Reflecting on her journey. Heather Rae El Moussa (née Young) wants to continue to shed light on the challenges of getting pregnant after becoming a mom for the first time earlier this year.“There’s so many issues that aren’t talked about.
It can be a stressful [and] sad thing that women go through. There are many girls in my life that had miscarriages or had IVF issues and it wasn’t talked about and I know they felt really alone,” the reality star, 35, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, June 6. “So [since] I have a platform to discuss things — I’d rather share things to help other women than keep it private.”Heather, who welcomed son Tristan with Tarek El Moussa in January, recalled sharing her personal ups and downs with IVF in an effort to help others.“I know it did touch other women, and I know that I helped other women through it.
I’m always here to help and that’s what I want to use my platform to help as many people as possible. [I was] lucky I got pregnant naturally, but I do have embryos saved and we were planning on implanting the embryos and then I got pregnant with Tristan,” she shared. “That was a huge shock.
I did not think I’d be able to get pregnant on my own. And now I have those embryos and who knows what’s going to happen.”After exchanging vows with Tarek, 41, in 2021, the pair announced in July 2022 that they were expecting their first child together.
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