Proud stepmom. Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young) is setting the record straight on her dynamic with her stepchildren, whom her husband, Tarek El Moussa, shares with ex-wife Christina Hall (née Haack).“I’ve been a staple in their lives for a long time.
And I worked really hard to have a strong relationship with them from the very beginning and be a good stepmom to them and their happiness is so important to me,” the Selling Sunset personality, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly of her relationship with stepdaughter Taylor, 12, and stepson Brayden, 7.Heather — who wed the Flipping 101 With Tarek El Moussa personality, 41, in 2021 — also addressed online critics who claim that she favors her and Tarek’s 4-month-old son, Tristan, over her stepchildren.“I don’t favor any of the children more than the others.
They’re all important to me and I love them so much. And I wouldn’t be a mommy if I didn’t have Taylor and Brayden,” the California native said, adding that her husband shares joint custody of his kids with Hall, 39. “The truth is we have them 50 percent of the time and I don’t see them as much.
And when we have them, we are busy. I’m not thinking about taking photos and videos … we have sports, we have tutoring, we have a strict bedtime.”The model explained that she sometimes shares more Instagram photos of Tristan because she is with him all day, whereas the older children have school and extracurricular activities.“It doesn’t mean that I’m not with my other kids as much [or] I don’t love them as much, but I just have more time with Tristan because I’m home with him,” she said. “People don’t understand my relationship with Taylor and Brayden.
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