is acting which allowed him to supply both his daughter and his wife with a comfortable life.