Tarek El Moussa and his current wife, Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young), are once again acknowledging with humor the striking resemblance between Heather and Tarek’s ex-wife, Cristina Salon (née Haack), in a fun Instagram skit.
On Wednesday, Tarek, 42, shared a comical video in which Heather, 36, asks him to buy her a chai latte at a cafe. After getting their drinks, Tarek spots a woman who looks exactly like Heather from behind.
He sits next to her, only to discover that it is his ex-wife, Christina, who he was. married from 2009 to 2018, dressed in an identical white tennis skirt and matching long-sleeved blouse. Christina looks annoyed when Tarek raises his hands in defense and Heather angrily approaches her.
“Excuse me?” Heather exclaims before playfully slapping Tarek across the face.
“Well, I think it’s confusing,” admits Tarek, looking into the camera and rubbing his cheek.
The video’s caption read: “Heather finally did what Christina wanted to do for years… can you guess what that is?” Cristina’s husband, Joshua Hall, chimed in with a facepalm emoji, to which Tarek responded with three laughing and crying emojis.
This isn’t the first time Tarek has poked fun at the similarities between Heather and Christina’s appearances. Earlier this month, he posted another video where the two women appeared dressed in identical black strapless tops and faded ripped jeans.
“Wait, no, that’s not right,” Heather said, twirling her hair into a mini braid similar to Christina’s long waves.
“It must be all that bleach,” Christina joked, referring to her blonde hair. The video ended with Tarek concluding, “Well, I think it’s confusing.”
Since their divorcesCristina, 40 years old, has married 43-year-old realtor Josh Hall, while Tarek found love with the former Selling sunsets star.
Christina and Tarek share two children, daughter Taylor, 13, and son Brayden, 8. Christina is also mom to her son, Hudson, 4, from her marriage to Ant Anstead. As for Heather and Tarek, they celebrated their son Tristan’s first birthday, adding yet another joyful milestone to their close-knit family.
From a very public divorce and harrowing health struggles to remarriage and welcoming his third child, Tarek has experienced a rollercoaster of life events in less than a decade. O Flip or Flop The star’s experiences are shared in her recent book, Flip Your Life: How to Find Opportunity in Dangerous Situations – in Real Estate, in Business, and in Life.
“I needed a lot of self-help, you know? Throughout my life, there have been a lot of struggles. People don’t know what I went through and that’s why this book is important.” he told ET in Februaryoozing the list of complications that arose in his life, including a diagnosis of ADHD, a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, anxiety issues, sleep problems, substance abuse, thyroid cancer, and testicular cancer.
He continued: “I was addicted to opioids for a year because of back surgery. So these are a lot of problems that I’ve faced in my life, and you know, today I’m thriving, right? I’m healthier, I’m better than I’ve ever been, so I’ve managed to get here just by working and taking one step at a time. And there are so many people out there in a difficult situation. , and they can get out of it. They just need hope, right? Turn your life around gives people hope to start building a better future.”
Tarek says he wrote Turn your life around to provide the book he needed when he was 20 years old. “When I was writing this book, I was thinking about 20-year-old Tarek, what was the book I needed when I was at my lowest point?
Reflecting on that period of his life, Tarek recalled how he was “drowning all day, every day, with stress, anxiety, worry, (wondering) what (the future) will be like. What am I going to do? Where am I?” I’m going to go? Why am I gaining so much weight? Why can’t I stop drinking?
“The day I graduated high school, I was thriving. I was in great shape. I was an athlete, and less than a year later, I completely destroyed my life,” he shared. “I gained 30 pounds, my clothes didn’t fit (and) I became a depressed alcoholic. I stopped hanging out with my friends. And I was really lucky to get out of that.”
After residing in what Tarek calls a “halfway house” for several months following his separation from Christina, he says he intended to improve his marriage. But in 2017, Christina moved in with Ant, who she was married to from 2018 to 2021.
“(In) 2017, I was alone, I was getting divorced, I didn’t have my family with me, and this wasn’t the life I dreamed of,” Tarek told ET. “That wasn’t the life I wanted. So by accepting the fact that I had that life and I wasn’t happy with it, it gave me the impetus to start rebuilding my life. And today I’m married to Heather. (I) love her very much, right? I have Tristan, he’s already a year old, I can’t believe it. Today I’m living the life I wanted years ago, right? It took work.”
Tarek married Heather Rae in October 2021, and the couple welcomed son Tristan Jay in January 2023.
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