HGTV star Heather El Moussa is celebrating her mom!
The “Flip Off” star posted a series of pictures of her with her mom to celebrate her mom’s birthday. In the Instagram post, Heather wrote, “To my mama
Happy birthday mom, you are not only gorgeous but you have a beautiful heart and soul. You are selfless and have inspired me every day to be the best wife, mom and human I can be.
I learned to love from you and to push through in the hardest times. You are creative and inspiring and fun. The best gamma and mom, you put your all into raising me and Jenna and i am truly grateful for you every single day. I love you so much!! Cheers to being forever young!!”
The first picture shows Heather in her wedding dress hugging her mom. A few subsequent photos feature husband Tarek El Moussa, but the majority feature Heather’s mom with Heather and Tarek’s two-year-old son Tristan.
Heather & Tarek El Moussa Differ About Wanting More Kids
While Tristan is Heather’s only child, he’s Tarek’s third.
Tarek El Moussa shares 14-year-old daughter Taylor and 10-year-old son Brayden with ex-wife Christina Haack. The three have been open about their co-parenting challenges, but bonded while competing against each other in the HGTV competition show “The Flip Off.“
Heather says she was never a person who longed to have children before she met Tarek. In an Instagram post, she wrote, “To be honest, I was never one of those girls who dreamed about her wedding or planned how many kids she wanted. There was even a time in my life when I didn’t think it would happen for me. I never imagined I’d date a man who already had children. And even when Tarek and I decided to have a baby, I wasn’t sure how becoming a mama would affect me—or how incredibly life-changing it would be, in a way that’s hard to even explain.”
But now the couple find themselves at odds over having more.
In a recent episode of the “Scrubbing In with Becca Tilley & Tanya Rad” podcast, Heather told the hosts, “(Tristan) is, like, the light of my life. It makes me so happy. I’m like, ‘How could I not want more? But my husband is very much done. So we’re very different on what we want for our future, which is hard.”
Tarek & Heather El Moussa Negotiate Family Planning in Therapy
Heather admits that when she and Tarek were dating, kids weren’t on the table.
“It’s interesting because when we first met, we talked about not having kids of our own,” Heather said on the podcast. “And I think for me, until I met that person, I wasn’t like someone that was like, ‘I can’t wait to have children.’ I wanted to get married, but I had never met anyone that I would want to have children with.”
Now that her feelings about the subject have changed, the couple has gone into therapy to deal with it.
“We’re very different on what we want with our future, which is hard because you know you’re in love with someone and you have this strong marriage, but then you want very different things. So, we are in therapy talking through things,” Heather said on the podcast.
“We never went to therapy together, which I wish we would have started it sooner because I think it’s such an amazing thing and it helps communication,” she added. “But we more recently, I’d say four months ago, started going to therapy together and we go twice a month, so we don’t go every week, but it just helps us, like talk through what I’m feeling.”
Heather admits she hopes therapy will help Tarek change his mind, and soon!
“I’m 37,” she explained on the podcast. “I’m turning 38 this year. So, for me, it’s kind of like now or never in a way. Not because you can’t have babies older, but I don’t want to be 40 having babies still because it’s a lot. It takes up a lot of your time, a lot of your life, and the kids are my priority over myself. So, I want to do it, get my body back. It’s hard.”