Heather Rae El Moussa is getting candid about her household planning journey with husband Tarek El Moussa. The HGTV stars have a phenomenal blended household. They’re the proud mother and pop to 2-year-old son Tristan and the proud stepmom and pop to youngsters Taylor, 14, and Brayden, 9, who El Moussa shares with ex-wife, Christina Haack. The six make up certainly one of Hollywood’s most admirable blended households, and, if Heather Rae had her manner, it could continue to grow.
“[Tristan] is, like, the sunshine of my life. It makes me so blissful,” she mentioned on a latest episode of Scrubbing In with Becca Tinney & Tanya Rad, per Us Weekly. “I’m like, ‘How may I not need extra?’ However my husband may be very a lot achieved.”
And, on the danger of being named Captain Apparent, that’s a very powerful spot to be in. Heather Rae mentioned it’s “exhausting” to disagree along with her husband about what they need their future to seem like. Which is why the celebs of The Flipping El Moussas go to {couples} remedy and are “speaking via issues.”
“I want we’d have began it sooner as a result of I believe it’s such an incredible factor and it helps communication,” she admitted.
Taboo because it might sound, we now have to provide a spherical of applause to the dad and mom who’re going to remedy — a minimum of twice a month — and speaking via their household planning journey. These conversations are exhausting sufficient to have in personal while you aren’t on the identical web page — by no means thoughts with a 3rd get together within the room. However they’re placing within the work to allow them to do what’s finest for themselves and their household.
Tarek El Moussa, Heather Rae at DirecTV’s Christmas on December 10, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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El Moussa was not on the podcast to clarify his reasoning for being “very a lot achieved,” however Heather Rae may be very cognizant of her ever-ticking organic clock.
“I’m turning 38 this 12 months. So, for me, it’s sort of like now or by no means in a manner, not as a result of you may’t have infants older, however I don’t need to be 40 having infants nonetheless ‘trigger it’s quite a bit,” the Promoting Sundown alum mentioned. “It takes up quite a lot of your time, quite a lot of your life, and the children are my precedence over myself.”
Heather Rae didn’t have a linear path to parenthood. (Actually, how many individuals do?) The TV persona was within the midst of IVF planning when she obtained pregnant “naturally” with Tristan.
“However I do have embryos saved and we had been planning on implanting …” she instructed Us Weekly in 2023. ” … I didn’t suppose I’d be capable to get pregnant alone. And now I’ve these embryos and who is aware of what’s going to occur.”
And “who is aware of what’s going to occur” should be precisely how Heather Rae, El Moussa, and their therapist are feeling now.
These blended movie star households make it look simple!